June 29, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Mr, Perce, of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, pre¬ 
sented our president a silver and gun metal cup 
engraved on both sides. Mr. Perce, in present¬ 
ing the gift on behalf of President Beatty and 
members of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club to the 
members of the Illinois Casting Club, alluded in 
graceful and most eloquent terms to the fine 
spirit of friendship that has ever existed be¬ 
tween the two clubs and his address—responded 
to briefly by our president—will live long in the 
memory of those present. 
Attention is called to the magnificent casting- 
in the half-ounce distance bait by C. E. Lingen- 
felter, of the Anglers’ Club of Chicago, whose 
average of 228 2/5 feet, and longest single cast 
of 251 feet, both exceed all national and club 
score records of which we have knowledge. For 
the information of those interested in records it 
may be stated that the official weather conditions 
at the hour of casting were, wind southwest, maxi¬ 
mum velocity 21 miles, and humidity 82 degrees. 
That the practice events run off every Satur¬ 
day afternoon and the “day following” are of 
increasing interest to members both old and 
new is attested by the attendance of twenty-five 
and thirty-two members on Sundays during the 
past two weeks. Come join the bunch and get 
in ninety-nine shape physically and mentally. 
Your executive committee expresses the wish 
that members wear their badges and buttons 
and bars as well at all contests and thus learn to 
wear these insignia gracefully for the big event 
—the N. A. S. A. C. tournament—in August on 
the 15th, i6th and 17th. The order for addi¬ 
tional badges will be placed within a few days, 
and those members who have not yet made ap¬ 
plication may do so this week to the secretary. 
Members having any communications of in¬ 
terest or suggestions for the betterment of the 
game will kindly mail to the secretary, and they 
will be posted or given careful consideration. 
Kindly note that the scores credited to 
Messrs. Whitby and Ball of 99 13/15 per cent, in 
the accuracy fly in the tournament. May 26, were 
erroneous, and should have read 98 13/15 per 
cent. This information for the benefit of record 
“bugs” and with regrets to Messrs. Whitby and 
Ball. 
On June 29 the events of quarter-ounce ac¬ 
curacy bait, quarter-ounce distance bait, delicacy 
fly and light tackle accuracy fly will be held. 
Change your calendar and your weight. 
O. C. Wehle, Secretary pro tern. 
Newark Bait- and Fly-Casting Club. 
Newark, N. J., June 17.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Scores made at the club platform at 
Weequahic Lake on Saturday afternoon, June 
15, follow: 
Quarter-ounce distance, bait: 
Mapes . 173 
-Muldoon . 65 
Doughty . 142 
Endersby . 88 
Champion . 123 
Longest Cast. Average. 
Hy. 
Neu 
Sands . 
Accuracy, 
Muldoon . 
Doughty . 
Champion . 
Longest cast. 
Doughty . 
Muldoon 
125 
110 
158% 
46% 
77 
66 Vs 
101 % 
71% 
Mapes 
demerits: 
. 35 
. 24 
. 31 
dry fly, distance: 
31 
Endersby . 53 
Muldoon 
Endersby 
.... 58 
Champion . 
. 64 
.... 48 
Endersby . 
. 521/2 
.... 48 
accuracy, 
bait, per cent.: 
98 2-15 
Champion . 
.. 92 8-15 
. 98 2-15 
Neu . 
.. 91 10-15 
. 96 11-15 
Sands . 
.. 90 4-15 
94 
Lou L. Sands, Sec’y. 
Elk Preservation. 
BY RALEIGH RAINES. 
Five States have been supplied with ship¬ 
ments of elk during the past season, in pursuance 
of a plan of the general Government to save the 
animals from such practical extinction as has over¬ 
taken the buffalo. Nearly all of the Western States 
are anxious for shipments of the elk. They are be¬ 
ing distributed as fast as possible, but the work is 
slow and expensive and limited to the winter 
season. The States supplied this year were 
Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Mon¬ 
tana. The Biological Survey of the Department 
of Agriculture has distributed the animals, and 
has aimed to make the shipments as near 
twenty as possible. Most of the elk are col¬ 
lected during the winter at Jackson Hole in 
Wyoming, where the Government has been feed¬ 
ing them with hay under a provision of the 
agricultural appropriation bill for the current 
year. About 700 tons of hay were used during 
the past winter. The animals come in to be fed 
and are driven into a strong corral, when the 
ones selected for shipment are captured and 
placed in cars. It has been a delicate job to 
secure the big wild animals without injuring 
them. The original appropriation for the pur¬ 
pose of feeding the elk amounted to $20000, a 
large portion of which was used during the past 
winter and the previous spring. It is difficult 
to take an accurate census of wild animals, but 
so far as the Biological Survey can ascertain, 
there are now about 70,000 elk in the United 
States, mostly in the Yellowstone National Park 
and Jackson Hole region in Wyoming. At one 
time there were any number of elk in all of 
the Western States. 
