Williams news., 1915-10-07
INCREASING BIG GAME
 ON THE HORNADY PLAN
Forest Service says it means ten millions a year for the State.

Why should game be protected? Of what use is it, except to furnish pleasure to few cranks? It is bound to go any how, so why delay the process? The mental processes of the men who ask such questions are generally expressed in terms of dollars only. Accordingly, they had best be answered in terms of coin.
 Of what use is game? Ten mill ion dollars year, each for Arizona and New Mexico. This is a con- servative estimate of what the game animals, birds, ard fish of these two states ought to bring in when prop erly handled. Several states which have awakened to the value of these, resources are already realizing more than this, and one of them, Maine, is hardly larger than two or three southwes !ern counties. Now in this connection 1t is interesting to note that there has recently been some argument as to whether there is really h billion dollars worth off
 taxabl property in New Mexico. Supposing this billion to be earn
 ing ten percent, or one hundred million year. Now ask yourself whether ten million 8 year or more,
 brought into New Mexico by hunt
 CTS, fishermen, health see kers, na-
 ture-students and tourist S, would
 make any difference. Would it?
 When you have figured it out, go
 tell the man who asked "Of what
 use is gamer"
 Now everybody knows that the3 game resources of our state are at present too much decimated to fig ure as statewide economic asset. How can they be increased enough to bring us ten million 6 year? The answer to this question given by the game experts of the U. 5. Forest Service is, they claim, based not on theory, but on facts It has been done, and the method used by the states that have bone 1t are clear and plain. Briefly this meth- cd consists in good laws well enfor- ced, in pubic education, ih judic- ious artificial propagation, esp ecial- ly of fish, and in setting aside as game refuges all waste lands not otherwise used or needed, and stocking these refuges with valuable species which will multiply and O. verflow into adjoining regions.
 Take for example single game animal the Mexican mountain sheep, a species found no where else in the world. In a certain corner of certain National Forest, zealiously guarded by the Forest Rangers, is little band of thirty of tn csc splendid animals, the sole survivors of the great herds which once ranged on most of the rugged mountains of the Southwest. Supposing this pitiful remnant could be provided with permanent place of refuge, and actively and aggressivly protected, multiplied and transported to and then divided among half a dozen other places of refuge throughout its natural habitat, and there again protected and multiplied. In few years we would have enough to allow legitimate and restricted hunting of the overflow from the permanent refugees. Hunting Mexican Mountain Sheep. Can the lavman realize what drawing card this would be for Arizona or New Mexico? Does he know of the fortunes that are spent for single shot at the Marco Polo Sheep of China? The Chamois of the Alps? The Bison of Russia? The Antelopes of Africa? Or the Kadiak Bear of Alaska? Are these animals more noble, more wary, more beautiful, or more difficult than the Mexican Mountain Sheep
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