MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



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S'o I say, as the oldest game warden in service in Montana, that in the last six 

 years there has been more good work done under the commission form than in the 

 14 yeai's previous to their appointment. I can truthfully say in my 20 years' 

 sei'vice, though at times it has been hard, on the whole it has been pleasant. 



I have always been in love with my work and always worked for the best 

 interests of the department. I have made many arrests in these 20 years of 

 service. Fines, sales of confiscations and license fees collected have amounted 

 to no small figure. I have closely followed the Golden Rule in making arrests 

 and instead of making enemies for the game department, I have tried to make 

 friends. 



In 1910 I believed that increase of the northern herd was becoming too large 

 for the feeding area. I wrote Henry Avare, state game warden at that time, that 

 if he could interest the rod and gun clubs of the state in placing elk where condi- 

 tions were adapted for them, I could catch them for about $5 per head F. O. B. 

 stock yards at the VanDyke ranch near the town of Gardiner. 



After receiving favorable replies from the Hamilton and Stevensville clubs I 

 caught 100 head on the Hoppe ranch adjacent to the national park and shipped 

 them to Hamilton and Stevensville on the Bitter Root branch of the Northern 

 Pacific railroad. This brought requests from all over the United States and in the 

 following five years we shipped out of Park county more than 5,000 head of elk. 



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This catch of coyotes, taken in the one month of November by E. B. jyarren lia.s been 



responsible for the destruction of many came birds and animals. This is but another 



demonstration of the effective u'orl: being done by predatory animal htinters. 



