I he 0ld Cfrying j^an

Submitted by CDrs. Sert CDendenhall
JColtcr 'Dam, CDontana

You may talk of your broilers, both single and double,
Your roasters and toasters; they're all lots of trouble.
But when out in the hills, just find if you can,
Any kind of a dish like the old frying pan.

Over the campfire you don't need a stove;
Out in the hills, the place we all love;
Such hot cakes they never were tasted by man.
With -many the thanks to the old frying pan.

When the trout are all fried to a rich golden brown,
I know old epicures ivould look with a frown
At the meal set before me — dispute it ivho can —
With naught for a plate but the old frying pan.

With the venison cooked, the potatoes all fried.
Bannocks like bed-quilts, unth coffee besides,
You coidd eat till you busted, die satisfied, man.
Was dish e'er invented like the old frying pan?

Many a miner, in the good days of old,
'Way back in the foothills a-searching for gold.
Deep in some creek-bed, for the rich yelloiv sand
Has panned out a grub-stake ivith the old frying pan.

There's been cattle rustlers, ivhen in a great hurry
Used no other iron, but why should they worry?
For many and many and many the brand
That has been blotched out ivith an old frying pan.

So your praises I'll shout, both far, ivide and high.
That you're the best dish, till the day that I die.
Why, there's many a woman "cleaned up" on her man
With no other club but the old frying pan.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

The Official Publication of The State Fish and Game Commission

VOL. II.

HELENA, MONTANA, MARCH, 1930.

NO. 10.

\^Tor J^ i.

sh and Lr

An Editorial

ame

By Floyd L. Smith

WHEN commercial captains, industrial leaders and
outstanding representatives of every walk of lite
of Montana recently gathered at an eventful two-
day session at the state capitol at Helena, organized the
Montana Development Congress and perfected fundamental
plans for placing Montana's resources before the world,
they embarked upon a mission of merit such as has seldom
been undertaken in the Treasure State. Significant asso-
ciation of men who sacrificed time and money to partici-
pate in this great gathering, with outstanding industries of
the state, causes the congress and its proposed activities to
occupy a position of enviable esteem. The plan, emanating
from discussion at the conference, is simply that of pre-
senting Montana in a proper light before eastern investors,
farmers, operators of factories, tourists and eventual set-
tlers. Much of this campaign will be devoted to advertising
in publications reaching prospective residents.

While men of might and power are discussing meritori-
ous matters involving millions, while they are outlining
campaigns of magnitude as that proposed by the Montana
Development Congress, they are giving their best that Mon-
tana may move forward. Yet while these intense efforts
are in their embryonic stage, features of vital importance
may be inadvertently overlooked. Hence, this editorial sug-
gestion is offered in constructive, wholesome manner on be-
half of upright Montana sportsmen, whose dollars and en-
deavors are making possible the vast program of wild life
conservation in which the State Fish and Game Commission
is now engaged.

Springtime is officially here. Eastern tourists are turn-
ing their eyes toward Montana's playgrounds. Many of
these tourists are looking over the lay of the land In search
of homes. They are thrilled by Montana's magnificent dis-
tances, her gigantic mining industry, her strides in agri-
culture, stock and shop industries, her snowclad peaks, bab-
bling brooks and turbulent rivers. All of these things en-
ter into the picture imprinted on the mind of the visitor
to whom Montana extends her hospitable arms.

Yet when all is said and done, when the debating and
argument is over, when the mid-west farmer who is tem-
porarily a tourist pitches camp along a crystal Montana
stream, ambles out before the evening meal and returns
with a mess of such trout as he has never befoi-e seen, he
unwittingly murmurs: "This state is good enough for me."
He has been made a convert without perusal
of eastern advertising, without the necessity of
reaching him through beautified literature and
without personal contact. Funds expended by
Montana sportsmen which make possible stock-
ing and restocking that stream that residents
as well as visitors may enjoy God's heritage,
have made another friend.

Hence in consideration of these vital facts,
the Montana Development Congress may well
cooperate in conserving the fish and fowl, feath-
ered friends and big game and include them as
the magnet which first attracts the visitor, who
later decides to make Montana his permanent
home.

