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not be known in Washington; but up to date we have re- 

 frained from calling for a hundred thousand signatures. 



The bill now before Congress has been framed in strict 

 accordance with the printed "Hornaday Plan" that was 

 placed before the people of the West, and approved by sev- 

 en Governors and many hundred leading citizens. We can 

 not deviate from the terms of that plan without forfeiting 

 our support! For this reason, we will beg that our bill 

 may not be seriously amended by the introduction of new 

 features. 



We now place all our cards upon the table, face up ; and 

 there is no "joker" in the pack. When we say that we will 

 not encroach on the rights of the cattle men and the sheep 

 men, and will not try to occupy lands suitable for grazing 

 or agriculture, we mean just that! The U. S. Forest Serv- 

 ice is not looking for new crops of trouble with the grazing 

 industries. 



But the opportunity to render a great service to the 

 people of the West is here! If this bill passes substan- 

 tially as it stands, it will mean the development of great 

 game-breeding centres in more than a score of states where- 

 in big game now is fast approaching the vanishing point. 

 It will mean, in about ten years from now, a great increase 

 in big game (especially deer) that may be hunted and killed, 

 and eaten. 



It will utilize and render productive a hundred great 

 areas of wild, rough and remote mountain territory that 

 now is of no earthly benefit to anyone save the most adven- 

 turous camping-tourist and angler, with a slight possibility 

 of game. 



In the pages that follow we will discuss separately sev- 

 eral subjects that bear directly upon this proposal; and we 

 will produce exhibits of various kinds that need to be taken 

 into the reckoning. Finally, we will show the extent and 

 character of the support that has been pledged to this cause 

 in advance of its presentation to Congress. 



