The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-05-03

| improvements and in the purchase
of game birds, game animals and
| their propagatiOns and less money
| spent in salaries and travelling ex-
penses is the aim of the governor
and in that l fully concur" he con-
| tinued.
1.-The biennial report of the Fish
and Game department for the years
1921 and 1922 show $330,91S.25
was expended. Of this amount $144,-
| 67391 was expended for salaries in
field supervision and approximately
$4,000 was spent for expenses of
the field force. The, records of the
| Game Department indicate that in
the years 1921 and 1922, of the
revenue received during those years
| $4,000 was expended in improve
| ments, approximately $4,000 in adj
diticnal equipment and $25, 900 for
supplies which latter items include
the purchase of game birds. fish
eggs and other supplies. We be-
lieve that more economic admins
tration of the affairs of this depart
ment will permit us to expend or
put into permanent improvements
between $4,000 and $4,000 during
the coming biennium with similar
increases in the amount for birds,
fish and other game.
During the biennium just ended
an average of As field men were en-
ployed These of course did not in
clude hatchery superintendent and
assistant superintendent and those
Immediately connected with the op-
Grafton of the four fish hatcheries.
Carrying out the program of econ
Omy in salaries and expense with
more attention to permanent i'm
prOvements and game propagation
we propose to reduce the number
of field men to not more than thirty
three, including the eight assistant
chief deputy game wardens. This
reduction on a basis of the revenue
derived from the sale of licenses and
other sources during the last bien-
mum will mean a saving of approx
imately $4,000 in salaries for the
biennium. The item of travelling
expenses for local deputies is also
quite factor On the basis of the
field men employed during 1921 and
1922 this would amount to $500 per
annum per man. A reduction of the
j
duction in this expense and we es-
count should be approximately $751;
900 for the biennium. This item
alone being sufficient to build one
additional hatchery.
when the Republican admins
tration took over the Game Depart
ment in 1913 matters generally were
found in rather a deplorable condi- |
ton, our hatcheries, for instance,
were in bad state of repair. The
Occur d'Alene hatchery had been
closed or its operation discontinued
There had been, or was, very little
made to actively patrol the
state, in consequence of which vio-
lations of the fish and game laws
were common and particularly little
respect was had for that feature of
the fish and game law requiring that
every hunter and fisherman must Sc
cure license. 1t was apparent
therefore that a strenuous effort
must be made to provide additional
revenue, all of which was accom-
)lished, as can be readily shown, by ,
the number of field men
1t that time and also demanding in
creased efficiency.
1T was very evident also, from
borough investigation that on ac-
count of the very few fish planted I
~ the former administration and I
he manner in which the same were
,lanted, that our streams in many
instances had become almost entire
y depleted. The demand for more
lsh seemed to be the crying need
he revenue of the department dur
ng 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1922 was
expended largely in supervision, .
Which practically doubled the reve- h