Montana is credited with attracting the third largest
tourist expenditure in the United States and Canada. The
Montana Automobile Association declares that the average
year sees $300,000,000 spent by some 6,000,000 tourists to
enrich Montana and the northwest. Wealth follows in the
wake of this business. Even the most humble traveler who
totes his bulky heap on the running boards, his coffee pot
and skillet under the front seat, must shop for supplies.
Yet, remove the fish from Montana's streams, the feathered
foxes from hills and forests, the elk, deer, and the pro-
tected bison, mountain sheep, goats — and what becomes of
the tourist business?

When the Verendryes, French fur traders from Canada,
the first white men to set toot on what is now Montana,
came within sight of the Big Horn mountains in southeast-
ern Montana in 1743, they came in search of furs. They
lived on fish and game. When Captains Lewis and Clark,
intrepid explorers, came to make a reconnaisance of the
northwest, they crossed the state from east to west in
1S04-5. They, too, enjoyed the paradise of wild life. Gold
miners came in the '60's, the wagon trains and prairie
schooners followed and then began inroads on wild life,
which are definitely traceable to the necessity for such
conservation and restocking made possible by law enforce-
ment in which loyal sportsmen have entered in whole-
hearted manner.

Montana's streams must be kept stocked with fish if
state prestige as a tourist goal is to be maintained. Fif-
teen hatcheries operated by the State Fish and Game Com-
mission are producing some 40,000,000 trout and grayling
annually to keep abreast of the drain. The new state game
farm will in like manner do its share toward restocking
glen and dale, field and forest. Montana has an area of
146,997 square miles or approximately 94,078,000 acres.
These acres are awaiting conscientious settlers. Yet the
farm located within ideal distance of field, forest or stream,
where fish and game abound, is that which is most desired.
During 1929 Montana's fishing and hunting licenses
mounted to new records, from the standpoint of both resi-
dent and tourist. Every Montana angler pays $2 into the
fish and game fund to make bigger and better fishing and
each year sees more fishermen, more hunters and a greater
drain upon the heritage of boys who are pals of Montana
days. What's the answer? Efforts of Montana's State Fish
and Game Commission, financed by the meager
sum paid for resident hunting and fishing li-
censes— only $2 for 12 months of sport — have
given Montana the largest warm-water pond
culture station in the world at Fort Keogh,
blazed the trail by establishing the first and
largest biological survey station for the study
of fish and animal food and diseases on tne
shores of Flathead Lake in cooperation with
the state university, planted duck food through-
out the state, set aside game sanctuaries, and
established rearing ponds. These strides are
being made to make Montana more interesting
to the men and women who seek a home in the
Land of Shining Mountains.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

T^enieg Moet^ea Moeetaie Sheep

By DEPUTY GAME WARDEX WILLIAM J. I>OI!KINGTON

PRIOR to the creation of Glacier
National Park in Montana, that'
portion east of the Continental
Divide and then known as the ceded
strip, was probably the greatest hunt-
ing area in Montana. This area was
a great mountain sheep and grizzly bear
country and yearly sportsmen from New
York and London availed themselves o£
these conditions and, guided by Jack
Munroe, who still lives in Montana, al-
ways got their big horn and grizzly.
Today under Park supervision this same
area still abounds with wild life.

The mountain sheep, wildest and shy-
est of them all, when this country be-
came a park, has now through contact
with man and having been hay fed at
certain points during severe winters,
become so tame that pictures of them
are secured, although In remote parts
of this park, where few ever travel,
mountain sheep are apparently as shy
and wild as ever.

The first feeding of these sheep was
not really from a point of necessity,
but rather to tame by feeding and thus
try to hold them close to a highway,
where tourists could view them. This
certainly has been accomplished, as any
one who has visited this country can
testify.

During a fall visit to the park by
Ernest Thompson Seton, well known
author and naturalist, I was detailed
to accompany Mr. Seton and remained
with him tor eight days. This was after
the park season, and we camped close
to the summit of the Continental Divide
to be as close as possible to the moun-
tain goat, for Mr. Seton was at this
time making a study of the goat.

During our stay many wild life
stories were told. It was then that
Mr. Seton spoke about the increase of
the mountain sheep and with the in-
crease would come the necessity of
feeding them. I spoke of the desire
of the hotel company of having them
fed, for the purpose of seeing if by
contact and feed we could not hold
them in the same area during the
tourist season.

Mr. Seton agreed that as soon as
he got back to Washington, D. C, he
would see if money could be procured
tor the purchase of hay. This he was
able to do, and the hotel company left
with us 200 pounds of salt. This we
placed close to the highway, which in
time became a salt lick and was much
used. The hay was brought in and
stored. Later the road was blocked
with snow and the sheep began to
come down.

