EDITOR'S CORNER. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS 

 v Read the deadly 

 1895. 



January . . 

 February . 

 March . . . 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August . . . 

 September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



$379 

 256 

 300 

 342 

 292 



307 

 345 

 306 

 498 

 438 

 556 

 652 



parallel c 



1896. 



$723 



093 



1,049 



645 

 902 



770 

 563 

 601 



951 

 969 



1,054 

 1,853 



FOR 4 V 



olumns 

 1900. 



$3,205 

 2,151 

 1,919 

 1,570 



i,377 

 971 



854 

 1,262 



1,464 

 1,842 

 2,060 



4,742 



EARS 



1901. 



?3>903 

 3,267 

 3,710 

 2,760 • 



2,303 

 2,oi6 

 2,000 



2,245 

 1,940 

 2,227 



2,570 

 4,981 



$4,671 io,773 23,741 33,922 



A gain of $10,181 over 1901. Not so 



bad, when you recall that Paddy Marlin 



has spent at least $100,000 trying to kill 



Recreation. 



If you doubt the accuracy of these fig- 

 ures remember you can see the letters that 

 brought all this money any day, if you 

 will call here. 



Office hours : 4 a. m. to 10 p. m. 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FAVORS GAME 

 PRESERVES. 



The following letter is self-explanatory: 



The League of American Sportsmen, 

 Office 23 W. 24TH St., 

 New York, Oct. 29, 1901. 

 To His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, 

 President of the United States, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dear Sir : I beg to suggest that in your 

 annual message to Congress you advise 

 and urge the enactment of certain laws of 

 wnich we are in urgent need for protection 

 of American wild animals, birds and for- 

 ests. 



Among these measures I respectfully call 

 your attention to the need of a law mak- 

 ing all the Western forest reservations 

 game preserves, in the same sense and un- 

 der regulations similar to those in force 

 in the Yellowstone National Park. 



We have several regiments of cavalry 

 that must be .maintained somewhere. One 

 company of each regiment could be sta- 

 tioned on each of these reservations to 

 do scout and police duty. This would 

 keep men and horses in splendid condi- 

 tion at all times. In addition to these, 10 

 or 12 citizen scouts should be employed 

 for each preserve ; and this would be prac- 

 tically the only expense the Government 

 would have to incur in maintaining these 

 forests as game preserves. 



Another thing the Government should 

 certainly do is to purchase the Allard herd 



of buffalo, and maintain it for at least a 

 long term of years, on the range it now 

 occupies. The animals could be bought 

 at a reasonable price and the grazing priv- 

 ilege could be leased from the Flathead 

 Indians at a nominal sum per year. The 

 increase of the herd could be distributed 

 among city parks, zoological societies and 

 private owners. Thus the species could 

 be perpetuated in this country for all time 

 to come. 



A liberal appropriation should be made 

 to carry out that provision of the Lacey 

 law which authorizes the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture to engage in the propagation and 

 distribution of game birds. 



I need not take up your time with argu- 

 ments as to the urgent need of these meas- 

 ures. No man is more thoroughly familiar 

 with the situation than you are, and any- 

 thing you might say to Congress on the 

 subject would have greater weight than 

 the same words would have had if uttered 

 by any one of your predecessors, because 

 every public man knows your interest in 

 the cause of game protection. 



Hoping you may see fit to adopt these 

 suggestions, I am 



Yours respectfully, 



G. O. Shields, Pres. 



Here is what the President said about it 

 in his annual message : 



Certain of the forest reserves should also be 

 made preserves for the wild forest creatures. All 

 of the reserves should be better protected from 

 fires. Many of them need special protection be- 

 cause of the great injury done by live stock, above 

 all by sheep. The increase in deer, elk, and other 

 animals in the Yellowstone park, shows what may 

 be expected when other mountain forests are prop- 

 erly guarded. Some of these areas have been 

 so denuded of surface vegetation by overgrazing 

 that the ground-breeding birds, including grouse 

 and quails, and many mammals, including deer, 

 have been exterminated or driven away. At the 

 same time the water-storing capacity of the sur- 

 face has been decreased or destroyed, thus pro- 

 moting floods in times of rain and diminishing 

 the flow of streams between rains. 



In cases where natural conditions have been 

 restored for a few years, vegetation has again 

 carpeted the ground, birds and deer are coming 

 back, and hundreds of persons, especially from 

 the immediate neighborhood, go each summer to 

 enjoy the privilege of camping. Some, at least, 

 of the forest reserves should afford perpetual pro- 

 tection to the native fauna and flora, safe havens 

 of refuge to our rapidly diminishing wild animals 

 of the larger kinds, and free camping grounds for 

 the ever-increasing numbers of men and women 

 who have learned to find rest, health and recrea- 

 tion in the splendid forests and flower-clad mead- 

 ows of our mountains. The forest reserves should 

 be set apart forever for the use and benefit of 

 our people as a whole, and not sacrificed to the 

 shortsighted greed of a few. 



Some important measures, looking to 

 these ends, will be introduced in Congress 

 at an early date, and all League members 

 will be asked to aid in securing their 

 passage. 



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