BULLETIN NUMBER SIX 15 



"The Sixtieth Congress made important amendments to the original 

 law. Under the new law (35 Stat., 102), approved May 11, 1908, 

 Alaska is divided at latitude 62° into two game districts, with special 

 seasons for each district; caribou on the Kenai Peninsula are pro- 

 tected until 1912; nonresidents hunting big game other than deer or 

 goats, and residents desiring to export heads or hides of big game 

 from Alaska are required to obtain licenses; authorization is also 

 given for the employment of Wardens and registration of guides. All 

 matters relating to the issue of licenses, employment of wardens, and 

 the registration of guides are placed in charge of the governor of 

 Alaska. Hereafter all correspondence on these subjects or concern- 

 ing the shipment of heads for trophies should be addressed to the 

 governor of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska. The Department of Agriculture 

 will continue as heretofore to issue permits for the collection and 

 shipment of specimens for scientific purposes and for live animals 

 and birds for exhibition or propagation. Correspondence relating to 

 these matters should be addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C." 



THE SALE OF GAME IN ALASKA. 



For a number of years the sale of game in Alaska has 

 been proceeding, not by statutory authority save for fifteen 

 days of each year, but in spite of default in prohibitory or 

 even regulatory statutes. If the reader will refer to the 

 original and also the existing game acts, the above state- 

 ment will be found correct. The testimony given in 1919 

 before the House Committee on Territories literally aston- 

 ished the natives of "the East." The present Governor of 

 Alaska made the startling admission that in 1918, while 

 he was one of the Federal commissioners for the building of 

 the Alaska Central Railway northward from Seward to 

 Fairbanks, about SIX THOUSAND POUNDS of game 

 meat were bought and served to the RAILROAD LABOR- 

 ERS at work on the road. 



And this at the rail head, with a railway line in opera- 

 tion to tidewater. 



Are the people of the United States satisfied with this 

 showing? Do they regard it as having been necessary? 



One question to be settled now, and settled for all tim< 

 is this : 



