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O Ca? I SPORTSMEN 

Ten thousand deer were killed in Maine during the past open season. 
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Wyoming is the only state in the Union where mountain sheep may 
be killed. 
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Elk may be killed lawfully in only three states—Montana, Wyo- 
ming and Idaho. 
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In the National Forests of Oregon and Washington there are 500 
miles of roads and 4,600 miles of trails. 
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An Anglers’ Club was organized at Tillamook in February with a 
membership of 80 enthusiastic sportsmen. 
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A dozen years ago a few dozen Chinese pheasants were liberated in 
Ontario, British Columbia. Now there are thousands of these game 
birds in that country. 
The Fisheries Bureau of the United States distributed more than 
3,500,000,000 baby fish and more than 500,000,000 eggs to the inland 
waters of the country last year. 
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.Execlusive of his attorney fees and the cost of his hunting license, 
which was confiscated, it cost Fayette Mettie, of Ukiah, Oregon, $119.60 
to kill three deer out of season. 
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California paid out $60,000:in bounties for mountain lions or cougars 
at $20 each during 1916. Statistics show that one of these animals, 
which are numerous in Oregon, will kill 50 deer a year. 
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Felix Sparks, a rancher on the upper McKenzie River, near Blue 
River, lost eight young pigs on the night of March 5. A cougar got 
into the pen and before Mr. Sparks was awakened and could drive the 
varmint off he had killed the pigs and had eaten several of them. 
