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often travel long distances without seeing game 

 or tasting meat. 



Personally, I regard these two classes of 

 white men as not very destructive to large 

 game, and would place in the same category 

 the few sportsmen, who visit this far-away 

 country in the hope of securing a few good 

 heads, and who do not kill females or young 

 animals except when it is necessary to do so, 

 in order to get meat. 



It is undoubtedly the discovery of gold 

 which has caused, and will continue to bring 

 about, a very wholesale destruction of game in 

 Alaska and the Yukon, for miners collect in 

 camps, wherever gold is found, and as they are 

 always ready to pay a good price for fresh 

 meat they give employment to meat-hunters, 

 who are able to make a good deal of money 

 by killing game and selling the meat at the 

 nearest mining town or camp. Such men, of 

 course, kill everything — wild sheep ewes and 

 lambs, moose and caribou cows and calves — 

 and soon deplete large areas of country of 

 game. 



