THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 91 
As to the appointment of game commissioners, however, the law 
specifies that they must first ask the Board of County Commissioners 
to recommend persons for appointment on this Board of Game Com- 
mission. In case the County Commissioners do this within ten days 
after notice, the State Game Warden in Western Washington and the 
Chief Deputy Game Warden in Eastern Washington must appoint 
the person recommended, although they can remove them at the 
bottom of the page on which the appointment is made. This means 
he must immediately ask for another recommendation. 
The county game commissioners in turn appoint the game wardens 
and deputy game wardens for their respective counties, and each 
county in the state has a county game commission. The wardens 
which they appoint for their counties may be transferred in Western 
Washington by the State Game Warden to go to any other county, 
and in Eastern Washington they may be transferred by the Chief 
Deputy State Game Warden. 
The respective game commissions of the respective counties are 
charged with the work of game and game fish protection and propa- 
gation within their counties. These county game commissions can, 
subject to the approval of the State Fish Commissioner and State 
Game Warden, construct game fish hatcheries and can without his 
approval establish county game farms. Already about a dozen counties 
in the state have built their own trout hatcheries, and three o~ four 
counties in the state have their own county game farms. 
The Auditor of each county issues and sells the county hunting 
and fishing licenses, and receives from the State Auditor and sells 
the state resident and non-resident hunting and fishing licenses. 
In short, a man can go to any county auditor and buy either a 
state or county license. The county game fund gets 90 cents out of 
every dollar received for a county hunting and fishing license, and 
$1.00 out of every $5.00 received for the state hunting and fishing 
license which it sells. 
Ten per cent of the county hunting and fishing license money and 
80 per cent of the state hunting and fishing license goes into the 
state game fund. 
From the state game fund are paid the salary and traveling 
expenses of the state game warden, and chief deputy state game 
warden, and their respective office. expenses. 
Also, from the state game fund are paid the cost of construction 
of the state trout hatcheries and rearing ponds, and of the maintenance 
of the state trout hatcheries, of which Washington now has six 
hatcheries and two sets of rearing ponds. 
Also, from this fund are paid the salaries and expenses of four 
special deputy state game wardens, two of which are assigned to 
Eastern Washington and two to Western Washington. 
The reason for the appointment of these is because of the fact 
that some of the smaller counties of the state do not receive a suf- 
ficiently large game fund to properly police the county. Consequently 
they are assisted from the state game fund, for these special deputy 
game wardens can go in during those times when they are most 
needed and aid these small counties in the enforcement of the laws. 
It can be seen from this that every county in the state has both 
county or local and state police protection for the enforcement of its 
game laws. I feel justified in saying that never in the history of the 
state have the game laws been so satisfactory and on the whole so 
well observed and enforced as at the present time. 
