The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-02-15
ABOUT FISH AND GAME.
John D. Losekamp Tells the Record
What Should Be Done.

There is probably no letter posted
man in this section of Montana on the
question of fish and game than Hon.
D. Losekamp of this city. Mr.. Lose
kamp has been spending several weeks
at the state capital and a Record re-
porter had the following interview
With him.
"There are 200 lakes within an area
thirty miles square in the Beartooth
mountains south Of Red Lodge on the
southeast edge of Park county that
have no fish in them except those
planted by me in October a year ago."
said John D. L%osekamp of Billings.
''These lakes are at an altitude of
from 1000 to 5000 feet. At least
seventy-fve of these lakes should be
stocked with fish.
"My belief is that DR.. J. Fl. Hem
shall of Bozeman, United States SUBJ
fish commissioner, has the interests of
fish propagation entirely at heart" MI.
Losekamp continued. ''but the govern
ment does not furnish enough money
to carry out the needs of the hatch
cries in the west. The sub-hatchery at
Bozeman should be enlarged ten times
to meet the requirements Of this state.
For instance, as I have said, in the
country adjacent to the Beartooth
mountains south of Red Lodge are
900 lakes that have no fish in them ex-
cept what I planted there. To supply
these lakes with fish necessitates pack
horse transportation. My experience
is that So per cent of the fish to be
planted are lost in this hazardous mode
Of transportation. To overcome this
the Red Lodge district tshould have a
sub-fish hatchery so the eggs could be
Matched near these lakes. The last
trip I made with 25 pack horses cost
me $685."
Mr.. Losekamp is an enthusiastic
sportsman. He is not only a fisherman
but a hunter. He is sad because the
farmers near his home have been kill
ing his ''bob whites.
"All the quail in Montana have been
imported, =" said he. II started some
ut my home. They breed fast and fly
% Or 80 miles a day for feed. Far
mers living 80 miles from me have
told about killing bob whites these
fellows with topknots. I told them
they were my quail, that I was trying
to introduce them in that section so
that in a few years we may have
quail hunting. But the farmers kill
them off. There should be some pro-
lection for quail.
CHOW, the Chinese pheasant is the
gamest bird we have. They fly as
fast as teal duck. If they were intro
duced and properly protected here in a
few years we should have the finest
hunting in the west. The state of
California appropriated money for
5000 pair of these pheasant. This
state should do something of that sort.
every person who comes into the
state to hunt should be required to
pay a license of $25. What shooting
the farmers do, as a rule, does not
amount to two bits. But they are
death on quail. The killing of them
should be prohibited for five years.
There is sound Sense in protecting our
fish and game. In the state Of Maine
a year ago there were counted out OF
season 1880 deer in one county. THAT
shows what strict laws for the protec-
ton of game does. Germany protects
its carp with stringent laws and it is
her boast that the protection of the
carp industry is one of the greatest
achievements of the nation and could
stand a siege of ten years on the fish
sunOlied nv it's streamS-o
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