The morning call., 1892-02-17
FISH AND GAME LAWS.
Proposed Convention to Consider
Amendments.
The Gun Club Elects officers and Arranges
the Handieaps- Oregon Pheasants
Increasing Rapidly.

Ramon E. Wilson of tie Fish and Game
Commission has suggested the desirability
OF holding a spOrtsmen's convention some
time this year TO consider some proposed
changes in, the fish laws.
at is hardly possible" said Mr.. Wilson.
''to improve upon the legislative en- actments
now in force regulating the close seasons
for game, but the commission proposes to
ask The next Legislature to modify the reg
ulations in reference to fish.
'In the counties on the west side of the
Serras much of the water In the streams is
used for mining and irrigating purposes. and
the King, Kern and other rivers are often
drained almost dry. The result is that
many fish are destroyed.
DESTROYING THE TROUT.
1T doesn't matter much about the carp
and catfish, but we are considerably exer-
cised about the trout. In spawning time it
is natural for the trout to leave the main
streams and seek quiet spots in the smaller
brooks, which are most frequently drained
by minors and farmers.
las remedy it is proposed to force peo-
pie who have irrigating bitches or who di-
vert the waters Of streams into artificial
channels to place screens at the head of
these bitches. so that the fish may be pre-
served People who live near the American,
Iuba and Feather rivers, aud who have the
true SportSman's instinct, would favor the
precauti0n suggested, but there would
doubtless be some opposition from ranchers,
who would be troubled more or less by the
accumulation Of debris around the screen.
ANOTHER AMENDMENT
The game law could be advantageously
amended to permit the officers of the com
mission, when required, to trap game birds
rs we do fish for propagating purposes. IL
this privilege were allowed us we could
proftably exchange birds and obtain new
varieties from other States and counties.
Il think we should have special appro-
priati0n TO introduce some birds, such as
pheasantS. which could be procured in Ore
gon. The opinion of the sportsmen of the
State could be obtained at the proposed con-
yentlon Oh these and other pertinent mat
tiers, and it would bring these gentlemen
into direct contact with the commissioners,
which would probably prove mutually bene-
fCial."
CLUB ELECTION.
The Gun Club, n shooting organization
which numbers among its members some of
the crack Sh5ts Of the city, has made COM
plete arrangements for the seasons trap
shooting. 1t has elected officers as follows:
President, +. ). Butler; Vire-President, j.
.. Cadman; Secretary aud Treasurer, John
h. Orr; Executive Commlttee-R. A. Eddy,
j. .. Cadman and Hiram Black.
The handicaps of the season are: Thirty
yards-H. Babcock, +. S. Bnter, j. O. Cad
man, +. w. Chaplin, j. Ii. Jellett, X. b.
Wood ward. G. ID. Laing. John K Orr +.
q. SanborD, +. ii. SWEET, F. w. TalIant f.
L. Wooster. Twenty eight yards-H Black,
L. DOnOhoe, w J Goleher, a. Hamilton,
j. NJ. kilgariff L. n. Moor, F. H. Webster.
W. b. Bourn. Il. A. Eddy. d. g. Gillette Jr.,
J. Downey Haryev, George Lewiston, A. c.
Tubbs, II. ". Woodward. Twenty-six
yaTds-Nillam Lewiston and j. B. Riordan
FEATHERED FIGHTERS.
letter from Portland. Oregon, states
that the Chinese pheasants that were some
years since imported by ex-MiRister Denny
OF Oregon have spread all over the VILLAIN
cite Valley. and are now TO be found in
such large numbers that they are becoming
an ANNOYANCE 10 tile farmers.
SIX different species. says the writer,
were imported, golden. the green, the
ring and the silver, proving the more
hardy and better suited 10 that locality.
The birds have multiplied at an enormous
rate, each female, under favorable circum-
stances, producing two or three broods each
season, Of from a dozen to eighteen birds
each. The cock birds are very courageous
fellows and will fight anything even going
tothe farmers baTnyards and whipping their
champion ROSTERS.