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greater pecuniary aid from the State 

 in his highly important work. 



3. We favor a greater degree of care 

 in the use of streams as sewers, and 

 call attention to the fact that outside 

 of any question of sport or beauty, the 

 very health and lives of the people of 

 the State are endangered bv the pollution 

 of the streams. 



4. We favor the passage of a law and 

 an appropriation to furnish farmers 

 with eggs of quail and other desirable 

 insectivorous birds for the propagation 

 of the several useful species. 



5. We favor a resident hunter's 

 license of at least $1 per annum, and 

 call attention to the right to have the 

 money so collected to be expended 

 upon the preservation of the forests 

 and streams, and the propagation and 

 protection of game and fish. 



6. We call attention to the fact that 

 the license taxes collected from hunters 

 in the years 1909 and 1910 has never 

 been appropriated to the purpose for 

 which such funds are usually expended. 



7. We favor a limit to the number 

 of fish that may be caught in a single 

 day by a hook fisherman, not to ex- 

 ceed 25 trout and 25 bass. 



8. We favor a law protecting the 

 fish of the sucker variety, and all other 

 fishes from the gig or spear. It dis- 

 turbs the fish at night and gives the 

 opportunity to slay other kinds. Be- 

 sides the sucker is one of the most 

 harmless, as well as one of the most 

 useful, fishes of the waters of this 

 State. 



9. We favor establishment of forest 

 preserves. 



10. We commend the good work of 

 the national fish hatchery in West Vir- 

 ginia, and the work of the United 

 States Fish Commission in this State. 



11. We acknowledge ourselves un- 

 der many obligations to the good peo- 

 ple of Fairmount for the royal enter- 

 tainment afiforded the present meeting 

 of this association. 



land city with a population of more 

 than 6,000 and catch any number of 

 large salmon of all varieties is some- 

 thing that can be enjoyed right in this 

 section of Washington. Puyallup is 

 the city and if the run of salmon con- 

 tinues she will also be prominent as a 

 fishing centre as well as the hub of 

 agriculture. 



As "fishy" as the story sounds, it is 

 nevertheless a fact, and should one care 

 to venture to Puyallup in quest of the 

 king of fish a well-filled string would 

 be the result. The fish come from the 

 Puyallup River through Clark's Creek 

 and into "Big Ditch," which crosses 

 Meridian street, the main thorough- 

 fare of the valley metropolis. The run 

 is so large that at times the water in 

 places bubbles like an eddy. 



Persons in the vicinity of the stream 

 have taken many a catch to their homes 

 and there will undoubtedly be a slump 

 in sales in the fish market as long as 

 the run continues. The appearance of 

 the salmon was discovered by Carl 

 Hill, a city surveyor, who was making 

 an investigation of the condition of 

 the ditch. 



More Cats. 



SALMON-FISHING IN STREETS 

 OF A CITY. 



To be able to stand on the sides of 

 the principal business street of an in- 



I noticed a few months ago that in 

 half a dozen reports of shipwrecks oc- 

 curring in a comparatively brief period 

 the newspapers, or some of them, in- 

 variably told of the rescue of the ship's 

 cat. One of the ship news reporters 

 explained this when I asked him if all 

 ships carried cats. 



"There was one of those wrecked 

 ships that carried a cat," he said, "and 

 the crew went back to save it. I made 

 the cat the feature of my story, while 

 the other ship news reporters failed 

 to mention the cat and were called 

 down by their city editors for being 

 beaten. The next time there was a 

 shipwreck there was no cat, but the 

 other ship news reporters did not wish 

 to take chances and put the cat in. I 

 wrote a true report, leaving out the 

 cat, and then I was called down for 

 being beaten. Now when there is a 

 shipwreck all of us always put in a 

 cat."— The World. 



