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  HUNTING 
  LICENSES. 
  

  

  (1) 
  Receipts. 
  — 
  The 
  receipts 
  from 
  licenses 
  exceeded 
  110,000 
  in 
  nine 
  

   States: 
  Colorado, 
  Idaho, 
  Illinois, 
  Maine, 
  a 
  Michigan, 
  Minnesota, 
  North 
  

   Dakota, 
  Washington, 
  and 
  Wisconsin. 
  Notwithstanding 
  the 
  difference 
  

   in 
  the 
  fees 
  charged, 
  a 
  nominal 
  fee 
  of 
  $1 
  for 
  resident 
  licenses 
  and 
  an 
  

   average 
  fee 
  of 
  $10 
  to 
  $25 
  for 
  nonresident 
  licenses, 
  the 
  amount 
  ordi- 
  

   narily 
  collected 
  from 
  residents 
  is 
  far 
  in 
  excess 
  of 
  that 
  received 
  from 
  

   nonresidents. 
  Thus, 
  in 
  Wisconsin 
  in 
  1903 
  the 
  returns 
  from 
  resident 
  

   licenses 
  ($78,161) 
  were 
  more 
  than 
  six 
  times 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  those 
  from 
  non- 
  

   resident 
  licenses 
  ($12,005): 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  where 
  the 
  amounts 
  were 
  

   $15,184 
  a 
  and 
  $746, 
  respectively, 
  the 
  resident 
  were 
  nearly 
  twenty-one 
  

   times 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  the 
  nonresident; 
  and 
  in 
  Illinois, 
  the 
  amounts 
  being 
  

   $95,000 
  and 
  $3,750, 
  respect! 
  vely, 
  more 
  than 
  twenty 
  -five 
  times 
  as 
  large. 
  

  

  (2) 
  Number 
  of 
  licensed 
  hunters. 
  — 
  In 
  the 
  following 
  table 
  are 
  shown 
  

   the 
  number 
  of 
  licenses 
  issued 
  (indicating 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  licensed 
  hun- 
  

   ters) 
  and 
  the 
  amounts 
  received 
  therefrom 
  (see 
  PL 
  V) 
  in 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  10 
  

   States 
  for 
  which 
  statistics 
  are 
  available 
  for 
  both 
  resident 
  and 
  nonresi- 
  

   dent 
  licenses: 
  

  

  Number 
  of 
  Licensed 
  Hunters 
  and 
  Receipts 
  from 
  Licenses, 
  1903. 
  

  

  State. 
  

  

  Resident. 
  

  

  Nonresi- 
  

   dent. 
  

  

  Total 
  

   number. 
  

  

  Total 
  

   fees. 
  

  

  Colorado 
  

  

  15, 
  184 
  

  

  12, 
  370 
  

  

  95, 
  000 
  

  

  19, 
  061 
  

  

  8,910 
  

  

  3,744 
  

  

  11,574 
  

  

  14, 
  982 
  

  

  78, 
  164 
  

  

  299 
  

  

  34 
  

   267 
  

   250 
  

  

  45 
  

   333 
  

  

  84 
  

  

  123 
  

  

  («) 
  

  

  659 
  

  

  158 
  

  

  15, 
  218 
  

  

  12, 
  637 
  

  

  95,250 
  

  

  19, 
  106 
  

  

  9,243 
  

  

  3,828 
  

  

  11, 
  697 
  

  

  14, 
  982 
  

  

  78, 
  823 
  

  

  457 
  

  

  $15,930 
  

   14, 
  105 
  

   98, 
  750 
  

   15,421 
  

   14, 
  205 
  

  

  4,584 
  

   11,756 
  

   14,982 
  

   90,169 
  

  

  8,199 
  

  

  

  

  

  

  Nebraska 
  

  

  North 
  Dakota 
  

  

  Washington 
  

  

  Wisconsin 
  

  

  Wyoming 
  

  

  

  Total 
  

  

  259, 
  288 
  

  

  1,953 
  

  

  261,241 
  

  

  288, 
  101 
  

  

  

  a 
  Nonresident 
  licenses 
  inseparable 
  from 
  resident 
  licenses. 
  

  

  The 
  most 
  interesting 
  fact 
  brought 
  out 
  by 
  this 
  table 
  is 
  the 
  total 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  licenses 
  issued. 
  This 
  number 
  shows 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  above-mentioned 
  

   ten 
  States 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  quarter 
  of 
  a 
  million 
  hunters 
  were 
  licensed 
  during 
  

   the 
  past 
  year. 
  This 
  total, 
  however, 
  is 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  actual 
  number 
  of 
  

   hunters 
  in 
  these 
  States, 
  for 
  the 
  reason 
  that 
  in 
  Michigan 
  and 
  Wyoming 
  

   no 
  licenses 
  are 
  required 
  from 
  residents 
  for 
  anything 
  except 
  big 
  game, 
  

   and 
  in 
  Nebraska 
  and 
  Wyoming 
  a 
  resident 
  is 
  not 
  required 
  to 
  secure 
  a 
  

   license 
  unless 
  he 
  shoots 
  outside 
  his 
  own 
  county. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  State 
  which 
  shows 
  larger 
  returns 
  from 
  nonresident 
  than 
  

   from 
  resident 
  licenses 
  is 
  Wyoming, 
  which 
  has 
  a 
  very 
  high 
  nonresident 
  

   fee 
  of 
  $50, 
  and 
  requires 
  resident 
  licenses 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  persons 
  

  

  a 
  Deducting 
  the 
  fees 
  for 
  issue 
  the 
  amount 
  was 
  $9,890. 
  

  

  