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for the importance of educating the people in the county of protect- 
ing in every way they can the game, and I have their aid and assist- 
ance in detecting any illegal slaughter of the game during the close 
season. 
I am free to acknowledge that if every county has been given 
the assistance that I have by the people of Columbia County that the 
game of this state will be preserved to a greater extent in the future 
than it has been in the past. 
Respectfully yours, 
WILLIAM BROWN, 
Deputy Game Warden, Columbia County. 
LATE SET TE EI OE 

Deputv Game Warden William Brown, of Colunbia County 
“Caught with the Goods” 

CLACKAMAS COUNTY NOTES 
Estacada, Ore., March 10, 1916. 
Mr. Carl D. Shoemaker, State Game Warden, Portland, Oregon: 
Dear Sir—The following is a sort of a general report of game 
conditions of this locality. As to. game conditions of this locality 
during the present Winter, weil, say the game birds, especially the 
quail, were noticeably reduced in numbers by the unusually hard 
Winter. There are three varieties of quail here—the Mountain, Cali- 
fornia and Bob White. The two latter seemed to have suffered the 
