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THE GAME BREEDER 



law and subject to fine and imprison- 

 ment. After he has secured his license 

 he cannot sell game therefrom, or ship 

 it to any other point until he has fur- 

 nished the game and fish commissioner 

 with an invoice showing the amount, 

 kind and number of the game to be 

 sold or shipped; the date taken and 

 such other information as will help the 

 commissioner in keeping track of the 

 particular kind of game coming from a 

 game preserve. This is true whether 

 he sells the game or merely donates it 

 to another, the object of the law be- 

 ing that the game and fish authorities 

 of the State may be given full and com- 

 plete notice of what particular game is 

 sold, so that game belonging to the 

 people cannot be confused with that 

 owned by private individuals. Under 

 this system the people cannot lose any 

 rights or suffer through their game be- 

 ing taken and sold as the property of 

 individuals owning game preserves. 



Experience has shown that it is far 

 better to permit any legitimate traffic 

 in game than to attempt to eliminate 

 all sale and traffic and thus to compel 

 persons, who are not in a position to 

 take their game but insist upon having 

 it, to assist the market hunter and the 

 game hog in his unlawful depredations 

 upon all varieties of game animals. 

 Licensed lakes are controlled in prac- 

 tically the same manner, all of which 

 are listed with the game and fish com- 

 missioner, and he is at all times ap- 

 prised of what is going on in regard 

 to sale, donations and the shipping of 

 game and fish. 



In addition to the matters spoken of, 

 the law provides as a compensation for 

 its permission in allowing the main- 

 taining of such parks and lakes that 

 the owners thereof shall donate to the 

 State at such times as the commissioner 

 may make demand ten per cent, of 

 the increase of the game or fish so 

 held during any one calendar year. This 

 constitutes one of the greatest benefits 

 to the State so far as replenishing its 

 supply of game and fish is concerned, 

 without cost or inconvenience. The 

 State merely for the privilege it has 

 granted receives a fair per cent, of the 

 increase in licensed parks and lakes. 



Of the many parks maintained in 

 Colorado a few are ■ deserving of men- 

 tion. Mr. Barrett Littlefield of Slater 

 has for years maintained exclusively 

 an elk park and has year after year 

 been enabled to supply the markets 

 of Denver, as well as other cities in this 

 and other States, with the very best 

 of elk meat, which is even better than 

 that of the wild elk for the reason 

 that the same scientific breeding of 

 these animals is conducted by Mr. Lit- 

 tlefield as is conducted by stock men 

 of the State in raising cattle. 



Perhaps the largest deer preserve in 

 the State is that of Glen Beulah Park 

 Association near DeBeque, on what is 

 known as the western slope of the 

 Rocky Mountains, wherein are main- 

 tained a good many hundred deer. This 

 preserve covers a great many square 

 miles of area and is the natural home 

 of the deer. They are allowed to run 

 in their native haunts. The members 

 of this association are governed by 

 rules regulating the taking of game, 

 but each is allowed to take at the 

 proper season of the year a reasonable 

 amount of game for himself. 



This fact demonstrates another bene- 

 fit of the preserve system, and that is, 

 a single preserve alone will accommo- 

 date a very great number of sportsmen 

 of our State, who were it not for the 

 game preserve would necessarily go 

 out on the public range and take their 

 share of the game belonging to the 

 people at large. 



Another large preserve in the State 

 is one maintained near Salido belong- 

 ing to W. H. Pigg. In this preserve 

 are maintained a large number of elk, 

 deer, mountain sheep and antelope. Mr. 

 Pigg does not maintain the park so 

 much for the purpose of killing game 

 as he does for the building up of large 

 herds of each of these varieties, merely 

 for his own satisfaction and for the 

 pleasure it gives him in showing the 

 sights within the preserve to visiting 

 friends and travelers. Under his pres-. 

 ent system with the success he has and 

 the constant increase in his herds it 

 will not be long until he will be in a 

 position to supply a very large market 

 or to make some other disposition of 