When a shipment is collected it is destined 
for a particular forest, where the animals are re¬ 
leased and allowed to multiply. In the national 
forests, which number about 165, containing ap¬ 
proximately 195,000,000 acres, the army of forest 
rangers, assisted by the State game wardens, 
extend their protection and care. This policy 
has long been advocated by the writer and others, 
and it is gratifying to see at last the idea fast 
gaining ground and materializing. The immense 
area of the national forests could be used to 
propagate native game with little expense, and 
in time would not only be the means of reclaim¬ 
ing the native game animals, but become a source 
of profit to the Government in the way of 
revenue and result in immeasurable benefit and 
pleasure to many sportsmen who might desire 
to take one or more of the animals each sea¬ 
son. 
The Senate committee on agriculture has 
provided an item for establishing a new fenced 
elk reservation in the Wind Gave country of 
Wyoming, and if possible this reservation will 
be completed during the coming summer. Dur¬ 
ing the past winter there were twelve elk sent 
by the Biological Survey to the Flathead bison 
reserve in Montana, which contains an area of 
20.000 acres under fence. The conditions are 
ideal for the bison, where two years ago the 
Government began with a herd of thirty-six. 
which has now increased to more than sixty 
head. There is a considerable part of the reser¬ 
vation better adapted to elk than to the bison 
and the two herds are not expected, therefore, 
to interfere with each other. 
The Department of Agriculture hopes for 
considerable assistance in preserving the elk from 
the Order of Elks, which two years ago agreed 
to discontinue the use of elk teeth as an emblem. 
The Biological Survey is trying to assist in the 
preservation of the prong-horned antelope much 
in ‘the same way as is being done with the elk. 
It is a much more difficult task, however, owing 
to the habit of the antelope which live by prefer¬ 
ence in the big stretches of desert where it is 
almost impossible to protect them from the 
hunter. 
New York State Sportsmen’s Association. 
New York City, May 25 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Apropos of the annual convention and 
tournament of our association June 10 to 13 at 
Syracuse, N. Y., the following note copied from 
the archives may interest many of your readers 
in these days of public interest in conservation 
of the State’s natural resources; 
“The thirteenth annual convention met on 
May 22, 1871, in the rooms of the Central New 
York Sportsmen’s Club in the city of Utica and 
continued for five days. The officers were: 
President, Charles W. Hutchinson, Utica; First 
Vice-President, Wm. H. Bowman, Rochester; 
Second Vice-President, S. T. Murray, Niagara 
Falls; Recording Secretary, John B. Sage, Buf¬ 
falo ; Corresponding Secretary, Wm. M. Storrs, 
Utica; Treasurer, S. M. Spencer, Rochester. 
Mr. Charles E. Whitehead, of New York, sec¬ 
onded by Mr. John F. Seymour, of Utica, pre¬ 
sented a resolution that “in the opinion of this 
convention the forests of the Adirondacks, being 
a natural reserve for the recreation of the public, 
should be preserved by an act of the Legisla¬ 
ture, as a public forest inalienable and indestruc¬ 
tible forever, for the use of the public.’ On 
motion a committee consisting of the Hon. 
Horatio Seymour. Chairman; Hon. Geo. W. 
Clinton, of Buffalo; Hon. Jarvis Lord, of 
Rochester; Hon. George Dawson, of Albany; 
Hon. Robt. B. Roosevelt, of New York, and Rev. 
Mr. Huntingdon, of Auburn, was appointed, to 
embody in writing the foregoing resolution and 
present the same to the Legislature.” 
L. H. Schortemeier, Sec’y-Treas. 
Illinois Hunting License. 
New hunting licenses for Illinois went on 
sale June i. The old permits expired May 31. 
Squirrels are the only game which may be legally 
shot this month. It is permissible to kill fifteen 
per day until Nov. 15. Birds are protected until 
Aug. 2, when mourning doves may be killed 
while all species of waterfowl may be killed 
after Sept. 2. Applications for licenses are few 
at this season of the year. The rush does not 
commence until the duck season. 
