Gunnison news-champion., 1921-12-23
JACK JENNINGS BRINGS PER-
SOSAL MESSAGE To CITIZENS

/ want 70 thank the Red Bloods and
al other good people Of my district IN
behalf Of the Game and Fish Depart
melt for sportsTnanlike conduct dis
PLAYED during tie open season Just
closed As 70 fish and game. and Lhy
shouldn't this b the case II you look
~ it from my point Of view, for
where Is there a country on Goa :
green footstool. Other than TN where
Ia ten minutes walk from the capital
of our county. you will be on the
greatest trUut-fishing ground in any
mans country. Then add five minutes
more walk. making 4 total Of Is
minutes, and you will b. IN the great
chicken and sage hen country Then
meauirr along leis1rely for an hour
and YOU are among deer and bear.
Just over the hill you viii see the
most beautiful sight the huEaa in
teliect can conccive-ruOuntain sheep
iu their native home and play ground
I speak Of what ! have seen while IN
the capacity Of deputy game warden,
and IN my general routine work OF
TIE mountain shel ?. my story can be
y erified by many cartlemen and hunt
ers who have seen the old ewes End
their lambs down IN Union park on
their native haunts, taking their lit
tie rumps. The little ones and their
E.1thcrs have no fears while at play
because their guardian angel IS tax
ing care Of their welfare Old Papa
-heep-the old ram is on the higher
pinnacles overlooking the beautiful
landscape where the mothers and their
lambs are taking their recreation.
But should anything occur during the
playtiIne, old Papa sheep speaks 70
MS little family in their language.
notifying them Of danger, and when
this signal is given, tbs then they
scamper TO their secluded hiding
place.
In close proximity to the home of
the mountain sheep, you will tind the
noble and grand elk in his native
state. What is more beautiful to
behold than these great cattle, as the
Indians called them? Just picture
the sccne-l00 to 200 in one herd.
grazing among small oaks and on
the green mountain sides You VIII
not permit them to be slaughtered as
they have been III cur country, and
know there l. red blood enough in our
good citizens to say to those who have
our game. We will not permit II"
Now, realizing these facts as they
exist, | ask why don't We protect our
game? We have the plant, and why
not multiply by saying TO the cold
bloodcd boy: "Iou cannot violate the
law" II YOU would do this, you
would soon see that Mr.. Cold Blood
would cease violating because he Will
IL
looking after their own interests in
respect 10 our game II is then that
happiness Of nature would be COM
pictD.
Now Just a few kind words for the
mot beneficial animal that graces the
earth. the beaver. All Indian tribes
in North America appear to have one
or more legends concerning the bea-
yer. Most Of these legends credit
him with being an industrious and
worthy fellow and the Cherokees are
said to trace their origin to a sacred
and practical beaver. Many Of the
tribes had a legend which claimed that
long, long ago the great waters surg I
sd around a shoreless world. These
waters were peopled with beaver Of
a gigantic size. These, with the
Great Spirit, divided and brought up
quantities of mud and shaped the 4
the hills and dales. Z
Coming down to modern times, the .
animal as we now know him, appears .
20 have been distributed over almost .
all of Asia, Europe and North Ameri .
"a. Beaver lured the hunter and the
.rapper over all American wilds.
Their skins were one of the earliest
4 .F "a nt
.lers of North America. and for 200 .
;ears they were one of the important .
Exports and for long time they were
also the chief commodity of trade on
he frontier : beaver skin was not
;kins were measured in value. but al
o the standard of value by which
sugar, cattle, hatchets and clothing
rappers and first settlers forecast
actions of the beaver. If beavers be-
,in early. II the beaver laid up q
leeply with mud and raised the water
evel in the pond, the winter was. of
.ouTse, to be a long and severe one.
Early in the fur industry, companies
we're founded, the, Hudson Bay Com
,any becoming the most influential
md best known. It's charter was
granted by Charles the Second of
England on May 2, 1869. This COM
,any developed into one of the great
st commercial enterprises that Amer
ca has ever known The skins Of the
,eaver furnished more than half the
revenue. The American
FUR company and the Northwestern
FUR company were two large fur
enterprises whose trappers
.anged afar and who left their mark
n the history and development Of
he Northwest. The colossal Astor