Hay was at first put out probably
half a mile from the cabin and as
sheep came to it it was put closer and
closer until within the first two months
they were practically eating out of our
hands.

Ranger F. M. O'Brien was stationed
at this camp during this time and
periodically I would visit him through
the winter and was more than sur-

prised at the gentleness of these sheep
in so short a time.

It was during one of our many trips
to visit this station that Frank O'Brien
told me he had a great surprise for
me and would show me the following
morning. He told me what he would do
and I was rather doubtful.

Early next morning and before we
had breakfast we went outside the cabin
and about seventy-five mountain sheep
were scattered over the mountainside.

Frank let out a series of shrill whis-
tles. Instantly every sheep raised its
head. Frank continued to whistle a
short time, then one ram started slowly
down towards the cabin and in a few
minutes all were in a mad run. Frank
broke out a bale of hay and then feed
was on. Our experiment has proved
successful as these sheep lambed close
by and brought their lambs down with
them, which in turn became more gen-
tle. The accompanying pictures on the
opposite page from my collection show
sheep in different stages of feeding.

The Wild Horse

NANCY K. MARQUES
Hot Spring's, Montana

FAMILIAR MILEAGE

Friend (to motorist): "What! Three
thousand miles in her this spring?
Some tour!"

Motorist: "No tour at all. Just back
and forth to the grocer's for things my
wife forgot."

In the days almost forgotten.

In a time when guns were law,
Roamed a wild horse o'er the moun-
tains.

Brave, defiant, lord of all.
Rope o'er hand had never touched him.

His was freedom wild and bold,
He knew where the grass grew tallest,

Knew each lick and water hole.
Then one day his wild eye flashing

Caught a dust cloud in the air.
These he'd learned were danger signals,

Something coming near his lair.
Soon he found himself surrounded,

While his head he proudly tossed,
Then he fought a vicious battle,

'Twas a battle that he lost.
He had lost, and man had conquered.

Gone his freedom with the stars.
And he leaned against corral poles,

As a prisoner 'gainst the bars.
Now he felt the branding iron.

Terror through his body ran.
They broke his heart and spirit.

Made him do the will of man.
Gone his glory as a wild horse.

Gone his freedom in the hill.
But the Sadness of his passing

Is a memory with us still.

Low Water at Nine Pipe Reseevoir

WISDOM of Montana's State Fish
and Game Department in clos-
ing streams to fishing on No-
vember 1 because of extreme low water
and the torrid summer and fall, has
been justified by examination of waters
where landlocked game fish have been
saved. Here's a picture of Nine Pipe
Reservoir, the duck hunter's paradise

during ordinary seasons and the play
resort for anglers and their families in
search of suntish, bass, perch and
trout. The reservoir is shown at its
low water stage. The picture is sub-
mitted by Deputy Warden Jack Goldsby,
who asserts that millions of fish re-
maining will be saved during the win-
ter with proper attention.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

1 — Tlie liardy old rams were among the last to be tamed.

2 — Old Man Sheep became gentle during the winter because of having been fed. They are shown in the picture peering
into tlie camera, unafraid and waiting for another bale of hay.

3 — Kams and ewes in this picture are a little doubtful about coming in for their meal.

4 — This old fellow has his trunk and grip packed and is on tlie way.

5 — While these sheep were being fed they made friends with the camp dog, dissipating the old theory tliat a mountain
sheep never will permit itself to accept civilization.

G^This old ram made himself perfectly at home and was often seen on the highways.

7 — Hay was first distril»uted on this rocky promontory and the slieep were at first wary about apprnacliing it.

8 — These mountain sheep finally became so tame that lliey climbed the roof of tlie cabin, woke the ranger, F. M. O'Brien,
and politely asked for their morning hay.

9 — These fellows were torn between fear and confidence.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

Wily Phe^saet Passes the Beek

By JOE B. HALM of Missoula

IT MAY have been the uuusual be-
havior of some blackbirds in the
cattails which caused me to circle
a small pond near Nine Pipes Bird
Refuge last summer.

