Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-02-12
GAME LAW
CHANGES
PROPOSED LEGISLATION NOT
FOR GAME BENEFIT
Law Should Tend to Further
Protect

There seems to be disposition to
radically change the game laws of
this State. A bill proposed before
the Assembly is under consideration
and it fails to meet the approval of |
the class that is known as sporting |
men; those who love the gun and dog, |
and those who obey the laws.
The bill. if it passes, will do away
with the main feature of the present
law, hat of selling game. 1t took all
kinds Of work on the part of inter |
ested parties two years ago to insert
the provision forbidding the sale of
game, and is the vital point Of
the law as it now stands. Without
this provision, the law or any law is
useless, as it breaks down the wall
and lets the market hunter deplete
the work that the true sportman en-
beavers to keep up.
Nearly every State in the Union has
passed a law forbidding the sale of
| game by market hunters, and where
| the law is lived up to- the game and
wild birds are Showing an increase.
Game laws should be framed to pro-
! tect the birds to the utmost The law
cannot be made too binding and favor
able to the feathered tribe, as the
efficiency of the gun and powder has
grown with every year and the de
struction Of the game grows heavier.
! Many members Of the Legislature
+, have seen the buffalo and wild pc
all on account of lack Of laws
to prevent and regulate wanton de
struction, and if the laws of Nevada
do not help the birds and other wild
game, the same condition will even
tually exist in this section.
! The present winter has about de-
stroved all the quail il. this section.
and laws should be passed further
J protecting this class of birds. The
deer have also suffered Nevada has
but few deer in her mountains and
! should the proposed change take
place, there will be no deer left in
the State few years. This sec
] ton Of the bill should be eliminated
D from the bill Hide and market hunt
: ers are responsible for the scarcity O.
= game in general and if given a fret
e rope they will further destroy tn,
e wild life that now exists. The mar
d ket hunter as a class is about tn
most undesirable inhabitant Of tn,
: State and it seems strange that h.
e should be given a privilege in thi
e State that is denied in others. If tn
q market man vents u hunt as other
II for tho .c,e OF recreation and pleas
Q ure Of t-a,nping the fields, he SHOULD
O be able to do SO with the same re
6. strictions as the man who takes tn
IS day off in the fields fer the love c
S. sport and good health.
IL Keep the restrictions down as clos
IF as possible and regulate the law fo
IS all. Too many restrictions cal
ot not be added and too many libertie
to will undo the work that has take
or good judgment to perform.
The government took a hand in til
matter a few years ago and passe
the Lacey BILL which prevents tt
transportation of game from OF
io State to the other. This was aime
" at the market hunter and has been
Id good piece of legislation. If the go
or eminent can afford to legislate a
ainst market hunting, surely the Sta
Of Nevada can follow suit and s.
ns that her laws carry out the princiI
that the government is establishir