76 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENT. 

 From the Arizona Republican (Phoenix) : 



Why should game be protected? Of what use is it, except to furnish 

 pleasure to a few cranks? It is bound to go anyhow, so why delay the 

 process? 



The mental processes of the man who asks these questions are gen- 

 erally expressed in terms of dollars only. Accordingly, they had best 

 be answered in the same coin. 



Of what use is game? Ten million dollars a year each for Arizona 

 and New Mexico. This is a conservative estimate of what the game 

 animals, birds and fish of these two states ought to bring in when prop- 

 erly handled. Several states which have awakened to the value of these 

 resources are already realizing more than this, and one of them, Maine, 

 is hardly larger than two or three southwestern counties. 



Everybody knows that the game resources are at present too much 

 decimated to figure as a statewide economic asset. How can they be in- 

 creased enough to bring ten millions a year? The answer given to this 

 question by the game experts of the U. S. Forest Service is, they claim, 

 not based on a theory, but on facts. It has been done, and the method 

 used by the states that have done it are clear and plain. Briefly, this 

 method consists in good laws well enforced, in public education, in judi- 

 cious artificial propagation, especially of fish, and in setting aside as game 

 refuges all waste lands not otherwise used or needed, and stocking these 

 refuges with valuable species which will multiply and overflow into ad- 

 joining regions. 



The method of increasing game as herein described, and especially a 

 plan for game refuges on waste lands, is now generally spoken of as 

 The Hornaday Plan, after Dr. W. T. Hornaday, the most active pro- 

 ponent of better game protection, who lectured here recently. 



INDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS. 



State and Federal Officers. 



Sidney P. Osborn, Secretary of State, Phoenix 



Mit Simms, State Treasurer, Phoenix 



Henry D. Ross, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Phoenix 



G. M*. Willard, State Game Warden, Phoenix 



D. E. Pettis, Deputy Game Warden, Phoenix 

 O. Hicks, Deputy State Game Warden, Douglas 

 C. O. Case, Supt. of Public Instruction, Phoenix 

 Thos. E. Campbell, State Tax Commissioner, Phoenix 

 W. P. Geary, Corporation Commissioner, Phoenix 



Sam B. Bradner, Secy.. Live Stock Sanitary Board, Phoenix 



E. B. Ormond, Deputy State Auditor, Phoenix 

 T. B. Ruth, Forest Ranger, Chiricahua 



Robt. A. Rodgers, Forest Ranger, Camille 



Neil Erickson, Forest Ranger, Dos Cabezas 



T. Earl Wzider, Forest Ranger, Greer 



Arthur H. Zachan, Forest Supervisor, Portal 



Chas. H. Jennings, Forest Supervisor, Snowflake 



Charley Hoffman, Government Hunter, Forest Service, Springerville 



W. L. Scofield, Forest Service, Springerville 



