Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-21

tnat city.
"Did You read Manager Judkins'
interview on the license question -"
asked Chairman Carleton. yesterday.
Nv. JuGkins is manager Of the kinen
House, Moosehead lake. and is out rat-
footed in favor OF law taxing non
resiHent sportsmen who visit Maine fur
the purpose If hunting big game"
Investigation disclosed the fact that
Manager Judkins has been opposed to
the project and his change of heart is
explained in the following Interview
18th him. recently published in Main"
Weeds.
The law requiring non-residents to
cake registered guides into the woods
With Them. practically amounts to moth
ing IS far as the preventing of pot
hunters from Indiana. Illinois and
other western states from coming here
is concerned, simply because a dozen.
perhaps twenty, comes in one party.
and employ one guide merely to cover
themselves from the law. This guide
loafs around camp or does the work
while the members Of the party spend
their time hunting. absolutely without
supervision of any sort. Then again. a
great many Of them go To a sporting
camp, 50 called and hunt round about
in the section near at hand without |
guides. Any one who has $500 can get
a license and take any old log hut in |
the woods and call it sporting camp. !
Residents of sporting camps are not /
required to have guides.
The Canadian Pacific railways sells |
very low round trip tickets from the /
middle states here, and checks entire
camp equipment both ways. as we'll as
returning any game that may be shot
The result is that hundreds of these |
so-called SportSmen come to Maine |
from these western states, simply To !
kill ana take out two nice deer anyway, |
and q moose and Il bear, if they can do |
so The game secured is sold mostly |
to markets and taXidermiStS. This |
gives d clear idea of what these chaps |
arc.
IF this thing keeps up for any length !
Of time the State viii soon be without !
it's great game resources. In Conse- !
ouenre. | believe d nonresident tax |
should be imposed on all hunters. | !
see no other way, all things considered |
to get around this point. We have |
tried different laws and failed. | would |
suggest making the tax $I5 and allow !
ing all the present privileges.
This would also make the woods q |
great deal safer to hunt in reducing the |
number of cases Of accidental shooting. |
keeping out this undesirable class, and |
AZ the same time. ii would be protec- |
tion for big game. 1t would also pro |
Il f4,4sol
service. permitting of protection from
known violations during the winter in
particular, and the season round as
well. This would ensure a steady in |
crease of big game and fine hunting in
the state for an i-4definite period.
TO my mind this must be done or
the State must cut the number of deer !
allowed to each sportsman down to one. |
but | believe the nonresident tax would |
h, the more satisfactory. because ii Will |
bring a revenue which the game com |
mission sadly needs. and this in turn,
would make needed warden service |
possible
Il believe every true sportsman VIII
support such a measure. and would
favor it in preference to restricting the
killing to one deer This change has
come slowly. because efforts have been
made to keep up the game supply with
out additional restrictions, but these
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