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government revenue from angling li- ment published below. For the last few- 

 censes was- thus nearly $11,000, and years it has paid out over $30,000 a year 

 leases of angling waters brought in $50,- in wages alone, to guardians, guides and 

 000 more. other employes, and for provisions and 



This direct revenue from game fisher- other expenditure its outlay runs from 

 ies is a very small fraction, however, of $12,000 to nearly $20,000 a year. These 

 their actual money value to the Province, figures do not include the amounts paid 

 One American salmon fisherman claims out to the railways, hotels and merchants 

 that each of his fishing trips to the Prov- of the Province, which are estimated to 

 ince of Quebec costs him over $4,000. amount, for the last 25 years, to over 

 Some salmon fishermen lease private $300,000 additional, 

 waters, and when, in addition to what it The Squatteck Club (Temiscouata 

 costs them for fishing rights they pay County), spent over $14,000 in the Prov- 

 for their travelling expenses in Canada, ince in one year alone, — 1912, — and the 

 their hotel bills, guides, canoes, camps members of the organiaztion have also 

 and equipments, supplies, etc., $500 each expended upwards of $10,000, as indi- 

 is a reasonable estimate, and often it viduals, and as a club, in the erection of 

 amounts to many times that sum. At camps and other permanent improve- 

 least two hundred non-resident salmon ments upon their territory. Almost all 

 fishermen must have angled in Quebec these amounts are laid out in the imme- 

 waters last year, representing a total ex- diate vicinity of the territories leased and 

 penditure of $100,000. At least a thou- occupied by these clubs, so that the value 

 sand non-resident anglers fish in the of the system should be apparent to 

 Province of Quebec for ouananiche, everybody. Moreover, the greater num- 

 trout, bass, maskinonge, and other fish, ber of these fish and game territories are 

 and it is well within the mark to place wrild lands, often unsuited for agricul- 

 their average expenditure in the province ture, so that the money expended in their 

 at $100 each. This adds $100,000 to the vicinity is doubly welcome to the resi- 

 money value of Quebec's inland game dents of the neighborhood. Where there 

 fisheries, making a total of $200,000. are farms in the vicinity, the farmers 



Hunting licenses yielded the Province usually find a good cash market at the 

 of Quebec in the same year well over club camps for all their fresh meat, poul- 

 $10,000, and leases of hunting territories try, milk, butter and eggs, 

 amounted to some $20,000 more. In ad- It must not be supposed that all the 

 dition to such revenue, it is well known wild land of the Province is for lease to 

 that the money spent by sportsmen every sportsmen. Not every visiting sports- 

 year amounts to a very considerable sum. man nor yet every resident of the Prov- 

 It has been estimated that each of the 576 ince, is a member of a fish and game club 

 non-resident hunters who visited the nor can all of either class afford to lease 

 Province in 1913 spent on an average a private preserve. For the use of these 

 $400. This would mean a total of $230,- individual sportsmen, it is planned to re- 

 400 received by people of Quebec in one serve large tracts of fishing and hunting 

 year for their game resources alone. territory, especially in the newer parts of 



That the above estimate of the amounts the Province, which will be open to all 

 spent in this Province by non-resident anglers and hunters in the open season, 

 sportsmen is far below the actual figures without fees of any kind to residents of 

 may well be assumed when we take into the Province, except for tags for the ship- 

 consideration the expenditure of one or ment of game; while the non-resident's 

 two out of the hundreds of clubs leasing license fee will be the only charge upon 

 fishing and hunting territories from the non-resident sportsmen. 

 Province. • 



The Laurentian Fish and Game Club See Advertisements in this Issue. Ad- 

 has expended very nearly $1,000,000 in vertisers report a bigger demand than last 

 the Province, as will be seen by a state- season. Better order quickly. 



