The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-31
FISH AND GAME.
Well Attended Meeting of Sports
men Considers the Proposed Law.

men Considers the Proposed Law.
A meeting of the third house was
held last evening in the room occupied
by the police court. The object of the
gathering, which was composed of per-
sons from all over the state, was the
making of changes in the fish ana
game law which is before the leglsla-
ture for passage. Frank B. Stephens
presided over the meeting, which was
made up of at least a hundred sports
men.
The bill. as presented to the lower
house, was the measure under consid-
GRAFTON. 1t was discussed by eX-Com-
missioner Barrett, a. Milton Musser,
Mr.. Browning, Jack May, John Q. Can
non Mr.. Bradley, Mr.. Burton, Mr..
Haws, of Cache and large delegation
from Ogden, and other points.
The house will scarcely recognize the
bill when it comes to it with all the
changes which have been made, still
there are no radical innovations. The
meeting decided that it was best for
the fish interests of the state to have
the closed season extend from October
10 to July /. This was done by reason
of the fact that many fish are not over
the spawning season until late in the
early summer.
any intention of interfering with pri-
vate ponds; whether the provisions of
the bill viii apply to them. He stated
he had been at great expense in fitting
up a pond and filling it with fish. He
wanted the right to take therefrom for
his own use at any time. The eX-com-
missioner stated the law did not intend
to apply to any one owning a private
pond; that it could not be made to
apply to private stores of fish.
The law as amended by. this meeting
reads that it shall be unlawful for any
person to have in his possession any
trout or bass less than six inches in
length in the open season or any fish
at all in the closed season.
The killing of deer, elk. antelope,
buffola, ETC., is prohibited for % term of
three years There was discussion
on this point, Mr. Cannon moving to
exempt deer from the section and al
low them to be killed in season as has
been the custom. He stated that deer
drifted toward the reservations where
they were killed by the Indians and
believed a white man should have the
same chance a red one did. But the
meeting decided against him, the gen
eral opinion being that the law would
be enforced as against the Indians as
we'll as the whites.
Inc duck season opens under the
provisions of the suggested amendment
on the LIST of October and closes on
the last day of March. There was a
great deal of discussion over this mat
ter, too. 1t was stated by one of the
delegates from Weber, that at the
mouth of the Bear river last fall from
1000 to 10000 ducks were killed and
shipped. This would not have been
deemed so very bad but there was no
care taken by the pot hunters who lived
there Of the young or the eggs. Do
nestle animals were allowed to run
loose and destroy both.
A section was adopted providing for
the prevention of allowing saw dust to
run into any of the streams of the
state and fish runs We're made a ne
cessity on all dams where the fish war
den shall deem them required.
The penalty for violation of the game
law is fixed at not less than So nor
more than 5000 or by imprisonment in
the county jail for a term of ten days
or sixty days, or both fine and impris-
onment
The bill as amended will be reported
to the committee of both houses aft a
meeting which will be held at an early
day.