APRIL 7, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

“Yes, sir, Polly an’ me, we killed a b’ar,” and 
then reminiscently to himself there floated back 
to them through the twilight, “we killed a b’ar— 
we killed a b’ar.” W. S. Fercuson. 
Sale of Foreign Game. 
New York, March 26.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am a long-time reader of your ex- 
cellent paper; in fact, from No. 1 of Volume I. 
I have always approved most heartily of the 
stand taken by your publication in the matter 
of bird and game protection, especially of the 
Forest and Stream Plank, “No sale of game.” 
I therefore am pained at the change in the 
plank as indicated in the editorial in the issue 
of March 24, entitled “Foreign and Domestic 
Game in Market.” 
I had supposed that your “No sale’ plank 
included foreign as well as domestic game; I 
do not see how it is possible for you to advocate 
sale in the one case and no sale in the other. 
The editorial concluded as follows: ‘‘On the 
contrary, if the supply of foreign birds shall 
meet the demand for game, it will in that way 
remove in a large degree the inducement to 
illicit trading in our own native birds, and prove 
a distinct factor in the enforcement of the pro- 
tective laws.” 
It strikes me very forcibly that you have over- 
looked, when writing this editorial, that comity 
of laws that should always exist between coun- 
tries as well as between States. The State of 
New York has no moral right to pass a law 
permitting the sale of foreign game, game that 
the countries from which it comes are striving 
to protect, as we are’ striving to protect our 
own game. 
Story in “Conflict of Laws,” says, ‘It is not 
so much a matter of comity and courtesy as of 
paramount moral duty.’ Woolsey, on “Intro- 
duction to International Law,” says, “Comity, 
as generally understood, is national politeness 
and kindness. But the term seems to embrace 
also those tokens of respect which are due be- 
tween nations on the ground of right.” 
How would Forest AND STREAM feel, or the 
people of the State of New York, were they to 
learn that England, France, Italy, Germany, 
Russia, or even Canada were to pass laws per- 
mitting the sale of six species of American 
game birds, at all seasons of the year, ‘‘in order 
to prevent the illicit trading in their own native 
birds, and thus prove a distinct factor in the 
enforcement of their protective laws.” 
To carry this simile still further, the States 
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut 
might just as well pass laws to permit the sale 
of New York game birds in order to protect 
their own. If Assembly bill No. 1474 is passed, 
it may have this effect both at home and abroad. 
The moral aspect of every public question 
should be first considered, always before any 
legal or commercial consideration. 
I believe that Forest AND STREAM has taken 
a backward step in abandoning the very high 
standard that it has always occupied in the 
matter of the sale of game, irrespective of where 
it comes from. - 
Wma. DutcuHeEr, President. 
New York Non-Resident License. 
Aspury Park, N. J.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The widespread influence of your pub- 
lication ought to be directed in bringing to the 
attention of the New York Legislature the serious 
error that will follow if it passes Assemblyman 
Gates’. bill, A. Int. 96, imposing a license fee of 
$25 upon every non-resident who comes into New 
York State to hunt deer. 
Such a measure is unjust. Not only will it 
cause many more people to seek to evade the pay- 
ment of any license, but it will send scores to 
Maine and deprive New York State of a tremen- 
dous revenue which now goes to the railroads, 
the storekeepers and numerous small merchants 
in the Adirondack region. 
Deer are not so plentiful or so easily bagged 
that there is danger of extermination by the gun 
of the non-resident. There is ten times more 
danger from the guns with which the boys and 

foreigners infest the mountainside, assisted with 
dogs by day and seeking to coax forth the deer 
at night with a jack light. 
One party from this section has visited the 
Adirondacks seven seasons. In that time the 
total result was two deer. The risk of a “skunk” 
is too great to be worth a $25 license. They 
would rather go to Maine where game is more 
plentiful and permission is given to ship it out 
of the State. 
Assemblyman Gates should be content to leave 
the license fee for deer at the present price, $10. 
Let him make the fee $25 for bear. It would be 
more wise to prohibit for a few years the hunting 
of bruin at all. 
I believe in his idea that every hunter, whether 
resident or non-resident, should take out a 
license. If the State needs money to carry on its 
game commission’s work this ought to furnish 
sufficient. But don’t drive the non-resident hun- 
ter away with a prohibitive license fee. Take 
his $10 and let him have the other $15 to buy 
camp grub with, It will do him more good than 
the State. Harotp E, DENEGAR. 
Maps of the Yellowstone Park. 
THE great work of surveying the Yellowstone 
National Park was completed a number of years 
ago, and since then at various times have ap- 
peared papers and volumes treating of its topog- 
raphy and geology. The work was done by Mr. 
Arnold Hague, and among his assistants were such 
eminent men as Prof, J. P. Iddings, Mr. Walter 
Harvey Weed, Prof. William Hallock, Mr. G. M. 
Wright, Professor Gooch, of New Haven, and 
many others. 
The last of the publications to appear on the 
subject of the Park is the superb atlas of the 
Geology, which has just been issued. It consists 
of twenty-four large sheets, of which six show 
the topography and six the geology of the Park 
at large. two show the topography and the geol- 
ogy of the Yellowstone National Park and a por- 
tion of the Yellowstone forest reserve, three of 
the Mammoth Hot Springs, showing their topog- 
raphy, geology and the details of their travertine 
terraces, one each of the geology of the Norris, 
Fire Hole, Excelsior and Upper Geyser Basins, 
one each of the topography of the central portion 
of the Upper Geyser Basin, the geology of the 
Shoshone Geyser Basin and the geology of the 
shores of the Yellowstone Lake. 
No such beautiful or complete atlas of any one 
region has perhaps ever been issued, and this 
work, with the volumes which have preceded it, 
is a lasting monument to those who took part 
in a labor which was long and difficult—though 
delightful—and which was finally so- creditably 
completed. Mr. Hague and those with him who 
produced this splendid work are to be congratu- 
lated. 

