The Oregon Sportsman 



Volume II FEBRUARY 1914 Number 2 



THE GAME PROTECTION FUND 



FOR 1913 



Amount on hand January 1st, 1913 $ 60,777.62 



Income from Sportsmen's Licenses 



during 1913 $108,800.00 



Income from Fines and Other Sources. . . . 8,634.82 



Total Income for 1913 117,434.82 



Cash on hand, Game Protection Fund for 1913 $178,212.44 



Amount expended by Fish and Game Commission from 



January 1st, 1913, to January 1st, 1914 136,474.92 



Balance on hand January 1st, 1914 $ 41,737.52 



We print in this issue an itemized account of the hunters* 

 and anglers' licenses paid in according to the various counties of 

 the state during the past year. Also a summary of the number 

 of trout and other game fish distributed in the various counties, 

 an account of game birds liberated, a recapitulation of arrests and 

 convictions for violation of the game laws, and a summary of dis- 

 bursements from the Game Protection Fund from January 1st, 

 1913, to January 1st, 1914. 



The Sportsmen Pay the Bills. 



Occasionally we hear the remark that the Fish and Game 

 Commission is spending too much of the taxpayers' money in the 

 protection and propagation of game. The money in the Game 

 Protection Fund, which is spent in the employment of from 

 forty to fifty game wardens, the purchase and the distribution 

 of game birds, animals and game fish, is derived from the hunt- 

 ers' and anglers' licenses. Not one penny was appropriated for 

 game protection at the last session of the legislature. The Game 



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