other instance wherein American marksmen, team 
training methods, rifles and ammunition have most 
creditably survived the acid test of competition 
with the best that Europe has to offer. There was 
never any doubt but that the Free Rifle Champion- 
ship would remain in the United States, yet the 
thousands of shooters who have backed up the team 
with good wishes, should derive great satisfaction 
from the realization that their confidence has been 
thoroughly vindicated. Added testimony of the 
skill of American marksmen was presented when 
the United States swept the board in Olympics, 
which were shot following the International. 
While the 1924 total falls some 17 points below 
the phenomenal 1923 score, this difference of about 
38 points per man is easily understandable when it 
is considered that the opportunities for the United 
States team to practice after its arrival in France 
were very limited, and also that a shortage of tar- 
gets caused a dragging out of the match over three 
days. 
In connection with the work of the team this 
year, one fact is especially worthy of note: In past 
years the Americans have won the match largely 
from the prone position, but this year, for the first 
time, the United States also led in the off-hand 
scores. 
CHESTNUT BLIGHT IN GEORGIA 
WO new spot infections of chestnut blight, the 
scourge that has been attacking chestnut 
trees throughout the Eastern forests, were 
recently located in Georgia by E. F. McCarthy, of 
the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station. Both 
are near Blairsville, Georgia, one 10 miles south in 
Union County, the other in Towns County, north 
of Brasstown Bald Mountain and 5 miles from 
Young Harris, Georgia. The former, which is just 
north of the Blue Ridge, was found developing 
rapidly on two trees, several other trees showing 
evidence of the blight in their upper limbs. Rapid 
development was characteristic of the other spot 
also, and both have come into evidence for the first 
time this year. The region is one with a high per- 
centage of chestnut trees, especially on the upper 
mountain slopes. It is the southernmost point at 
which blight has so far been reported, although in 
both North Carolina and Tennessee it has been 
extending in this direction and threatening north- 
ern Georgia. 
DESTRUCTION OF KLAMATH FISHERY 
RESOURCES WOULD AFFECT INDIANS 
HE original fishermen of California were In- 
dians. Long before the white men came, they 
took a fair share of their livelihood from the 
streams. The last stand of the Indian has been 
made upon the one remaining means of support— 
natural resources upon which the Indian has al- 
ways been dependent. 
In a few places the Indian :still finds fairly prim- 
itive conditions. Owing to the wild and isolated 
country in which the Klamath Indians live, they 
are one of the few tribes which have escaped the 
artificialities of civilization and have preserved 
old tribal customs and ceremonials. These Indians 
are largely dependent for their means of living 
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upon the fish and game resources, and especially 
are they dependent upon the fish supply furnished 
by the Klamath River. What, then, will they do 
when this source of food supply is cut off, as it 
will be if the building of a 250-foot dam, 80 miles 
above the mouth of the river, is allowed? 
The California Fish and Game Commission is 
opposed to the construction of the dam because it 
is a purely commercial proposition, wholly unneces- 
sary and if permitted to come into existence, it will 
ruin the great Klamath River, beside working 
hardships on the native Indian tribes. 
TROUT PLANTED IN YELLOWSTONE 
PARK 
VER five million fish eggs and 160,000 fry 
() were planted in the streams of Yellowstone 
National Park during the summer. These 
fish eggs and fry were furnished the National Park 
Service from the fish hatchery located on Lake 
Yellowstone, operated'by the Bureau of Fisheries. 
With its well-stocked lakes and streams abound- 
ing in game fish, the Yellowstone is an ideal fish- 
ing ground. The best angling, of course, is found 
in the more remote sections and mountain fast- 
nesses, but there are waters easily accessible to the 
hotels and camps that are fished by thousands of 
park visitors. 
No license is required for angling in the park, 
but it must be done in accordance with the rules 
and regulations established by the Department of 
the Interior, which provide that all angling must 
be done with hook and line, and that 10 fish shall 
constitute a day’s catch for each person within 2 
miles of the main belt-line road system of the park. 
In other waters the superintendent may, at his 
discretion, authorize a day’s catch of 20 fish. It is 
also required that all fish hooked less than 8 inches 
long shall be carefully handled with moist hands 
and returned at once to the water if not seriously 
injured. 
TWO NEW EASTERN GAME REFUGES 
CREATED 
RESIDENT COOLIDGE has recently signed a 
P drociamation creating two game refuges on 
the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee and 
Georgia for the protection and administration of 
game in that region. 
Originally, all sorts of wild life, native to the 
region thrived there, and an effort will be made to 
restore the game through protection and possibly 
through planting of desirable species. Deer and 
wild turkey are well adapted to this general region. 
The success of the effort made will depend very 
largely on the cooperation of interested citizens. 
The Tennessee Game Refuge is in the Big Frog 
Mountain country, south of the Ocoee River in Polk 
County. It has an area of 30,000 acres, acquired 
under the Weeks Law, and is to be called the Cher- 
okee National Game Refuge, Number One. 
The Georgia Refuge is on the watersheds of 
Noontootla and Rock Creeks, in Fannin County, 
with a small part in Union County—about 14,000 
acres in all—to be known as Cherokee National 
Game Refuge, Number Two. 
