THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 7 
and anglers’ licenses. Instead of ‘“‘a few hundred war- 
dens” the game department employs from thirty-six 
to fifty wardens, depending on the season of the year. 
The fund is expended through a commission of four 
members and the Governor. 
We call attention to this paragraph simply in the 
hope that it will be read by some who have fallen mto 
the common error of believing that the taxpayers of 
the state are paying for the sport of hunting and 
angling. | 
THE OREGON SPORTSMEN’S LEAGUE. 
The Oregon Sportsmen’s League, which was in an- 
nual session in Portland in December, adopted ‘THE 
SPORTSMAN as its official organ. ‘The League and this 
publication stand for the same things. Both are fight- 
ing for cleaner and more wholesome sport, for a greater 
development of the idea of game protection, and in- 
creased efficiency in all departments of the fish and 
game service to the end that our streams and forests 
may abound in fish and game. The league has a splen- 
did set of officers, who are actively co-operating with 
the gamé department to bring about the highest type 
of sportsmanship in Oregon. Our state stands: pre- 
eminent as a hunters’ and anglers’ paradise. Eternal 
vigilance, however, is the price of keeping it so. 

GAME SANCTUARIES COMING NEXT. 
On January 4th, there was introduced in Congress 
a bill which has for its object the setting aside of isolated 
sections in our national forests for the purpose of prop- 
agating our larger game, such as deer, mountain goat, 
