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RECREATION. 



the West That part of the North Platte 

 where fishing is best is not easily reached. 

 It winds through high mountains, the wa- 

 ter is deep and swift and the stream wide. 

 We had grouse and fish, and saw wolves, 

 coyotes, bobcats, pine martens and other 

 animals. Our camps were generally en- 

 joyable. At night, high up in the moun- 

 tains, we slept out in the open, rolled in 

 blankets or with the tent over us. We 

 were gone 2 weeks, and enjoyed the trip 

 husrely. 



Frank W. Henry, Greeley, Colo. 



A GOOD GAME COUNTRY NOW. 



Southeastern Alaska is now well known 

 as a good game country ; so was the East at 

 one time. Alaska also will be known be- 

 fore many years as once a good country for 

 game. 



Snow begins to fall ' about the end of 

 October, and then, say about December, 

 when everything is covered with a heavy 

 mantle of snow the market hunter sallies 

 forth, white man or Indian. The deer 

 have been driven down to the beaches of 

 the islands and all that is necessary is to 

 paddle along the beach and shoot down 

 the game at close range ; bucks, does and 

 fawns, it is all the same. The poor animals 

 stand huddled together with no place of 

 escape open to them, for if they take to the 

 woods they go only a few yards before they 

 are in a snow drift, and thus fall easy vic- 

 tims to the butchers. Thus it keeps on 

 until the snow leaves in April. If there 

 were protection for does and fawns it 

 would mean a yearly increase of hundreds 

 of head, for there are many hundred does 

 killed even while carrying their young. 

 The Indians are the worst offenders of 

 all, for nothing can be done with them. 

 They are allowed to kill at all times. 



Frank Dodson, Douglas, Alaska. 



The Alaskan game law, enacted by the last 

 Congress, will stop all this if the good 

 people of that Territory will do their duty. 

 — Editor. 



IS IDAHO GOING BACKWARD? 

 Here is a letter written by Mr. F. S. 

 Merrill, chief warden of the Washington 

 Division of the L. A. S., to the Hailey, 

 Idaho, Sportsmen's club. It gives some 

 good advice : 



In one of your local newspapers I notice 

 an editorial statement that your club is 

 going to "justify its existence" by work- 

 ing in the next Legislature of your State 

 to establish market hunting. Every man 

 in your State, who does not wish to see the 

 extermination of your game animals, birds 

 and fish will hope this report is not 

 true,. As your club is organized for the 

 perpetuation of clean and healthful sport 



I do not see that it needs any other, justi- 

 fication for existence; but if it does, may 

 it not work for the preservation of the 

 game of the State, rather than for the 

 establishment of market hunting, which has 

 been the prime cause in the past of the 

 extermination of game birds, animals and 

 fishes. The market hunter wiped out in a 

 brief time the bison, America's noblest 

 game animal ; and if the market hunter 

 were permitted to hold sway, that would 

 also be true of every other game animal 

 and bird. Do not try to justify your ex- 

 istence in that way, gentlemen. One mar- 

 ket hunter can kill more game in a month 

 than all the sportsmen of your county 

 would in a year. F. S. Merrill. 



A POOR WAY TO GET MEMBERS. 



Enclosed I send you clipping from our 

 official paper, The Modern Woodman. 

 This is the largest and best fraternal insur- 

 ance organization in the world, and I am a 

 member in good standing, but I do not ap- 

 prove of securing memberships in any such 

 manner as set forth in this article. There 

 are more gentlemanly and sportsmanlike 

 ways of accomplishing the same result. 

 Neighbor Ford would better subscribe for 

 and read Recreation along with his Mod- 

 ern Woodman. He then might see the mat- 

 ter in a different light and be able to 

 help eliminate some of the hogs from the 

 Modern Woodmen, in which order there 

 are supposed to be no other than honest 

 men and "goats." 



Neighbor Ford, do not allow another 

 side hunt, for bunnies or any other game. 



I trust Recreation will find its way into 

 Pegram, to educate some of those back- 

 number brethren and make true sportsmen 

 of them. 

 A. D. Andrews, D. D. S., Seattle, Wash. 



The clipping enclosed by Dr. Andrews 



is as follows : 



With the object of reviving interest and se- 

 curing new members we had a rabbit hunt. The 

 losing side received the spoils of the day, which 

 numbered 230 bunnies. This proved a successful 

 affair as we received 14 applications for mem- 

 bership. 



SOME FLORIDA DOVE BUTCHERS. 

 What do you think of this report clipped 

 from the Leeesburg, Fla., Item? 



E. H. Mote and a party of friends went out 

 Wednesday for a dove shoot. They bagged 160. 



Unless it was a large party it must have 

 been a drive. 



W. N. Pike, Floral Park, N. Y. 



I wrote Mote asking if the report was 

 true and, if so, how many men were in 

 the party. He replied as follows : 



I beg to say there were only 4 in the 



