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representative was iinable the next day to find any of these 
thousands of dxicks and when the person alleged to have made the 
statement was, asked the name of the party to whom he made 
application for permission to ship these thousands of ducks at his 
own expense he denied it, as the following communication will show: 
"Sacramento, Nov. 3, 1917* 
"TJr. 7.gilhert, 
Vifillows, Cal. 
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Dear Sir : 
"Yours of October 30th is received. After discussing the 
same withMr. 7. M. Fewhert, President of the Pish and Oame 
Commission, he wishes me to say. th^.t he is in entire accord with 
you relative to cooperation between the grain grower and the • 
Fish and Game Commission in order to lessen and perhaps eliminate 
the loss sustained by the deprediations of birds to growing rice. 
He states this cooperation should not be postponed until just 
before the next harvest season. 
"Referring to the third paragraph of your letter, will say 
that the clipping referred to and printed in the V/illows Journal 
reads as follows: 
"*Some time ago Hr. Egilbert of the >Vestern Rice Growers’ 
Association asked for permission to ship at his own expense the 
ducks which were being killed, to State Institutions rather than 
see them going to waste on the around, This permission was 
not granted, etc.’ 
"This article has been widely copied by numerous papers of 
the State. The editor of the Journal stated to me, in the presence 
of his reporter, that you gave him the information quoted in the 
above clipping. In all justness and fairness T think you should 
deny the statement alleged to have been made by you, if, as you say, 
you did not make it. The Journal, I feel sure, would be only too 
pleased to right .a wrong, if a wrong can be righted, by denying 
the statement attributed to you. 
"The law requires that all unlawfully killed fish and game 
shall be donated by the Fish and Game Commission to some charitable 
institution. Had there been any such game as stated, the 
Commission would have complied with the law, paying all expenses of 
same. It has gone forth to the people of this State that you were 
refused nermission to do this, which is untrue, because no request 
was made*. Such reports as these, if not corrected, only add to the 
difficulties of the controversy. These difficulties can be over- 
come, however, by a frank statements of facts* 
"Hoping to hear from you at an early date, I beg to remain, 
' "Very truly vours, 
(Signed) Geo. Heale , Assistant." 
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