104 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



"No less encouraging is the big game provision. Deer, 



ELK, ANTELOPE AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP ARE PROTECTED WITH- 

 OUT qualification, but after 1920 one deer may be killed 

 between October 15th and 21st. Hunting with dogs at that 

 time will be prohibited, and one caught with dogs will be 

 fined from $200.00 to $500.00, or six months imprisonment. 



"The game commissioner may acquire public hunting 

 grounds, and may also designate game sanctuaries. 



"All in all, the bill is a triumph ! Just as soon as I can get 

 a copy I will mail it to you, together with copies of the old 

 law and I believe you will be most satisfied at our progress. 

 It has been a long fight, and at times a discouraging one, 

 and I am sure that the change never would have taken place 

 without your untiring leadership." 



As usual, our fellow-workers in the West give us more 

 credit for our assistance than we deserve. Reduced to its 

 lowest common denominator, it is the men in the trenches 

 who win these victories! Let there be no mistake about 

 that. 



The great victory briefly but forcefully described above 

 does indeed place Utah "on the map," in the foremost line 

 of game protecting states. Think of it! At one grand 

 stroke the sage grouse, the sharp-tailed grouse, ptarmigan, 

 quail and deer are swept out of the list of killable game, — 

 where they had been booked for extermination according 

 to law, — and put in line for protection and increase on a 

 continuing basis. 



We believe that it was all right to give the State Game 

 Commissioner power to open hunting, in given areas, when 

 the game becomes sufficiently numerous to justify it. Hav- 

 ing talked with a great many Utah sportsmen and game 

 wardens, in 1915, I know well their anxieties regarding the 

 future, and their fear that their deer and upland game birds 

 were going to be exterminated. The people of Utah can be 



