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Illinois State Park Bill 
We are glad to note that House Bill No. 342, “‘For an Act in relation 
to the acquisition, control, maintenance, improvement and protection of 
State parks,” introduced by Mrs. O’Neill, passed the legislature and has 
been signed by the Governor. This enactment will go a long ways to- 
ward establishing wild life sanctuaries. 
States Approve Wild Life Haven 
345,000-Acre Retuge on Mississippi Authorized 
Christian Science Monitor, Fuly 16, 1925 
CHICAGO, July 16 (Special)—Signatures of Len Small, Governor of 
Illinois, and John J. Blaine, Governor of Wisconsin, have -been affixed 
to the final State enabling acts necessary to establishment by the Fed- 
eral Government of the upper Mississippi River wild life and fish refuge. 
This information has been received at national headquarters here 
of the Izaak Walton League, sponsors of the great preserve bordering 
the four states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. 
Purchase of the first tracts of the refuge, which covers some 345,000 
acres of bottom lands from Rock Island, IIl., to Wabasha, Minn., is ex- 
pected to be started within the next few weeks. A total federal appro- 
priation of $1,500,000 has been authorized, of which $400,000 is now 
available. 
Harry B. Hawes (D.), Representative from St. Louis, Mo., author of 
the original bill in Congress providing for the refuge, eee returned 
from a tour of inspection of the region in company with a party of 50 
Walton leaguers. 
