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New Brunswick Guides’ Association. 
New Brunswick Tourists’ Association. 
New Brunswick Government Exhibit. 
Adirondacks. 
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., Montreal. 
A. B. Moncure, Dinwiddie, Va. 
Merrill M. White, Boonville, N. Y. 
G. D. Tilley, Darien, Conn. 
Central Railroad of New Jersey. 
Asbury Park Exhibit, Asbury Park, N. J. 
Grand Trunk Railway System, Montreal. 
Amateur Sportsman, New York city. 
J. F. McLaughlin, New York city. 
Nugget Polish Co., Ltd., New York city. 
Indian Exhibits Co., New York city. 
Estate of Adolph Starke, Brooklyn. 
Caloris Mfg. Co., Philadelphia. 
I. J. Stringham, New York city. 
Newskin Co., Brooklyn. 
Wilson Trading Co., New York city. 
Field and Stream, New York city. 
Sandow’s Grip Dumb-Bell Co., New York city. 
H. and C. Bottle Mfg. Co., New York city. 
F. Cecil Parker, Lake Placid, N. Y. 
Maxim’s Silent Fire Arms Co., New York city. 
Goodwin’s Official Race Game Co., New York 
city. 
Sterling Hardware Co., New York city. 
H. M. Stevens. 
K. W. Goldthwaite, Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
Walter D. Hinds, Portland, Me. 
Canadian Wolf Hunting. 
Montreal, Can., March 6.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: One man at least has seriously taken 
up the business of attempting to rid our Cana¬ 
dian forests of wolves. This is J. A. Hope 
who, when present at the wolf hunt last year, 
was so taken with the possibilities that he has 
this year built a chain of log cabins around 
Clear Lake in the Mississauga forest district, 
about twenty miles north of Thessalon, and is 
prepared to receive sportsmen interested in wolf 
extermination. Every method is adopted, from 
laying blood trails when the moon is dark, and 
then posting sportsmen in trees alongside of 
the trails on clear moonlight nights, to trap¬ 
ping and poisoning. Mr. Hope writes under 
date of Feb. 12 as follows: 
“I have four wolves up to date and as many 
more to find which are covered up by a snow¬ 
storm, and before spring I shall have killed 
enough to give positive proof to sportsmen that 
wolves can be killed in mid-winter hunts; that 
they are found in these northern woods; that 
they can get skins to take back home with 
them as trophies; and therefore that wolf hunt¬ 
ing is not a fake, but one of the finest sports, 
granting that sport consists in pitting human 
wit against that of the quarry. 
“Abram C. Mott, of Philadelphia, left camp 
recently for home, taking two skins with him. 
He says that a great many sportsmen in Phila¬ 
delphia laughed at him for coming up to Canada 
to try to get the impossible. They will never 
laugh again. Byron Brooks, of New York, has 
also left for home, but expects to be back again. 
He is the most enthusiastic wolf hunter that 
ever struck these Northern woods. Moreover, 
he is so delighted with this wild country full 
of all kinds of big game that he is confident 
wolf hunting has a big future. C. F. Lane. 
Game Legislaiion in Congress. 
Washington, D. C., March 6.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The list of bills affecting game 
passed by tbe last Congress was small, but in¬ 
cluded several measures of general interest. At 
the first session the only actual game bill 
passed was the new game law for Alaska, ap¬ 
proved May II, 1908. At the same session an 
item in the agricultural appropriation bill for 
1909 provided $30,000 for purchasing, and 
$10,000 for fencing a tract of not more than 
12,800 acres of land for a bison range on the 
Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. At 
the session just closed appropriations for game 
protection were carried in several of the bills 
and the Lacey Act was materially strengthened. 
Appropriations. 
In the agricultural appropriation bill for 1910 
a considerable increase was made in the ap¬ 
propriation for the Biological Survey, includ¬ 
ing specific sums of $9,420 for the enforcement 
of the Lacey Act, and $7,000 for the mainte¬ 
nance of the bison range in Montana and other 
reservations for mammals and birds. The 
authorization of the purchase of the Montana 
bison range was re-enacted, and the limit on 
the amount of land was extended to 20,000 
acres. An item of $3,000 to complete the fence 
on the enlarged range was also carried in the 
general deficiency bill. The sundry civil bill, in 
addition to the usual appropriation of $2,500 for 
the maintenance of buffalo in the Yellowstone 
Park, included an item of $10,000 for game 
warden service in Alaska to be expended under 
the direction of the Governor. 
