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RECREATION. 



bread by the sweat of their brow for the 

 remainder of their lives, so much the better. 

 Those people went into this wholesale law 

 breaking with their eyes wide open. They, 

 in common with all the other cold storage 

 companies in this city, have been warned by 

 personal letters from this office time and 

 again, and nearly every cold storage com- 

 pany in the city has written me more than 

 once, stating .that they knew the law ; that 

 they had no intention of violating it ; that 

 they had no illegal game in possession and 

 that they would not receive any for storage 

 under any circumstances. 



The Arctic Freezing Company claims 

 that certain boxes and barrels were placed 

 in their charge by certain game dealers, 

 and that the Company did not know what 

 the packages contained. It was their busi- 

 ness to know what they contained, and I 

 have not the remotest doubt they did know, 

 m a general way, that every one of those 

 packages contained contraband goods. 

 Within the past 2 years I have had occa- 

 sion to place fresh meat in one of these 

 cold storage houses. In both instances I 

 was carefully questioned as to the contents 

 of the packages. The man in charge of the 

 office stated that he had explicit instruc- 

 tions not to take any package for storage 

 without knowing what was in it and that 

 the company would not be incriminated by 

 having in possession game in close season. 

 The Arctic Freezing Company no doubt 

 hoped, as did the game dealers, to be able 

 to carry on this illicit traffic in game with- 

 out being caught at it. Their sin has over- 

 taken them. They have been detected in 

 their wrong doing, and now it is the plain 

 duty of the State to make them pay the 

 penalty las far as their property may be 

 worth it. If they have not money and 

 property enough in the world to pay the 

 fines assessed, then the guilty parties — the 

 officers of the Freezing Company as well 

 as the dealers who own the game — should 

 be compelled to go to jail and serve out 

 that portion of the penalty which they can 

 not piay in cash. 



Many a poor devil has been convicted un- 

 der the laws of this State for violating the 

 game laws. Some of these men have been 

 unable to pay their fines, and have been 

 compelled to go to jail and serve out their 

 sentence. The fact that these storage peo- 

 ple and game dealers are wealthy should 

 not operate in their favor for one minute. 

 The law is no respecter of persons, and 

 the officers of the law should not be. 



Governor Odell merits the admira- 

 tion and respect of every true sportsman 

 for the stand he has taken in this matter, 

 and all such men will stand by him to the 

 end. 



A REMARKABLE GIFT. 



Cortez, Colo. 

 Editor Recreation: 



I have been here in the great Montezuma 

 valley a little more than a month. Have 

 visited 3 of the largest cliff houses extant. 

 The largest of these has 168 rooms, and is 

 extremely difficult of approach. I had 5 

 days in which to look through these 

 houses. My guide was a friend of my 

 early days, Mr. Sterling P. Thomas, of 

 Cortez. He often takes tourists to the 

 old Aztec ruins. He is thoroughly equip- 

 ped for packing and outfitting in every 

 way. 



The ruins are wonderful. You perhaps 

 have seen them, but much as I have been 

 in these mountains I have never before 

 seen anything half so wonderful. I dug 

 and hunted 'much and send you, my far- 

 away friend, the result of my labors. I 

 found many human bones, but only one jaw 

 bone (inferior maxillary) was good. Most 

 of them crumbled, as did the skulls, and all 

 the teeth fell out. I send the only Aztec 

 relic I found, a small water bottle for 

 which I was offered an enormous price, 

 but I wanted it for you. I hope you will 

 accept it in the same spirit in which it is 

 offered you, a humble tribute to a 

 stranger friend. May it long have a place 

 among your curios. 



R. B. Cabell, M. D. 



The specimens arrived in good condition. 

 The water bottle is indeed a rare and in- 

 teresting relic, and is supposed to be 2,000 

 years old from the fact that as nearly as 

 can be determined the cliff dwellers disap- 

 peared from that region 2,000 years ago. 

 The bottle is 4 inches in diameter and 5^2 

 inches high. It is made of thin, narrow 

 strips of bark, apparently from cedar roots. 

 These are closely braided and the bottle is 

 covered with a thick coating of pine or 

 spruce gum. It holds water perfectly. 

 There are 2 small handles made of the 

 bark and placed on one side of the bottle 

 2^/2 inches apart. A thong passed through 

 these and over the shoulder caused the bot- 

 tle to hang upright and it may be easily 

 carried as a canteen. 



I am deeply grateful to Dr. Cabell for 

 this interesting and valuable specimen of 

 the skill of >an extinct race. — Editor. 



MASHIPACONG CLUB ORGANIZED. 



Some months ago I printed in Recrea- 

 tion a description of the Mashipacong tract 

 of land located in Montague township, 

 Sussex County, N. J., and stated that we 

 were endeavoring to organize a club to buy 

 the land. We have been eminently success- 

 ful in this effort. The club now numbers 



