The diamond drill., 1920-05-22
STATE GAME WARDEN HAS CALLED
ONE FOR THE UPPER PENINSULA
IRON COUNTY SAYS CLOSE
A Large Delegation Will Attend The
Hearing to Urge The Conser-
vation of Our Deer

AS may be seen from a legal notice
appearing in another column OF this
issue, the state fish and game warden
Will hold hearing at Marquette next
month for the purpose OF learning II
the people OF the upper peninsula
counties really want the killing OF
deer stopped.
Iron county, along with the other
counties OF the peninsula petitioned,
through It's board OF supervisors, to
have the season closed for a period SO
as TO allow the deer to increase i'm
numbers. The immense number OF
hunters that come to the upper pc
ninsula each fall will surely kill of
all the deer within a very few years
unless something is done to protect
them and allow them to increase In
numbers.
Some Counties Oppose
While almost all OF the counties are
In favor OF the closing Of the season,
there are some that are said to oppose
the move, Chippewa and Houghton
counties are mentioned as being In the
latter class but as TO the exact truth
OF the assertion we arc unable to say
The only way to determine the feel
ing OF the people OF the peninsula IS
through an open hearing at some cen
tral place where all may meet and ex-
press their views.
Such q hearing has been called and
It will probably be well attended by
people from every county OF the pc
ninsula. Iron county will certainly
send a large delegation to the meeting.
What Iron county wants is the clos
ing OF the season for number Of
years and while the season Is SO clos
ed It wants the legislature to enact
some law looking 70 the restriction of
killing
The buck law seems to meet with
much favor Under that law man
would be allowed to Kill one buck.
The real sportsman wants such law
but the game hogs do not want any
such interference
The Views OF Others
In this connection the views Of
chris Bennet OF the Ironwood Times
Ils interesting for Mr. Bennett IS a
sportsman who wants TO see our game
Of an kinds preserved. lie says
Strange as Il may seem, we are TO
have an objection to a closed season
on deer from one OF the upper penin-
sula counties. Houghton county has
never been enthusiastic over the prop
osition and now has come out square
liy with the announcement that the
representatives OF that county viii en-
ter an objection to The closed season
at the hearing before the Public Do
main Commission soon 10 be held.
The fellows from Houghton say that
they will object 20 the imposition OF
closed season on deer IN their coun-
~. unless there IS to be a closed sea
son In every county in the upper pc
ninsula. arguing that If a part OF the
counties are closed and some left op-
en-. 10 good will be done, but at the
same time they knock their argument
/ into cooked hat by saying that they
see no reason for a closed season IN
any of tbe counties. as there seems
10 be plenty OF deer in the upper pc.
ninsula.
We understand that there are not a.
many deer in Houghton as there are
IN some OF the other counties OF thf
upper peninsula, and we assume that
this must be true. for the residents OF
that county have evidently not as good
an opportunity 20 study the animals
"a have the people Of the other coun-
ties north OF the straits. II they have
Ihad such an opportunity they nave
not improved It. or they would be wei
laware OF the fact that the deer are
Ibeing rapidly thinned out In all parts
Of the upper peninsula. II is m
, doubtedly true that the deer were
: ouite plentiful in certain places In th'
upper peninsula last fall, but any per
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