The Alaska daily empire., 1919-11-18
The Game Question
(ValdeZ Miner


 Dr. w. T. Hornaday, alleged director of the New York Geological Park" has broken loose again and the intereence one would draw al.er re tha seeks to make vast game reserve of the territory without regard for the right of those who dwell there
 Indeed the venerable preserver of game goes even further in his numerous allegation of conditions ID Alaska. and ayers that the inhabitants or the lerii tory systematically footing the Territory or lt natural resources, with the intention of gathering their wares and penates and treking to the states when they have accumulated sufficient of this treas ure supposed to lie here for the taking.
 Which is another argument why the savior ot wild game should not be allowed to talk or writ vouaby a subject he knows not of
 He cites instance where 6,OoO pounds of wilt game fed to laborers on the government rall way. He forgets to state, however, that the Mcclure party several other scientific parties which late more than this and wasted the greater part of it These parties hunt more for the pleasure of killing because he must have fresh meat One party or hunt CTS from the States wastes game than all tho hunters and prospectors in Alaska Even the natives everything but the below of moose
 The doctor again refers to action taken up wltf the game club at Juneau. The man who hunts around the Southeastern part of Alaska does so for pure sport He is within two days of the markets of the States with numerous ships with cold storage facilities Tho residents north of Sixty-two hunt from necessity And to enough fresh meat to last through tn he must necessarily violate the game law by killing more than the legal bag in day. " The 'I sulzer game bill which the doctor boasts defeating was one of the most sensible bills yet pre- scented in Congress. It provided that man wit
  he compelled to throw it away but could use through the closed when the prospector an miner has time to hunt, and when game Is breed ing and unfit to kill. Meat must be stored in tn Fall to be good, and enough must be stored to las until the game is in good condition the next Fall Under the laws proposed by pr. Hornaday ma with game in his possession at the end of the seaso was liable to fine and. cOnfiscation of the meat { fine law for the settlement of a new country wher' game is the only meat the settler sees the yea around
 Alaska should have a game law for each divis ion. The laws for the First Division should be diff ferent than those of the Second, Third and Fourth
 The laws for the Fourth and the Second shoul be restrictive than those of some localities II the Third. When remembers that the Third Di vision is thousand more miles across and iron two to three hundred miles wide it be seen tha variety of laws must apply to this one Divisio, alone.
 The law regarding the sale of game is right fl many localities and wrong fin many. It depends O the degree of settlement For instance it should unlawful to sell game in Valdez but legal to se game twenty miles away in a mining camp. It better for the mine operators to buy game from tn Natives than to attempt to feed his men bacon an salt meats all summer. If the men were forced t. kill their game work would be done in tn mines.
 After long residence in Alaska can truth fully say that the writer has less game wastet here than in any State in the Union. The Easter sportsman has no excuse for killing; the Alaskan must kill to live.
 law that is needed more than any other on Is one preventing Eastern sportsmen under the guk of scientific parties from entering the Territor. and indiscriminately slaughtering everything from nanny goat to a black bear with unprime fur ,ne year in the interior district he will be qualie to write game preservation. He will also fin hat many Aaskans have intention of leaving shis being the only home desired