Posing In Yellowstone Park. 



Work of State Commission. 



Montana has a game law which conserves the game. It is strictly enforced 

 under a state game and fish commission. The commission, the warden and his 

 deputies as well as the fish hatcheries are sustained solely from the receipts of 

 sales of game licenses and from fines and confiscated game anil weapons. It is 

 empowered to add to the game by propagation and has done much "planting" in 

 counties which afforded good feeding grounds, but from which the big game had 

 been thinned by too persistent hunting. Its fish hatcheries produce millions of 

 fry, distributed by the commissioners' fish car which is sent to all quarters of 

 the state during the year. 



There are two state hatcheries, one at Anaconda, on Georgetown lake, and 

 the other at Somers, on Flathead lake. A hatchery will shortly be opened in Park 

 county. The government maintains a hatchery at Bozeman in Gallatin county. 

 Twenty millions of fry of eastern brook, spotted and rainbow trout and grayling 

 are annually sent out to re-stock the streams and lakes. The supply is con- 

 siderably augumented by private hatcheries. Accordingly, practically every stream 

 in the state affords good sport. 



Salmon Being Tried. 



The game and fish districts of Montana are not subject to private leasing by 

 native or loreign residents as is the case in some of the eastern and Pacific coast 

 states. All the vast territory is open to the public, subject only to the provisions 

 of an exceedingly liberal game law. 



Through exchanges with Washington hatcheries, a considerable number of 

 sock-eye salmon have been obtained and planted in land-locked lakes of Montana. 



