Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-12-12
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Huron, Dee Under the proxts.
Ions Of q new game and fisll law.
drawn up last evening by the sports-
men 81 the state meeting inE this city.
all Of the county game ri ardens will
be out Of 4 lob al soon as ttl1e pro-
posed measure becomes effective The
meeting Of sportsmen called Ia this
city by State Game Warden W.
Bancroft concluded its business Last
evening and adjourned The meeting
drafted, section BY section. u new
game and fish law, which was copied
In many respects from the Minnesota
law with such differences as were
necessary Suggestions we're ais3
made Tor the expenditure of the game
fund, and 4 state game commission
was suggested. 81
"a, a. Cobnrn OF Deadwood, IA. III.
Wyman of Yankton, r. u. Bramble of
WatertoWn, T. II Null Of Huron, Fred
Youngberg OF Brookings ID. Norbeck
of Platte and Charles Woodland &c
Sansarc made up the committee on
sdrafting the new law together with
the state game ward den.S ne NEE ting
recommends state game ana ffsi,
commission, made up of thrse men,
one Of whom Is to be the state game
warden. These com nissionara win
serve forssix years, one to bes selectea
every two vars.
County Wardens Go out.
Under thu new law the county game
wardens win be dispensed With and
the state commission VIII employ such
help az is needed to enforce the laws.
It is believed that special agents rep.
resenting the state can do better work
than local men ia this capacity, and
In the new arrangement there viii al-
SO be a considerable salary saving,
The open season for prairie chickens
has been changed, It now being from
September to December This
ssg'sasss done because of the more or less
migratory nature Of these birds, un.
der the old law the south thern part of
the state getting no chicken shooting
before the close of the short season.
The season for grouse viii now Be
from September 20 to November 40
which u the same as the deer sesl.
son: For deer the bag limit remains
the same one animal Neither has
any change been made In the provis-
Ions regarding licenses For fish the
only closed season now is during the
months Of April and May.
For ii, Elk Preserve
Il Reg arding the uses to which the
state game fund be put the meeting
made several suggestions. The am
cunt OF S2O, 900 should be expende ed for
q fish hatchery, located somewhere
east Of the Missouri river Fh,om
experiments carefully made 1T has
been found that game fish viii not
pass through fishways III dams, and
the only way id which the streama
sea,th na lot n be well
stocked, 1t is thought, Is BY having
q fish hatchery. 1t Is recommended
also that ssl0, 900 Of the fund be used
to fence In several thousand acres
of Black Hills land and to procure
Ia supply 81 elk from Wyoming to
stock the preserve With The idea in
this connection Is to raise as much
EEof this game as possible. whenever
the preserve becomes overstocked
turning It loose. AZ least s 10 900 is rel
omnenaed to be expended for the
prop tion o wild fowl in the east,
ern half of the state This refers
IS all game birds. hut especially to
pheasants l55.
From the rapiilty With which the
game faInd has acc ted In tie
past is believed thai there viii
'be anple money obtaina Bile to keep
these three sugg ggestiona up, psftic-
|EilIarly With the add ftion 81 that saved
ION county game wardens ID Iaries.