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fishermen thought these animals were Uving on salmon and thus injuring their 

 business. This destruction has gone on, although a warning was sent to the 

 Oregon Commission by Harold C. Bryant, who is in charge of education and 

 research for the California Commission, to the effect that it is a mistake to 

 destroy sea-lions, as the investigation carried on by the California Fish Com- 

 mission showed that the sea-lions were living largely on squids and octopi, 

 rather than salmon. 



Up to last summer, the sea-lion colonies on Three Arch Rocks Reservation 

 had never been molested to any extent since its establishment by special 



SEA-LION PUPS AND TWO FEMALES, THREE ARCH ROCKS RESERVATION, OREGON 

 Photographed by Finley and Bohlman 



proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt, on October 14, 1907. During 

 the past summer, however, the reservation has been continually raided. Mr. 

 Hunter, who was employed by the state of Oregon, told H. H. Rosenberg, of 

 Tillamook, Ore., that he killed one hundred and seven sea-lions on Three Arch 

 Rocks Reservation on his trip up the coast in the early summer. Mr. Rosenberg 

 who has a hotel at Maxwell Point opposite Three Arch Rocks, is interested in 

 seeing that the Federal law, which provides that no one shall molest or disturb 

 birds or animals on a Federal reservation, is enforced. 



As late as August 23, he sent a letter to R. C. Steele, United States Game 

 Warden, of Portland, Ore., that on Sunday, August 20, "a small power boat 

 appeared off Three Arch Rocks and anchored. A small boat containing two 

 men then left the power boat and rowed to a small rock where the sea-lions 

 usually stay. They shot about a dozen shots and then rowed on around the 



