STATEMENT OF INCOME AND DISBURSEMENTS 



Connected with Fur Operations Investigation 

 For Year 1941-1942 



RECEIPTS 



Sale of furs confiscated $6,063.00 



Fines assessed by Courts 3,850.00 



Total Receipts $9,913.00 



EXPENDITURES 



Cost of furs purchased by undercover 



agents $2,745.00 



Court costs deducted from fines, or paid 



by State Department 154.16 



Miscellaneous expenses: Telephone, tele- 

 grams, gas, photographing evidence, 

 transcript of court records for evi- 

 dence, postal registrations, etc 127.70 



Cold storage rental, Helena 40.50 



Total Expenditures $3,067.36 



Net Return to Department $6,845.64 



During the investigation, it was decisively 

 proved that the present beaver laws are inade- 

 quate, and that control of this valuable resource 

 requires better management than is now pos- 

 sible. Therefore, we recommend that the trap- 

 ping of all beaver be handled by the state and 

 that the pelts be sold by the state; after such 

 sale, that one-third of the gross proceeds be re- 

 turned to the landowner on whose lands the 

 beaver were taken, one-third be set aside for 

 the expenses involved in the trapping, and the 

 remaining one-third go into the Fish and Game 

 Department Fund in lieu of the ten dollar applica- 

 tion fee and the fifty-cent metal tag now in use. 



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Our game farms produce Chinese pheasants 

 and a few Chukars. 



It has been the practice until recently for 

 the Billings and Warm Springs game farms to 

 operate under one superintendent. With the de- 

 velopment of a third game farm at Fort Peck, 

 the Commission felt that greater efficiency of pro- 

 duction and planting would result if the State 

 Game Warden were made directly responsible 

 for the management of the three farms. Accord- 

 ingly, the office of Superintendent of Game Farms 

 was abolished, and responsibility for running each 

 farm was vested in a foreman. 



In 1941 ground was leased from the U. S. 

 War Department at Fort Peck for the establish- 

 ment of a new game farm. Barracks were pur- 

 chased and changed into brooder houses. The 

 most modern equipment was purchased. The elec- 

 tric brooder system was installed, thus eliminat- 

 ing the use of brood hens. V. W. Bailey, former- 

 ly superintendent of the Idaho Bird Farm at Jer- 

 ome, was employed to build and operate this new 

 unit. When completed, this farm will be capable 

 of producing 20 to 25 thousand Chinese pheasants 

 annually. The cost of construction has been com- 

 paratively low. 



In speaking of game farms one must bear 

 in mind that the most useful function of a plant 

 is the production of birds for restocking areas. It 