P-r-r-r. A Chinese pheasant hen rose
out of the tall weeds with a roar like
a miniature airplane, zigzagged across
the stubble and disappeared over a rise
of ground in an adjacent field. I al-
ways experience a peculiar thrill, — a
sort of momentary paralysis — in the
getaway of these big beautiful birds.
I stepped cautiously forward. Just as
I had expected, there was a nest, but
instead of the usual clutch of pheasant
eggs, I found four pheasant and an
equal number of duck eggs. The nest
was crude, such as either a duck or
pheasant might claim prior to the in-
cubation period. I calipered the eggs.
The smaller were pheasant, the larger
ones, considering their size and the
location of the nest, were undoubtedly
of a pintail duck.

I recalled that nest parasitism is
practiced by several groups of birds.
The cowbird and cuckoo, I knew, were
parasitic and often did their sitting by
proxy, but I was not so sure that either
the pheasant or duck had such inclina-
tions. The evidence thus far was wholly
circumstantial.

Nevertheless, here was a situation
worthy of investigation. After noting

carefully all the details, I was still
undecided as to which was the rightful
owner. My conclusion was that pos-
sibly a pheasant had inadvertently ac-
cepted an abandoned duck's nest.

This theory was exploded upon my
return that afternoon. As I cautiously
approached, a pintail hen slipped noise-
lessly out of the nest. A count of the
eggs showed the score now to be five
to four in favor of the duck. The fact
that the nest was not down-lined con-
vinced me that the duck at least had
not yet begun to incubate the eggs.

After photographing the nest, I vis-
ited several others of my acquaintance
in the neighborhood.

While blundering more or less aim-
lessly through the stubble, I startled a
setting mallard hen. While examining
this well-lined work of art, I marveled
at the unusual number of eggs.

Then I had my second surprise that
day. I counted thirteen duck and three
pheasant eggs. There was no mistak-
ing the ownership of this nest. It was
neatly lined with duck breast down, the
eggs were warm and polished, indicat-
ing that incubation was well advanced.
The pheasant eggs were a light green,
slightly darker in color than the mal-
lard's and noticeably smaller. I promptly
began a careful and systematic search
of the immediate neighborhood, but
found no more parasitized nests.

We watched events in these two nests
which were not more than a quarter
of a mile apart. As incubation pro-
gressed in Mrs. Mallard's household,
she gradually ejected all but one of
the pheasant eggs and six of her own.
Had I not caught her in the act, I
would have thought some prowler was
robbing her. Standing in the nest, tail
pointed skyward, she carefully worked
round and round, turning the eggs over
and over with her bill.

Finally, after much listening and de-
liberation, she selected the undesirable
one and nosed it gently out and with
her mandibles rolled it into the stubble
out of sight. It took several days to
weed out the eight undesirable eggs.
I examined all that I could find and
each proved to be infertile.

Nature has endowed this bird with a
keen instinct for correctly distinguish-
ing the live from the dead eggs. I do
not believe she would have removed the
pheasant eggs had they shown signs
of life.

A few days later I found the nest
empty. All the eggs had hatched, in-
cluding the pheasants. I saw the little
duck family all well and happy in the
cattails nearby. If the pheasant who
duped the duck into relieving her of
family responsibility hoped to reap re-
sults, it was misplaced confidence for
while Mrs. Mallard did act as foster

— l^hotos by Joe B. Halm, Missoula.
At the left — The pheasant eggs numbered seven which, with the ten pintail eggs, made a total of 17 in the duck's nest.
Center- — The pintail hen on her nest near Nine Pipe Reservoir.
At the right — The mallard nest which contained thirteen duck eggs and three pheasant eggs.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

mother to the extent of incubating the
eggs, she certainly did not tarry long
after the last little arrival left the
shell. Her own downy nestlings were
already clamoring to go see the world
so after some coaxing she probably left
her pink little fosterling in disgust with
the admonition to follow as soon as it
could.

The pintail eggs increased in num-
ber daily. While watching Mrs. Pin-
tail from a convenient blind one day,
a pheasant hen suddenly appeared in
the grass just beyond her. Mrs. Pheas-
ant was stepping cautiously, extending
her neck, keenly alert as if fearing
an ambush. She walked directly to the
nest.

When scarcely two feet from it she
became suddenly aware of Mrs. Pin-
tail's presence, then as if caught in an
act of mischief, she raised her head
and walked hurriedly away, looking
neither to right nor left.

Whether this was a ruse on her part
to disclaim ownership of the nest or
simply timidity, I can not say. The
pheasant ordinarily is anything but
timid. Perhaps halt an hour later, Mrs.
Pintail left, after first covering the
nest lightly with straw. She walked to
the little pond and tidied up a bit, after
which she flew away. I watched for the
pheasant's return, but was disappointed.
Neither she nor the duck returned that
day.

