Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-07-10
PLENTY OF GOOD WATER AT
RIGHT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ED THAT REARING PONDS WILL
BE BUILT-PARTS OF TWO
STREAMS CLOSED TO FISHING.

Jas. Fitch and E. M. Boyes returned
from Somers last evening where they
attended meeting of the state fish
and game commission. They bring back
the~news that the program of the Lib
by Rod and Gun Club was approved
by the commission, and that the hatch
cry now located on Cedar Creek will
be moved to the Big Spring. The site
tor the hatchery and rearing ponds
has been donated by the j. Neils Lum-
Der Company and is located on Libby
creek about seven miles south of Lib
by. The site has been declared
one of the best in the state, plenty of
good spring water and a good site
tor buildings and ponds The work of
moving the hatchery will take place
this fall just as soon as the one now
in operation on Cedar creek is closed.
An engineer will be on the ground
within the next few days running lines
to get the proper description SO that
easement can be secured on the
ground, after which Mr.. Marlowe,
chairman of the commission, and DIR.
Treece will come over and lay out the
plans for the construction of the build
ings and the ponds
This is certainly good news to the
sportsmen of Lincoln county for the
erection of ponds to hold the fish until
they are four or five inches long be-
fore hberating them, means better
fishing for everyone.
John Frolicher, educational secre-
tary of the Fish and Game Commits
sioner, will be in Libby Thursday eve
ming, July II, at which time there
will be a meeting of the Libby Rod
and Gun Club, to be held in the
Woman's Club building. M X. Kedzie,
secretary OF the local organization, re-
quests that every sportsman be in at
tendance at this meeting. One of the
subjects to be discussed is the sheep
question AT the present time there
are twelve bands OF Washington sheep
grazing in Lincoln and the western
portion of Flathead counties They are
being grazed on the open range, which
is the natural winter feeding ground
for our game. If sheep are permitted
to Craze on this ground in the summer
IL means that there viii be no feed fot
the elk and deer in the winter. The
.A-uation is serious and the sportsmen
of Lincoln and Flathead counties will
no doubt make a protest to the For
estry department 1t is understood the
same situation prevailed near Missoula,
that the sportsmen there protested to
the forestry and that some of the
sheep were moved out.
The matter of protection for the
bear was also discussed at the meet
ing Of the commission and this also
be one Of the subjects to be taken up
next Thursday.
The commission granted the petit
ton of the Libby Rod and Gun Club
and an order was issued for the clos
ing of the following streams. West
Fisher and all its tributaries not in
Guiding the lakes at the head of
streams that empty into the West
Fisher; the Silver Butte Fisher, from
the junction with the East Fisher to
its source was also ordered closed.
The request for the closing of these
streams was made for the reason that
the water in these streams is extremely
low and also for the reason that many
of the fish were killed last winter
when the early freeze caught many Of
them in the head waters of these
streams smotherng thousands of them