
€INTEREST 
TO OR ry SPORTSMEN 

Deputy Game Warden J. W. Walden of La Grande reports more 
Chinese pheasants than ever in Union County. Although the present 
winter is hard on the birds, they are doing well. Farmers are feeding 
from 15 to 100 around their farms all over the county. 
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The Chinese pheasant is increasing in Utah. From an original plant 
of fifty the birds have increased to such an extent that about five thou- 
sand are now to be found in Utah County alone. Careful protection is 
given the birds by the state, the fines ranging from $75 to $125 for the 
killing of a single bird. 
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The Department of Agriculture lists the following birds as among 
the most important destroyers of grasshoppers: Quail, prairie chicken, 
sparrow hawk, nighthawk and meadow-lark. 
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At the annual meeting of the Portland Rifle Club, the following 
officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Earle Henton; 
vice-president, Norman Schmidt; secretary, J. S. Hyatt; treasurer, H. F. 
McDonald; range officer, E, D. Ritter. 
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Two farmers residing near Albany are developing a skunk farm as 
a fur industry. Recently they received twenty black skunks from Penn- 
sylvania to add to their native stock. 
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J. F. Olson trapped 17 skunks in twelve days with four traps in 
Linn County this winter. 
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Deputy Game Warden J. M. Thomas of Coos County relates that 
Thomas Story killed 29 ducks at four shots with a Remington pump gun 
on December 31. The Coos County deputy further deposes and says that 
this stunt was pulled off within 300 yards of a moving passenger train 
and many of the passengers witnessed the shooting. 
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New officers elected by the Hood River County Game Protective 
Association for the year 1917, are as follows: President, H. Garrahart; 
vice-president, Edward Button; secretary, Alva L. Day; treasurer, A. J. 
Derby; trustees, O. H. Bhouder, J. B. Hunt and Sol J. Spear. 