I returned a few days later to find
the nest covered with soft downy duck
feathers. The Chinese pheasant eggs
now numbered seven, which, with the
ten duck eggs, made a total of seven-
teen.

Anxiously I crept into my blind and
waited. Soon Mrs. Pintail returned
from her favorite pond and after satis-
fying herself that the coast was clear,
settled upon the nest. She never left
it thereafter except for short periods.

This bird showed little of the intel-
ligent concern for her own eggs with
which I would have credited her. Some
birds submit to being duped even
though the size and color of the eggs
differ. All the eggs evidently proved
fertile for she did not eject any, and
one day after an absence of two days
I was Hearing the little pond when I
saw Mother Pintail, closely followed by
her brood of ten babies, making for
the tall reeds on the far side. I was
too late, every egg had hatched.

I searched about for some clue as to
the fate of the seven little pheasants
but again the mute empty shells told
no story other than that they had
hatched.

I am unable to state whether either
of these ducks was aware of the im-
postures practiced by the feathered
arch-parasite, the Chinese pheasant, or
whether through innate simplicity or in-
advertent coincidence, both duck and
pheasant just happened to use the same
nest, and the pheasants later peaceably
relinquished them to the ducks. This
seems probable, especially since I know
that one pheasant at least saw the duck
on the nest and shrewdly passed her
by without any protest.

Hunter Bags Lion Cubs In Den

CE. BEEBE of Columbia Falls re-
ceived special commendation for
the killing of a female mountain
lion and the capturing of her five kit-
tens alive after a hazardous entrance
into a den on the Wolf Creek preserve
in the report of the state livestock,
fish and game and biological survey on
predatory animals, received by Robert
H. Hill, State Fish and Game Warden.

Beebe was called into the district
when the ranger reported an unusual
slaughter by lions among elk and deer.
The second day out he picked up the
trail of the old female lion and put his
dogs, a cross of foxhound and blood-
hound, on her track. In less than three
hours he had her treed and killed.

After he killed the lion he discovered
she was nursing young. He skinned
the animal and took her back trail
across Wolf Creek to Elk Mountain and
followed it to her den. The den was
so small at the entrance that he was
unable to crawl in with his heavy
clothes and besides he needed a gunny
sack and some snares. He returned to
the Fairview Ranger Station, about 22
miles, got his supplies and returned
to the den.

Removing his heavy clothes, he
crawled back about 40 feet through the

crevice in the solid wall of the cliff,
lit his candle and started to catch the
lion kittens with a wire snare. The
den was about two feet wide, five feet
long and five feet high. After getting
the little cats in the sack he backed
out, dragging them after him. The kit-
tens weighed six to eight pounds each
and were carried about two miles until
Beebe reached a spot where he chopped
down a lodge pole tree with his hand ax
and made a sleigh. With 45 pounds
on his back and pulling the sleigh with
the five kittens and the hide of the
mother lion, it was all he could do to
make the top of the divide, where he
stopped for the night, feeding the kit-
tens on heated canned milk.

The next morning he hauled the load
to Trego, 20 miles, and then took the
train for Columbia Falls, from where
he shipped the young lions to R. E.
Bateman, predatory animal inspector,
at Billings. The lions will be sold to
museums.

Beebe often spends weeks at a time
away from civilization with his snow-
shoes and pack outfit. During the time
he is on his trips he camps at night in
a silk tepee if no other shelter is avail-
able. He gets supplies from caches of
forest rangers, to which he is entitled.

They're Under Water

MANY photographers have tried and
tried and tried to take pictures
of fish and other images under
water. Here's a catch of beauties, tied
together with a string, floating in the
waters of Two Medicine Lake, where
the water is clear as crystal. If ama-
teur photographers doubt the under-
water problem, it might be well to be-
gin looking forward to a series of tests
on next summer's vacation in the hills.

The Same Old Story

Father: Was Jack intoxicated when
he came home last night?

Daughter: I didn't notice, but he
asked for a mirror so he could see who
he was.

AFTER listening in camp and work-
ing on his own imagination, a
Montana hunter figured out that
there are just exactly a dozen different
alibis for the Hungarian partridge
hunter who didn't get any birds. Here
they are:

"The foliage was so thick that every
time a bird flushed it was hidden be-

fore you could get your gun up to your
shoulder."

