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The Bostwick Gun and Sporting Goods Co., 1528 
Arapahoe St., Denver Col. 
W. H. Longdon, Bridgeport, Conn. 
goods. 
New York Condensed Milk Co., 71 Hudson Street, 
New York€ity. Condensed products. 
Oneida Community, Kenwood, N.Y. Traps. : 
Metz & Schloerb, Oshkosh, Wis. Moccasins, hunting 
shoes, etc. j 
Novelty Cutlery Co., Canton, O. Pocket cutlery, ink 
erasers, etc. ‘ : 
M. A. Shipley, 432 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa., 
Fishing, tackle. i sane 
Willis Arms & Cycle Co., Kansas City, Mo. Bicycles, 
athletic and sportsmen’s goods. 
Sportmen’s 

AN APPEAL TO WYOMING PEOPLE. 
Dr. Frank Dunham sends out this letter 
from his office at Lander. He writes me he 
is sending several hundred copies of it and 
that he hopes to send in a large number of 
applications as a result. 
DEAR Sir: I desire to interest you in a 
subject which, I think, will play no small 
part in the welfare of our State. I refer to 
the protection of our game. 
The custom of taking a hunting trip each 
year is one whch is being followed almost 
universally by the people of the Eastern 
States, and more especially the wealthy 
classes. 
Their attention is turning more and more 
to the mountains and the pursuit of big 
game. This class of tourist travel is eagerly 
sought after by railroads, hotels and outfit- 
ting parties as it means no small amount of 
money to all concerned. 
No one will question the fact that to-day 
Wyoming has more big game, especially 
elk, than any other State in the union. The 
Eastern tourists know this and are turning 
their attention this way. 
Our State legislature passed, at the last 
session, a good game law, and one which, 
if properly enforced, will protect our game 
for all time. 
The League of American Sportsmen was 
organized in New York City about a year 
ago, for the purpose of enforcing, with the 
utmost vigor, such laws as have been enact- 
ed in the various States, for the protection 
and preservation of game birds, song birds, 
deer, elk, antelope, fish, and in short all 
wild things which do no harm to man. The 
annual dues are only $1, and of that amount 
60 per cent. is returned to the State organi- 
zation for use in game protection at home. 
You can readily see that unless the laws are 
enforced it will be but a short time until the 
game which is now plentiful will have 
joined the bison and become only a mem- 
ory. Our children possibly may be per- 
mitted to look at stunted and scrawny speci- 
mens in some public or private park, but 
not at wild herds as we see them. By lim- 
iting the killing to legal numbers the evil 
day may perchance never come. Instead 
of a depletion an increase of game of all 
kinds may easily be accomplished. 
RECREATION —— Rees 
The sportsmen and naturalists of the East 
are in hearty sympathy with us in this mat- 
ter, and are working harder for the protec- — 
tion of our game than we are. Now let us 
put forth our very best efforts and at least 
meet our Eastern friends half way. 
have now in Wyoming something over 100 
members of the L. A. S. Last December 
I was honored by an election to the position 
of Chief Warden, and I should like to see _ 
We 
the membership reach 1,000 during my term 
of office. 
That will require lots of hustling on all 
sides, and I must have the aid of all friends 
of game protection, all over the State. I 
am devoting several hours every day to the 
work. May I not look for assistance? The 
small sum of $1 will not be missed by you 
and will, when coupled with your assistance 
and influence, help us greatly in our work. 
The L. A. S. is an assured success. No 
One need look upon it as an experiment 
and await for results. Its success and power 
for doing good is only to be measured by 
the support it gets from those who should 
aid it. 
operation, 
I shall be pleased to furnish you whatever 
blanks and literature you may wish. 
Any information you may want on the 
subject will be cheerfully furnished at any 
time. Sincerely yours, 
Frank Dunham, Chief Warden, Lander, 
Wyo. 

The protection of game and fish and 
song birds and the cultivation of our wild 
flowers has been my hobby for years, and 
my application for membership in L. A. S. 
has been ready for some time. I am hold- 
ing it to induce others to join. Your ef- 
forts in this direction are commendable and 
should have the financial and moral sup- 
port not only of every true sportsman jn 
the land, but of every lover of the beauti- 
ful and charming in nature. To fully real- 
ize the difference between a forest filled 
with song birds—to appreciate the merest 
twitter-—-one should spend a few weeks on 
the desert, where desolation is made more 
desolate by the absence of bird voices. 
Let us have your application and co- 
No doubt you have been overwhelmed 
with “suggestions” as to the best means to 
accomplish the end. Therefore I shall not 
suggest, but will tell you what I favor. 
First, a gun license of $3 a year. 
Second, no license issued to anyone un- 
der 18 years of age. 
Third, the license not to be issued to 
market hunters. 
Fourth, applications for license to be 
signed by 3 reputable citizens, as guarantors 
of moral acts of the applicant. 
Fifth, robbing the nests of any wild bird 
to be made a misdemeanor. 
Explanatory: First, all kinds of guns, air 
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