The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-07-30

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 full of swampS; and reindeer moss cS- scntial as reindeer forage iS noi
 found everywhere. An experiment iN about to be made of crossing wild caribou with the domestic decr in an attempt to break up the game specie.
 Brown" bears are included among the game animals in the present Alas kan law, and as such receive prOtcc- tion under the terms of the law. | concur with the general opinion O. the residents Of Alaska that all bear, should be eliminated from the list o' game animals. and that protection should be withdrawn from them.
 Brown bears on Kodiak island hay" killed domestic stock and menace tn"
 possibilities of establishing stOckrai&'
 ing as an industry. At present
 cattle have to be kept in fenced areas.
 because of the danger from bears. 1t
 will be difficult to establish stock
 raising anywhere in Alaska where brown bears exist. When salmon
 run up the rivers bears feed on thcnr and thus to a certain extent reduce the supply. Bears have killed ani manglcd many people in the woods and this source of danger to life ant
 limb should be removed. The eXter' imitation of bears. therefore would improve the possibilities of developing Alaska.
 "I have made an investigation to ascertain the opinions of sportsmen and others outside of Alaska for the
 purpose of understanding their req
 sons for wishing to continue the pro lection of these bears. They assert that where bears menace bona fide Stock-raising they should be destroyed On the other hand. however they in- sist that many of the reports Of bea'S iniuring men are exaggerated ant that while many reports have proVcd true, vet, considering the proportions of deaths and injuries to men by bealE' as compared with the numbers of pc)- pie who travelled in the regions where bars exist, it must be true that dan gerouS bears are most exceptional and that the chances of injury from them are very much less than from accl- dents from numerous other natural causes. They admit that bears k,il salmon, but believe that the toll O. salmon thus taken is not of much sig nificiancc in reducing the supply. They believe that the greater part of tho regions inhabited by bears is a will ierness. where the animals can do no harm. and that the reported dangers and damages by bears do not apply to much of the area where they live; that if protection were withdrawn from bears and their skins were thus com it would soon lead to the extermination of the animals in the coast regions; that the profit accru' ing from trading in these skins would then cease. and an asset most valu- able to Alaska would be lost forever; that Alaska and British Columbia will prove the last refuge of the big brown bears; that previouy to the war from Sl5,OO0 to $20.000 was spent by Out side sportsmen each year in Alaska for the sport of hunting. these bears. and that in the future the money to be expended for this purpose will largely increase. They also assert that by thus attracting outsiders to the country. many of whom are wealthy and interested in the wilder ness, an occasional one will invest in the resources of the country as some have done already; and that people who have hunted bears sometimes write book and thus advertise the country and make it known by report to others. Thus, indirectly they be- .ieve the bears wil prove to be an