Western field . ago, however, he advocated the I can not do better than quote the Commis-sioners own words on the question of fish andgame preservation: Too much importance can not be placedupon the desirability of keeping our mountainstreams and lakes well supplied with fish, andour forests with game. Indirectly it will be oneof our great commercial resources. There is noclass of people who spend money so freely asthose who seek enjoyment along our mountainstreams with rod and reel, and our wooded hillswith dog and gun. Our State is now inhabitedby a class of people who can afford and demandt
Western field . ago, however, he advocated the I can not do better than quote the Commis-sioners own words on the question of fish andgame preservation: Too much importance can not be placedupon the desirability of keeping our mountainstreams and lakes well supplied with fish, andour forests with game. Indirectly it will be oneof our great commercial resources. There is noclass of people who spend money so freely asthose who seek enjoyment along our mountainstreams with rod and reel, and our wooded hillswith dog and gun. Our State is now inhabitedby a class of people who can afford and demandthis pastime. Not alone should our State bewell supplied with trout hatcheries, but eachhatchery should be equipped with a game propa-gating station. This can be done with verylittle expense; the same superintendent wholooks after the fish could also attend to thegame. It is done in Oregon and I can see noreason why it can not be done here. * * * WhenI took charge of the Department of Fisheries 150 WESTERN FIELD. AT ANCHOR. and Game, my attention was first called to therapid inroads being made upon our game andthe fast depletion of our mountain streams oftheir finny tribes. The great prosperity of ourState during the last few j-ears had broughtwithin her borders men of wealth, men ofleisure, men who do not believe life is madeup entirely from a commercial standpoint, menwho ©elieve the serious side of life should bebrightened by out-door sports, to whom wildgame in the forest, the majestic trees, theplacid lake and the bubbling brook in whichwild game and fish abound, appeal to them inall their grandeur and beauty. As we look withpride upon this great influx of wealth, prosperityand civilization within our State, we realize,with doubtful misgivings, that it was the causeof the disappearance of the Rainbow and theCutthroat from cur mountain streams, and thedeer and elk from the wooded hills. We real-ized then, that, if within a few years our gamedid not become extinct, heroic me
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