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murderous rifles and greedy appetites of the worst game destroyers 

 in North America. Soon tliey will have exterminated all the big 

 game within easy reach of their present mountain home — for it is 

 said in Banff that they cannot be controlled — and then, hey ! for 

 the new hunting ground ' reserved ' for them just south of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway main line ! 



The rival proposition is unfortunate. The location it proposes 

 is not a specially fine home for big game. It is so difficult and so 

 poorly stocked with wild life that hunting parties from Banff nearly 

 always go elsewhere. 



Let us hope that the Government of British Columbia will not 

 permit an ideal territory to be ignored and finally ruined through 

 lack of information on the part of those who should be the first to 

 stand for a thing of demonstrated value. No matter how many 

 game preserves are created elsewhere in British Columbia, Goat 

 Mountain Park is so fine and so rich in the products of Nature 

 that it deserves to be preserved for ever. 