Penal Code. 
In the penal code, which was passed the last 
day of the session, the law protecting birds on 
Federal bird reservations was re-enacted and 
Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Lacey Act were in¬ 
corporated, the interstate commerce provisions 
of the act being amended and considerably 
strengthened. 
Bills Which Failed to Pass. 
Among the bills considered by this Congress, 
but which failed to pass, were ten, which de¬ 
serve mention in this connection: 
S. 2032 and S. 5648, to establish the Glacier 
National Park, west of the summit of the Rocky 
Mountains and south of the international 
boundary line in Montana, and for other pur¬ 
poses. 
S. 7071, authorizing the Secretary of the In¬ 
terior to lease lands in Stanley county. South 
Dakota, for a buffalo pasture. Senate bill 5648 
was a modification of S. 2032, and S. 7071 
merely made a verbal change in a law passed 
in 1906. 
S. 7919, for the protection of wild animals 
and birds (near Mount McKinley) in the in¬ 
terior of Alaska and setting aside a refuge and 
breeding place therefor. 
S. 7920, for the protection of wild animals 
and birds in [the] Alaska (Peninsula) and 
setting aside a refuge and breeding place there¬ 
for. 
H. R. 10.449, for the protection of animals, 
birds and fish in the forest reserves in Cali¬ 
fornia. 
H. R. 13,655, to grant to the State of Min¬ 
nesota certain lands for a forest and game re¬ 
serve. 
H. R. 14,037, for the protection of game ani¬ 
mals, birds and fishes in the Olympic Forest 
Reserve of the United States, in the State of 
Washington. 
H. R. 21,487, to establish a forest reserve and 
game park in the i6th Congressional district of 
Missouri, to be known as “The Ozark National 
Forest Reserve and Game Park.’’ 
H. R. 22,888, to protect migratory game birds 
of the United States. 
Most of the measures, including the Weeks bill 
to protect migratory birds and the game refuge 
bills, did not progress beyond the committees 
to which they were referred on introduction. 
The original Glacier Park bill was reported ad¬ 
versely by the committee and indefinitely post¬ 
poned. The second bill passed the Senate and 
a similar measure passed the House, but the 
combined bill was lost in conference. 
An effort was made in the Senate on March i 
to include an item in the sundry civil bill, ap¬ 
propriating the sum of $150,000 for co-operation 
in the International Austro-Hungarian Ex¬ 
position of the Chase, to be held in Vienna in 
May, 1910. The amendment was lost on a point 
of order and consequently no appropriation was 
made for this exposition. 
Bird and Game Refuges. 
In the closing days of his administration. 
President Roosevelt, by executive order, es¬ 
tablished twenty-six new bird reserves in the 
Western States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto 
Rico. A reservation was also created for the 
protection of moose on Fire Island, at the head 
of Cook Inlet in Alaska. 
Although all of the game refuge bills failed 
of enactment, some progress in this direction 
was made during the last two years. On June 
23, 1908, the area of the Grand Canon Game 
Refuge was extended by executive proclama¬ 
tion to include a considerable region south of 
the canon, making the total area of the refuge 
at present about 2,000,000 acres. On the lands 
in Minnesota, which were to be granted to the 
State under the terms of the Volstead Bill (H. 
R- 13)655) a new national forest, the Superior 
National Forest, was created on February 13, 
1909. An effort is now being made to secure 
the passage of a bill by the Legislature of 
Minnesota making the national forests in the 
State in effect game refuges. 
The day before his retirement, the President 
issued a proclamation under the Act of June 
8, 1906, creating the Mt. Olympus National 
Monument in the State of Washington. This 
“monument” comprises some 600,000 acres set 
apart because it contains objects of unusual 
scientific interest, including the glaciers on Mt. 
Olympus and other peaks of the Olympics, and 
the breeding grounds of the Olympic elk 
(Cervtts roosevelti). With the protection ac¬ 
corded under the State game law and the 
preservation of their summer range assured, 
these elk should now have an opportunity to 
increase in numbers. T. S. Palmer. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
