The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-26
GAME LOVERS
WANT CHANGE
IN THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM
Whole Time on Work Should Be
Given Salary Worth Labor.

Salmon are running in the Yakima
river. They have been at Prosser for
some time but were unable to get over
the dam because OF the condition of
the water. They are now travelling
up the river and a number have been
seen. Some photographs have been
taken by expert photographers of the
leaping fish at the dams they encoun-
ter in their efforts to get well up to
the shadows.
There are fish. also, in the irriga-
ton bitches, which are now exacting
their toll of the game resources OF
the state. A day or two ago a a.
inch rainbow trout was taken from
the Naches and Cowiche ditch on
Mob Hill and long strings of smaller
fish have fallen victims to the boys
who know how to get them out. The
agitation in favor of screening bitches
continues among the sportsmen but
has taken no definite shape and in
the meantime the fish which have
been planted are being lost for all
time, as having once entered the
bitches their fate is sealed.
Infcrtilc Pheasant Eggs.
Discovery of several nests of Chin
csc pheasants containing infertile
eggs has also reused considerable in
dignation. Last fall a number of cock
birds were shot and their plumage
now adorns the headwear of local
residents addicted to highfalutin dec
Grafton. The Chinese pheasant is not
polygamous and the result is that
many of the birds which would have
reared broods this season will not
do so. In view of the fact that every
imported bird now at liberty in this
country cost several dollars it has
always been considered by the real
sportsmen that those who killed them
before they had an opportunity to re-
produce, merely because an accident
in the law made it legal, were lacking
in ethics. With regard to the Hun
garian cartridges released this spring
it is said that the birds are doing we'll
but making no efforts TO rear young.
They may later hatch Il brood this
fall.
Sportsmen are considering the adj
visibility of asking the county COM
misioners to double the payment Ct
the game warden and in this way pro-
cure the services of man who will
make it worth his while to see that
the laws are enforced. The money
procured last year from licenses was
sum will be doubled in a year or Two
as every one who carries a gun is
liable to arrest otherwise. These was
when the present warden was ap-
pointed coupleof months ago, a
credit of about $500 to the game
fund. Within the past year and a
half some 81 400 have been expended
in purchasing game for the county.
1t is considered the part of wisdom,
considering the sizeof the annual Ii
cense fund and the fact that the coun-
ty is filled with birds which will seed
themselves if given a chance, to spend
more money in protection which does
protect than by wasting half that
amount annually and by buying birds
for the reckless and the Indifferent to
kill. This is a matter to which the
sportsmen are giving considerable
serious thought: this and the matter
of slaughter of the trout through the
irrigation bitches.
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