"The birds were wild as hawks. They
got up so far ahead that you'd need a
rifle to bring them down."

"The woods were so dry that every
time you moved your feet the leaves
crunched and warned the birds of your
approach."

"The woods were so wet that the
birds sat tight and wouldn't get up
until you kicked them under the chin."

"The dog couldn't work in the dry
woods, account of there being no damp-
ness to hold the scent."

"The birds were badly scattered. It's
foolish to open the season before the
first break of cold weather bunches the
birds."

"My shells were no good. I'll never
use a scatter load again."

"I made the mistake of trying to
shoot partridge with a duck load. After
this I'll use scatter shells."

"There were too many hunters in the
woods. They made the birds wild."

"There weren't enough hunters to
keep the birds moving. They'd drop
down in the thickets and sit tight,
whereas if there'd been more hunters
rambling around the birds would have
been flushed again."

"Our dog was no good."

"There aren't any partridge. It was
a mistake to open the season."

So there you are. Take your choice.
Every alibi is good.

Hubby: "I can't raise $100 — that's
all there is to it. I received a notice
this morning from my bank about be-
ing overdrawn."

Wifey: "Well, can't you try some
other bank? They can't all be over-
drawn."

MONTANA WILD LIFE

MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION

COMMISSIONERS.
Thomas N. Marlowe, Missoula, Chairman.
G. T. Boyd, Great Falls.
Joseph L. Kelly, Anaconda.
W. K. Moore, Billings.
E. A. Wilson, Livingston.

ROBERT H. HILL, Helena

State Fish and Game Warden

Secretary.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

The Official Publication of the State

Fish and Game Department.

Published Monthly at Helena, Montana.

FLOYD L. SMITH, Editor.

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VOLUME n.

MARCH, 1930.

NUMBER 10.

GAME MUST EAT TO LIVE

THIS is the time of year, with the approach of spring-
time, when a tremendous amount of good can be done
by everyone who goes afield in helping game birds to
solve their greatest problem: that of securing proper food
during the months when the ground is covered with snow.
Sportsmen, boy and girl scouts, school children, rural mail
carriers, in fact anybody who goes into the fields and
woodlands should do their part in providing additional food
in the shape of fine grain or scratch feed for the game
birds. Likely feeding places occur in any sheltered spot.
Under the low limbs of evergreen trees there is always
a thin place in the snow that is a favorite refuge and feed-
ing ground for native birds.

It is folly to expect the State Fish and Game Commis-
sion to take care of all of this winter feeding and the
sportsmen's organizations can only care for limited areas.
Boys in every locality should be interested in winter feed-
ing. Such work on their part will not only help save the
game the state has taken such pains and expense to propa-
gate, but it will help the boys grow into better citizens.
The boy who has spent a winter helping feed game and
save it from starvation is not likely to grow up into a game
hog or a law-breaker.

Be careful of your axe; also be careful with it. Don't swing
it until you are sure it will not catch on a branch overhead
or behind you. Keep your feet well back when you are chopping.

VIOLATOR FINED $2,000

PAUL JONKERS of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according
to a dispatch from Hedfield, South Dakota, liked pheas-
ants so well that he just could not wait a few days
until the season opened, and when caught as he was about
to leave the state in a high powered auto he had one hun-
dred and fifty pheasants, practically all of them canned in
half-gallon and gallon jars. The dispatch states that this
man and his wife were visiting relatives who asked them
to refrain from hunting until the season opened, and that
the birds were to be used in throwing a big banquet for a
number of wealthy patrons of a summer resort operated
by .Jonkers near Lake Geneva. Judge Fisher in passing the
maximum fine of $2,000, one of the largest ever assessed,
severely reprimanded Jonkers and said that it was on ac-
count of his attitude, and the attitude of men like him,
that the law was in disrepute.

MONTANA GRAVLING IN CALIFORNIA

MONTANA has for decades been looked upon by visit-
ing anglers as the home of the grayling. Its fame
has traveled far. During the recent winter many
Montanans have visited the aquariums in California where
Montana game fish are displayed. The remarks of Alvin
Scale, superintendent of the Steinhart aquarium at San
Francisco, are interesting. He says:

"Izaak Walton called the grayling 'the Flower of Fishes.'
It is just that. The only place in the Union where the
grayling is propagated is at Anaconda, Montana, where
millions of eggs are taken each year. There fish spawn
in May and June. The eggs are placed in hatching jars,
such as are used for hatching whitefish eggs. They have,
however, been hatched with good success in wire baskets
of small mesh.

