Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-11-17
AGITATION FOR
NEW GAME LAW
EXISTING STATUTES WILL RRos.
ABLY BE AMENDED WHEN
LEGISLATURE ASSEMBLIES
GAME GROWING SCARCE
special IN Tie oplle.

Albuquerque. Nov. IT.~Whea tho
territorial legislature ASSEMBLIES again
there In probability tAat the existing
game laws vii H. amended. The mat.
ter of game protection In engaging
the attention Ut spoEtamen generally
throughout the territory. among whom
there exists a sentiment which INV.
ors the shaping III tha territorial game
laws along thu lInex of thosa adopted
by states at the middle west and sey.
eral nearer the Pacific, The first Of
these include Illinois. Michigan. wis.
cousin. Missouri. oaio and Arkansas,
while Colorado n a notable example
of the latter.
In these states the nonresident
shooter In prohibited from killing
game or fishing during any season.
open or closed. unless be first pro-
cures q nonresident hunters license.
Tor which he pays a nominal fee Of
from $40 to s2s. depending upon the
amount fixed b. Inv.
Territorial Game Warden W. E.
Griffith % Santa Fe Is known 10 be In
hearty accord with such remedial leg.
isiation and the sentiment IL spread.
Ing among sportsmen wherever tho
matter Is preached.
A feature II the amendments 20
the game Law win perhaps be the re-
strlctIon Of the number OF game birds
or animals which ono may take I'm q
day or season Tin the ease Of deerl.
This In aimed at the sportsman who
shoots more for ioye Oh killing and
continues to destroy after he had shot
enough for his family and Immediate
friends. %@<~ = ~ s==s~ ~
The game laws NJ New Mexico now
prohibit the sale of any kind Of game
killed m the territory during an open
Or closed season and with the propos.
I'd amendments framed after the fore
going, New Mexico win have N eff
cient and protective game laws an
any state I'm the union.
From the statements OF well known
sportsmen In different parts of the
territory Ii is evident that New Mex
ico's once plentiful game Ia getting
TO be scarce and the need Of such leg
islation Is becoming more apparent
every day.
This remedial legislation has work.
ed wonders I'm the states where the
laws are In effect. Illinois was the
first TO enact q hunters license law.
Its game, which was well aight ex-
terminated, has multiplied until there
II no longer a scarcity Of quail and
the almost forgotten prairie chicken,
protected from slaughter for five
years, Is again appearing In numbers
In many sections Of the state. The
state game fund last year contained
s127,0oo. after the salaries Of all the
officers had been paid.
The resident shooter, too. h. re-.
auired TO take out license for the
privilege OF killing game, but the II
cense In his case In considerably less.
IL usually amounts to from one TO-
two dollars. @*
There In n two fold purpose I'm
charging these licenses. First the law
operates tn exclude In large meas
ure the nonresident hunter, and sec
ond. the money realized from the sale
Of licenses forms the largest part Of
a state fund which In expended In
salaries OF game wardens. allows them
more deputies to assist In enforcing
the laws. II is also used for the propa-
cation OF species Of game birds and
and In the. Matching OF fish !
adapted TO ne waters sof this state.
The number Of hunters Il reduced and
the killing of same Il therefore re-
stricted while the man who uses gan
or rod must pay hts part toward the
protection and pagation Of the +
game and fiaf so tho rule works two
ways. II
Wisconsin game laws are framed
after the Illinois statutes and the
state game fund was increased $7s, 600