New Club in Taunton. 
Boston, Mass., March 31.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have just returned from the city of 
Taunton, where last evening I had the pleasure 
of meeting some forty or more sportsmen who 
met for the purpose of forming an association 
for the preservation and propagation of fish and 
game. 
The State Association has been able to send 
them a number of dozen quail, at which the 
sportsmen express great satisfaction. The re- 
gion all about the city abounds in fine covers, and 
on some of the farms where strawberry culture 
predominates there are plenty of weeds that sup- 
ply an abundance of food for the birds. There 
are also several fine trout streams within a ra- 
dius of a few miles, and it is proposed to look 
after stocking such as have been denuded of fish. 
The club chose officers as follows: President, 
A. C, Bent; Vice-President, F. A. Harmon; Sec- 
retary-Treasurer, Becknell Hall; Executive Com- 
mittee, the above, and George R. Thorndike, 
Amos Collins, H. W. Thomas, E. A. Searle and 
J. B. Morlock. H. H. KiMsatt. 
Bryan, O.—Inclosed find draft renewal of sub- 
scription to Forest AND STREAM’ The recent im- 
provement makes a clincher that is irresistible— 
must have it. Ass 
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Represito Shooting Association of Arizona 
PHeNIXx, Ariz., March 10.—Through the ef- 
forts of Mr. Alfred C. Sieboth, superintendent of 
the Lake Superior & Arizona Mining & Smelting 
Company, at Superior, Ariz., the Represito Shoot- 
ing Association was organized last November, 
with a membership of twenty-five, the club leas- 
ing the shooting privileges on the Florence reser- 
voir, an artificial body of water coverng about 
2,000 acres, used for irrigating purposes, situated 
about fifteen miles south of the town of Florence, 
half way between that point and the Southern 
Pacific Railroad, in Pinal county, Ariz. The fol- 
lowing is a partial list of the members: Alfred 
C. Sieboth, Superior; D, C. Stevens, C. G. Powell, 
R. P. Sharpe, John W. Sharpe, J. E. O’Connor, 
H. G, Murphy, W. Y. Price, W. C. Truman, J. 
E. McGee, Florence; W. J. Kingsbury, Tempe; 
W. A. Holt, Globe; W. L. Pinney, Garret Hulst, 
H. I. Latham, H. P. DeMund, Charles P. De- 
Mund, Dr. H. H. Stone, Gordon Tweed, Frank 
Ainsworth, J. Ernest Walker, E. W. Thayer, R. 
B. Beecher, Phcenix. 
A club house was immediately erected at the 
reservoir, two Mullins’ steel “get there’ duck 
boats and a couple of wooden boats put into com- 
mission, and a liberal number of decoys secured, 
although so far the supply of ducks has been so 
great that decoys were not needed. A keeper and 
cook are always on the ground, and no one but 
members and their invited guests are allowed to 
shoot on the preserve. All kinds of ducks com- 
mon to this section have been killed this winter, 
including mallards, redheads, canvasbacks, wid- 
geons, bluebills, butterballs, sprigs, gadwalls, teal, 
spoonbills, whistlers etc. 
Fish and Game Commissioner Pinney has lately 
seeded the reservoir to wild rice. 
Feb. to Game Commissioner Pinney, Dr. H. H. 
Stone, Dr. H. J. Jessop, D. E. Morrell and Capt. 
J. W. Crenshaw killed 160 ducks. March 4 and 5 
Messrs. Pinney, Morrell, Cassiday, Snoke, Stull 
and Howe from Phcenix bagged 109, and would 
have secured twice as many had it not been for 
the ducking two of the best shooters received 
each day they were out. In the latter part of Feb- 
ruary Messrs. DeMund, Galpin, Beecher and 
Miner killed about a hundred in a day’s shooting. 
The officers of the Association are: <A. C. Sie- 
both, President; J. W. Sharpe, Vice-President; 
R. P. Sharpe, Secretary; D. C. Stevens, Treas- 
urer. 
A Hounding Prosecution Threatened. 
It is reported from Albany that Chief Fish and 
Game Protector Burnham has secured evidence 
that one of the game keepers employed by Will- 
iam Rockefeller in the Adirondacks has _ been 
keeping fox hounds in the woods, and _ has 
been running deer. The name of the man against 
whom it is reported that action will be brought is 
John Redmond, manager of the Bay Pond Adi- 
rondack Preserve. 
Mr. Burnham has had uniform success, so far, 
with all the cases that he has brought against 
persons violating the law. No doubt more will 
be heard of this matter before long. 
“My Sixty Years on the Plains.” 
MEETEETSE, Wyo., Jan. 1o—John D. Losekamp 
Esq., Billings. Mont. Dear Sir—I am in receipt 
of the two books and thank you for your cour- 
tesy in sending the same direct. 
I have had much pleasure in reading the vol- 
ume, and of course while I am not acquainted 
with the main events, and undoubtedly most ot 
the facts transpired before the time of the first 
emigration westward, I have a general knowledge 
of the matters connected with the narrative. I 
only wish that Hamilton .had gone into details 
more, chiefly for the reason that these will be lost 
to future generations, J] am your very truly, 
Wm. L. SIMPSON. 
Nitwoop, IJl—Let me add my hearty approval 
of the new form you have given Forest AND 
StrEAM. It always was the best sportsman’s 
journal I ever saw, and now the management is 
making it better. Vood2n Ry 
