172 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
quarter of the lake and are unusually large for one-year trout. Shovld 
a proportionate result be secured with the last fish planted, Four Mile 
Lake will be a world show place at the time of the maturity of the 
fish, two years hence. 
It is probable that the trout will have returned to the lake by 
the first of July, and as there will be no closed season for the lake, 
the sportsmen who find it convenient should not omit a chance to try 
their luck there this summer. There will most likely be a few rowboats 
on the lake; if not, a raft makes an ideal place from which to cast. 
Since my visit to the lake, a Pendleton party, consisting of Mar- 
shall Spell, Roy Buchanan and Hon. Roy W. Ritner, spent several 
hours there trying their luck; they caught thirty-seven trout, agegre- 
gating about 115 pounds weight. The fish were taken to Pendleton 
by automobile. These enthusiastic sportsmen said that rather than 
miss such an experience they would willingly have walked from 
Klamath Falls to the lake and packed fifty pounds each, and they gave 
one the impression that they meant every word of it. 
On June 22 a party consisting of F. J. Steinmetz and Dallas J 
Sidwell, of Portland, A. E, Cress, J. P. Campbell and Jesse Siemens, of 
Klamath Falls, made the trip to the lake, walking the distance that 
could not be negotiated in an automobile. They caught twenty-nine 
of the fine trout, considered the fishing unusual, and were more than 
pleased with the success of the day’s casting, yet it is evident, from 
their statements, that the trout are rapidly returning to the lake and 
that the angler must very soon be prepared with boat or raft, from 
either of which he may get angling long to be remembered. 
NATIONAL FORESTS AS GAME 
PRESERVES 
Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, has introduced the following bill 
in Congress, which has been read twice and referred to the Committee 
on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game: 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
State of American in Congress assembled: 
That for the purpose of providing breeding places for game ani- 
mals and creating an increased food supply in the national forests 
the President of the United States is hereby authorized, upon recom- 
mendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and with the approval of 
the Governors of the States in which the respective national forests 
are located, to establish, by public proclamation, certain specified areas 
within said forests as game sanctuaries or refuges which shall be 
devoted to the increase of game of all kinds naturally adapted thereto, 
but the establishment of these sanctuaries or refuges shall not pre- 
vent the Secretary of Agriculture from allowing grazing on these 
areas of cattle, sheep and other domestic animals under such regula- 
tions aS he may prescribe: Provided, that said sanctuaries or refuges 
shall be established on lands not chiefly suitable for agriculture. 
Sec. 2. That when such sanctuaries or refuges have been estab- 
lished, as provided in section 1 of this act, hunting, pursuing, poison- 
ing, killing or capturing by trapping, netting or any other means, or 
