1873-1917 



I /AR to trie soutbwest, at the northern edge of the 

 ■*- Sonoran region, in the year 1915 a gallant young 

 spirit enlisted in the newly-developed New Mexican 

 army or wild lire defenders. Miles W. Burford, 

 from Indianapolis, Indiana, took up bis snare of the 

 new white man s burden, and bore it bravely down 

 to the day of his death. 



He was the first president of the New Mexico 

 Game Protective Association, which was the firm 

 amalgamation of all the local associations of sportsmen 

 in tbat state into one harmonious and powerful body. 



From the day of its birth, tnat Association set 

 up a line of bigb ideals, and from 1915 down to tbe 

 present hour it has not for a moment lost sigat of 

 any one of tbem. It became a model and a pace-set- 

 ter for otber states, and justice demands tbe statement 

 tbat it owes mucb of its success to its first President. 



As a tribute to bis memory, and a lasting me- 

 morial, by petition of tbe sportsmen of New Mexico 

 tbe most famous wild-fowl resort in tbat state was 

 officially recbristened Lake Burford. 



