The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-15
STATE GAME WARDEN
MAKES HIS REPORT
STATE RECEIVED $120,509.48 FOR
GAME FUNDS DURING YEAR
JUST CLOSED

L. E. Brooks, deputy state game
warden for Latah county, has sub
mitted the following report by the
state game warden, Otto M Jones
showing the enormous amount col
lected by the game department OF
the state during the year. This will
be a surprise to many persons as
few had any idea of the amount OF
business transacted by the fish and
game department Of Idaho. The re-
view of the work, as. submitted by
State Game Warden Jones, follows:
The legislature makes no provls-
ions for the maintenance of running
expenses of this bureau. Our reve-
nue. is derived entirely from the sale
of fish and game license and permits,
from fines and confiscations and
from miscellaneous sources. All
moneys received on account OF the
above OF from the sale of personal
property owned by the fish and game
bureau, for which there is found to be
of no further use, and all other funds
arising from moneys from whatso-
ever source or sources are turned
over to the state treasurer and by
him set aside Of credited by him to
what is know as the fish and game
fund. All money SO set aside is to
be appropriated or used for the sole
purpose of defraying the expenses of
the bureau including all debts incur
red in carrying out the purpose or
objects of the law, the restocking of
streams and propagation of game,
etc.
The fund above referred to might
properly be termed sportsman fund
or trust fund. The state game war
den acts as trustee and in this capa-
city, not only must account for all
moneys received but also expended
with the approval of the board of
examiners) in such manner as will,
in his judgment, protect the fish and
game or promote the interest of his
constituents, the sportsmen of the
state of Idaho.
It is therefore with pardonable
pride that point to the large reve-
nue., amounting to $120,50948 receiv-
ed during the year of 1919, all but
$11, 108.98 of which was derived from
the sale of licenses and permits, and
which shows an increase over that of
1918, of $48.20096. Other sources of
revenue, were from fines and con-
fiscations, the sale of beaver hides,
Hepburn Park timber, leases, graz
ing fees, from commissions saved
and from miscellaneous sources.
Too often in compiling statistics
covering the revenues or receipts as
of different years, unfair compari-
sons are made. For instance, it could /
be said that we. are now receiving |
ST.. so each for residence license,
where they formerly sold for $1.00 i
and that this might occasion or ac-
count for the wide difference in reve- |
nue.. This fact would make some diff |
ference, but it must also be taken |
into consideration, that while the |
resident licenses were raised fifty |
cents, nonresident fish and game
licenses were reduced from twenty
five dollars to ten dollars, non-resid-
ent fish licenses from SIS to So, non
resident bird licenses from $3.50 to
IS, so, that while the increase in
price of resident licenses would have
added nearly $4,000 to our receipts
FOR 1919, therefore, even on this
oasis, there would be a balance in
savor of the revenues of 1919 over
hat of 1918, amounting approximate
y to $4,000
In this connection, might add that
Turing the year 1918 there was re-
.eived from the sale of timber and
sources, from Hey
'urn Park, the sum of $20,825.37 !
While during the year 1919 the total
evenue received from Hepburn J
lark was but $3698.13 so, to make !