Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-18
GAME BIRDS AND FISHES.
important Conference of Sportsmen To.
Day with the Fish Commissioners.
There was to have been a business meet.

important Conference of Sportsmen To-
| Day with the Fish Commissioners.
There was to have been a business meet
ing of the State Board of Fish Commission
ers yesterday, but it was postponed until
to-day. At 10 o'clock this morning the
Board will meet in the Supreme Court
room at the State Capitol, and extends a
pressing invitation to sportsmen and all
persons interested in the propagation and
preservation of fishes and game to be
| present and express their views on the
| various matters to be considered.
At its meeting last month the Board
adopted and published the following ad-
dress to sportsmen on the subject of the
| importation of foreign" game birds-that
is, birds not native to this State:
To Tie rariouS gun clubs and to all sportsmen of
me STATE: The Fish Commissioners of the State
of California are by an Act of the Legislature,
approved March IT, 1889, charged with the duty
oflmporting into the State various game birds
for propagation. Among these are wild turkeys,
well known game birds. For the purposes of
the law, the sum of 81 600 is appropriated by the
Legislature, to be used by the State Board of
Fish Commissioners in defraying the costs Incl
dental TO said importation.
The birds, when procured. will be distributed
throughout the State in such quaint les and to
such Localities as from their best information
may. to the Board, seem proper And for the
purpose of obtaining this information, the
proper officers of all gun clubs and other sport
ing associations. as well as all individuals feel
ing an interest in the objects of this scheme to
stock the State with game birds non-existent
here are respectfully invited to correspond with
the State Board of Fish Commissioners P. o.
box 321 Sacramento, Cal, and offer such sug-
gestions as they deem best touching any matters
relating to this subject. Like suggestions are
also invited from the press of this and other
States, to the end that this laudable endeavor of
the Legislature may be made entirely success
full.
The regular monthly meeting of the Board
wilt be held at the State Capitol Sacramento
on Tuesday, September II. 1889, at which time
representatives of the clubs and Others inter
ested are invited to meet with the Board for
consultation on this subject.
JOSEPH REUTER-,
j. DowNEY HARVEY
commissioners.
Commissioner Rouiier, in an interview
yesterday with RECORD UNION reporter,
said he had learned from a gentleman who
had resided for many years in Australia,
that there is in that country species OF
quail much larger than any of the Ameri-
can varieties, which is noted for its fine
table qualities and is also close lying
bird, atfording the best possible sport for
those who shoot over dogs. 1t is his in
tention to urge the Board to import some of
them, to be turned loose in this State. He
also favors the introduction of japanese
pheasants from Oregon. He says that if
the sportsmen should find that they are de-
structive to the native quail or otherwise
undesirable, The laws protection can be
withdrawn, and the birds would not be
long in getting killed off.
These are all matters of great interest to
sportsmen, and it is to be hoped that they
will respond to the Commissioners invita-
IN tN ha 4 s,,,, L. IL,
benefit of their views thereon.
The Board will also consider other subjects
within its jurisdiction, among them that of
the case of a smelling company in Calaveras
county, the DRAWINGS of whose mills into
one of the streams have killed off the trout
in vast numbers. The owners of the mill
were prosecuted in local Court and es-
capped conviction, but, finding that the Fish
Commissioners proposed to follow them up
in another county, are now ready and will
ing to make overtures to the Board for a
settlement of the case.