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cold storage houses, ete., are prohibited 
from offering for sale or keeping, or hav- 
ing in their possession any of the afore- 
mentioned game, except geese, brant, ducks 
and snipe during November. ‘Transporta- 
tion companies are prohibited from trans- 
porting any of the aforementioned game 
into, out of, or through our State, and the 
same law applies to ail of our game fishes. 
Fishes in certain lakes are protected until 
the year 1908. Song birds and their nests 
are also protected. 
Every person who hunts in the State of 
Washington during the season when it 1S 
lawful to hunt, must first procure a license 
from the county auditor in the county in 
which he wishes to hunt, and if he desires 
to hunt in more than one county, he must 
obtain a license in eacli*county in which he 
hunts. The annual license fee is $1, and 
there is no discrimination between resident 
and non-resident applicants. The fee is 
piaced in the hands of the County Treas- 
urer, goes into the game protection fund, 
and is used for the purpose of employing 
county game wardens. In any case where 
the county commissioners fail to appoint a 
game warden, the State game warden has 
the right to appoint one. 
I have, during the past year, correspond- 
ed with or personally seen the Board of 
County Commissioners in most of the coun- 
ties of my State, and urged the necessity 
of building up our game preserves. 
This year I am building the first trout 
hatchery in our State. It is located on the 
beautiful Lake Chelan, far up in the Cas- 
cade mountains, and is an ideal spot for the 
enterprise as well as a pleasant resort for 
the tourist. ‘The hatchery will be modern 
in all its details, and will be supplied with 
a complete system of ponds and basins for 
rearing all the choice varieties of game 
fishes. At the convening of the next Legis- 
lature I shall ask for an appropriation for 
the construction of 2 more game fish hatch- 
eries. One will probably be located in the 
prairie country, on the Little Spokane river, 
about 9 miles from Spokane, in the Eastern 
part of our State. The other will probably 
be located in the Western part of the State, 
on Lake Crescent, a most picturesaue body 
of water high up in the Olympic range, 
and one of the most beautiful places known 
to man. These hatcheries will likewise be 
modern in all their equipments, and when 
completed and in operation, my State will 
be as well equipped for supplying our 
streams and lakes with game fishes as any 
States in the Union. 
Before I return home, there is one mat- 
ter to which I wish to call your attention. 
In 1905, the Lewis and Clarke Exposition 
will be held in Portland, Oregon, just 
across the Columbia river from the borders 
of my State, and a few hours’ ride from 
RECREATION. 
the beautiful city of Seattle. Transporta- 
tion will be furnished so cheaply as to in- 
duce visitors to attend the exhibition from 
the remotest corners of the continent. Ata 
meeting of the Game Protective Associa- 
tion of my State, which I attended at Se- 
attle a few days before leaving home, it 
was unanimously decided to use all honor- 
able means to induce this association to 
hold its Seventh annual convention in 
Seattle, during the summer of 1905. If you 
accept our ‘invitation we promise you a 
hearty welcome. You will meet, on the 
shores of the Pacific, a whole souled class 
of people; men who have had the courage 
to leave the luxuries of life behind them 
and by their energy and enterprise help to 
raise an empire out of the wilderness of the 
West. You will meet men who are build- 
ing up the great West, generous men, cour- 
ageous, enterprising, broad minded men, 
true and brave, who know what is right and 
who dare to do it. We will show you the 
great wheat farms of our State, the home 
of the grouse and the prairie hen. We will 
show you the mighty rivers of the West, 
the Columbia and the Fraser; the spawn- 
ing grounds of the Chinook and the sock- 
eye; the magic cities of the West that are 
the wonder of the commercial world; the 
grandest mountains in the world, enclosing 
the most beautiful inland lakes. We will 
show you the wooded hills, the range of the 
deer and the elk, and will let you listen to 
the sweet music of our mountain streams, 
the paradise of the rainbow, the Mediter- 
ranean of the ‘West, and will let you breathe 
the pure air from the placid Pacific. We 
will show you the eternal snow-capped 
peaks of Mt. Tacoma, Mt. Baker and Mt. 
Hood, standing as sentinel guards over this 
great empire of the West. 
You can gaze on mountain streams and 
cataracts tossing their spray far into the 
heavens, glistening in the rays of the sun 
with prismatic tints that would cause the 
rainbow in all her glory to blush with 
shame. You can see the threatening smoke 
ascending skyward from volcanic erup- 
tions, and then turn your vision to the 
peaceful harbors of the Pacific, and beho! 
the great ocean steamers rocking as quietly 
to their anchors as sleeping babes in. their 
cradles. We will show you on our bench- 
lands the finest timber in the world, gigan- 
tic trees of fir, hemlock, cedar and spruce, 
measuring 14 feet in diameter, and climbing 
heavenward 200 feet before shooting forth 
their first limbs. We will show you val- 
leys of wild flowers, sending forth such 
fragrance and perfume as to discourage all 
the sweets-of Arabia, and which will give 
you eternal dreams of paradise; we will 
dine and wine you to the queen’s taste, and 
will entertain you with songs and stories by 
the most beautiful women on earth. 
