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WORK IN THE SEVERAL DISTRICTS. 
Teno DIS RIG, 
The warden’s work in the first district is peculiar and this district 
is in fact a rather difficult one to manage. The district includes Cook 
County with its large commercial interest in game and fish, coming into 
Chicago daily from all parts of the country over a great number of 
railroads. It requires the constant watchfulness of two efficient men to - 
prevent contraband game and fish going to the larger commercial houses 
and cold storage plants. By persistently making seizures of illegal 
game and fish, the department has been able to prevent anything like 
serious shipments of illegal game and fish from getting on the market. 
In addition to covering the railroad depots it has been necessary 
to look closely after the wholesale houses, hotels and restaurants. 
After a year of persistent effort in the directions noted a better 
observance of the law has been followed. Another year it is hoped that 
people who make a practice of shipping game and fish to the Chicago 
market as well as those who receive it, will get the habit of strictly 
observing the law, so that the cost to the State of watching receiving 
points and men who receive game and fish by either freight or express 
will be greatly reduced. 
Chicago being a large and cosmopolitan city, it sends to the country 
ereat numbers of people who shoot or fish. In the immediate vicinity 
of Chicago there is little in the way of game birds to shoot. The hunters, 
however, give the departments a great deal of trouble in preventing 
them from shooting song and other non-game birds, which are fairly 
plentiful in season near Chicago. ; 
There are lakes and streams to be watched in Cook County in order 
to prevent the illegal taking of fish. As these waters are easily reached 
by men disposed to violate the law, it requires constant watchfulness 
on the part of the wardens to protect the fish in these waters. 
In the northern part of this district is the Fox Lake region, where 
both game and non-game fish are plentiful, and where wild fowl abound 
in season. To cover this territory and the adjacent waters of the Fox 
River to the south of Fox Lake, requires the services of three or four 
good wardens, who are able to run a launch. 
In the economical conduct of the hatchery located in this district, 
it will be necessary to have men in that section of the district available 
for temporary work in the fish hatching and distributing season. 
Other important sections of this district where good warden service 
is needed to protect the fish are Lake Michigan, the Kankakee and Des- 
