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est in a measure for the increase of big game, and the real maintenance 

 of sport. Here is an endorsement and petition signed by 645 names, 

 which is an exhibit of first rank importance. It has been prepared and 

 presented to a State delegation in Congress because the women of Wyo- 

 ming realize the awful disappearance of the game of their state, because 

 they desire the real conservation and increase of game, and because, as 

 the mothers of sons, they do not wish to see manly sport with the rifle 

 become an extinct pastime. 



This remarkable petition from the Wyoming State Federation of 

 Women's Clubs may well be taken as a concrete example of public inter- 

 est in the preservation and increase of game when that interest is given 

 a good opportunity to declare itself in writing. No thoughtful man will 

 doubt the possibility of producing from each one of the 48 states of 

 our nation a petition just like this one in behalf of the measure to create 

 100 preserves in our national forests for the INCREASE of game. The 

 enterprise of the Women of Wyoming in this matter may well be ac- 

 cepted as an exhibit of the interest that we know exists in every state in 

 this subject. If state petitions bearing a total of one hundred thousand 

 names are necessary to convince Congress of the breadth and depth of 

 public interest in this subject, we have only to ask for them to bring 

 them forth. 



It is a curious commentary on the sportsmen of the West that the 

 only heavily-signed petition for the increase of big game in our national 

 forests should have come to Congress from a body of women ! Perhaps 

 the men of the West were so busy in trying to find and shoot the rem- 

 nant of western game that they had not time to prepare and circulate 

 petitions such as this. 



With our hats off, we salute the Women of Wyoming! 



W. T. H. 



A PETITION* 



To all Senators and Representatives in Congress from 

 Wyoming : 



In view of the alarming and steadily increasing scarcity 

 of large game in Wyoming, the high cost of living, and the 

 threatened extinction of sport with the rifle for our sons, 

 we hereby signify our cordial endorsement of the Hornaday 

 Plan for the creation of a large number of game sanc- 

 tuaries on those portions of the national forests of the 

 West that are not suitable for agriculture or for stock-graz- 

 ing, and we respectfully request and urge that you will aid 

 in every possible way in promoting at the next session of 



*This petition was drafted and circulated by Mrs. Galen A. Fox, of 

 Cheyenne, and an energetic corps of co-workers in the Federation. 



