The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-02
PUTS BAN ON
SALE OF GAME
Stringent Law Proposed to Pro-
tect Fish, Duck and Deer.
AGAINST DUMPING SAWDUST
FARMERS AND SHELTERS AT
ISSUE ABOUT FUMES.
AGAINST DUMPING SAWDUST

No game or game fish may be sold
in Utah after next summer if Pill
TO be introduced in the legislature to
day or tomorrow becomes a law. The
measure will be presented by Senator
Barber, who has prepared it in con-
ference with Fish Warden Hatcn- IN
der its terms if a man is hungry Tor
trout or veniSon he will either nave
to catch or shoot his game or receive 1t
as a present
A similar measure was introduced at
the last session of the legislature, but
failed of passage owing TO opposition
by Utah lake fishing interests. The
trainers of the present measure nave
aimed to disarm that opposition this
year by exempting from classification
as game fish the bass and other va
rieties which are caught in the large
lakes Of the state.
1T is the experience of fish and game
Wardens that nothing short of abso-
lutte prohibition of the sale of game
is effective for its protection" said
Senator Barber yesterday. "Unscrupu-
lcus dealers would buy or sell a nurs-
ing doe or the last pair of trout on
earth. As long as purchasing or ven
ding game is allowed, the strictest en-
fOrcement of game laws viii not SUI
flee for protecting the animals, fish
and fowl which the state tries to pre-
serve.
No Fishing in Closed Season.
1.-The measure / am to INTRODUCE not
only applies to fish, but to chicken,
duck, deer and all other protected
game. Fish raised in private ponds
are exempted, as are black bass and
| fish caught with nets in lakes.
Fishing in any stream in the state
| for any kind of fish is also prohibited
| during the close season. Heretofore
| fishermen have been pretending to
catch clubs and suckers, while in fact
/ they were taking out trout.
/ IAN old law prohibiting the dump
/ ing of sawdust or other refuse in
/ streams is also revived in this bill.
( The presence of sawdust in a stream
not only means death to the fish, but
involves the stopping up of water pipes
| and so forth. The old law was re-
/ pealed on the plea that the evil would
not amount to anything, but the con-
! ditiOns are such that it should be re-
! enacted"
Unseal Physicians Mouths.
/ Among the bills to be introduced this
week viii be one permitting disclOs-
ure by family physician in a per-
I sOnal injury case of the physical con-
dition of the plaintiff in d suit for
I damages. Hitherto the law has re-
! garded communications by a patient
/ to his or her physician as secret and
] llNlOldDit. duu IL mas Deeu the pTlNl-
] lege of the physician to refuse to
/ testify concerning a patients cOndi-
ton. Should the proposed law be en-
J acted. the seal would be removed from
/ the doctors lips and he would be re-
quired to tell all he knew, upon oath
concerning the physical condition OF
! his ward.
! Smelling companies and farmers are
! strongly at issue before the legisla-
! ture concerning the destructive fumes
which issue from shelters. Moisture
! in the atmosphere, uniting with the
/ SulpurOus V2pOrs, forms sulphuriC
acid which promptly kills all vegetable
/ life with which it comes in contact
/ Vast fields OF corn and grain havs
/ been devastated by the poisonous
/ agency as the result of days damp
ness or an hours rain in summer.
! The farmers insist they were settled
( in their respective vicinities twenty
/ years before the smelters came and
/ that they have rights to prior con
! sideration. On the other hand. the
smelters urge that the absorption OF
! the fumes in the water and the absorb
/ tion of the water in the earth would
1 involve an epense of at least 81 a tor
/ Of ore, and that the expense would have
! to come out of their patrons, the min
! ers VINO object strenuously. The sui
phuric acid produced is not sufficiently
duct, and the contamination cannot be
turned into streams without destroy
/ ing the fish and endangering the ex.
istence of any human beings or live.
/ stock who may drink its waters.