"Dr. Treece, superintendent of hatcheries for Montana,
writes: 'Another difficulty about the propagation of the
grayling is the fact that we have never found any form
of food for the little fellows, and as a result he must be
taken out and planted before the little food sac is absorbed.'
It was to remedy this condition that research regarding
food for young grayling was inaugurated at the Steinhart
aquarium, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

"On May 19, 1924, we received at the Steinhart aquarium
about 4,000 grayling eggs in eyed condition. They were
placed in the hatchery and by May 30 they were all hatched.
As soon as the food sac was absorbed we began feeding
them, trying each of the following: boiled egg squeezed
through a cloth, powdered shrimp, meat juice, sour milk
curd, fresh fish ground to powder, liver and beef heart.
None of these could be regarded as a success and the death
rate mounted rapidly. Within four months every one of
these young grayling were lost.

"On June 24, 1929, the Montana Department of Fish and
Game sent the aquarium about 30,000 grayling eggs, all of
which hatched in fine condition. We at once got in touch
with W. H. Shebley and offered to the Division of Fish
and Game about 25,000 of these young grayling for planting
in such places in California as he might choose. We sug-
gested that Mirror Lake in the Yosemite Valley as closely
approximating the conditions of Georgetown Lake, in Mon-
tana, where the eggs were secured. The young grayling
were accordingly taken to Mirror Lake by the representa-
tives of the division's fish cultural bureau and planted on
July 3, 1929. About one week later a second lot of perhaps
5,000 young were sent to the Mt. Shasta hatchery for plant-
ing in northern California. The remaining fish were re-
tained at the Steinhart aquarium for experiments in feeding
with live food, large quantities of Daphna, Infusoria and
small brine shrimp being used for this purpose, but with-
out success. The problem of feeding young grayling is still
one awaiting solution." They thrive in Montana's crystal
waters.

It pays to go straight — look what happened to the corkscrew.

THIS MONTH'S COVER

FRIENDS of MONTANA WILD LIFE have been kindly
in their comment on the cover designs selected tor the
monthly publications. The picture utilized on the
cover of the March edition was made possible through
activities of P. G. Gutensohn, secretary of the Whitefish
Rod and Gun Club. The photograph of the mountain sheep
was taken at Glacier National Park feeding grounds, while
the rams were waiting for their winter rations.

Don't fail to take a good compass with a lock needle on
your fishing trip, and' become familiar with it before you start.
Don't wait until you are lost to do this.

If thirsty and without water, put a small stone or a button
under your tongue. It will keep your mouth moist.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

GAME DEl'AirOIKJiT FOR MISSISSIPPI

MISSISSIPPI is the only state in tlie Union without a
state department for the administration of its fish
and game laws. The state has a code of laws regu-
lating the taking of game and providing open and closed
seasons, bag limits, etc., but has no state agency for the
administration or enforcement of its laws, the enforcement
being left to county commissioners and sheriffs. It has
been repeatedly demonstrated in other states that a state
department responsible for the administration of the wild
life of the state is essential to efficient supervision and
practical enforcement of laws. Efforts have been made in
previous legislatures to secure such a department but with-
out success.

The legislature of the state, which is now in session,
is considering an excellent measure similar to that of Mon-
tana. It provides for the creation of a commission of
three members, each to be appointed for two, four and six
years, respectively, so that the entire commission will not
go out of office at one time. The commission is authorized
to appoint an executive officer who shall have direct charge
of the administration of the department under the authority
of the commission. Members of the commission receive no
salary.

Pursuant to the most modern and approved ideas of ad-
ministration the commission is given authority to make
regulations opening and closing seasons as emergency con-
ditions might require after investigation and public hear-
ing. Regulations established by the commission are to have
the effect of law.

A hunting and fishing license system is established, the
income from which is to be safeguarded to be used for no
other purpose except the administration of the fish and
game laws and the department has authority to use the
funds so accruing for establishment of sanctuaries, fish
hatcheries and game farms.

A human life is worth more than all the game in America —
see clearly before shooting.

SPRING FIRES DESTROY BIRDS

EVERY spring multitudes of small birds and animals of
Montana are either killed or driven from their chosen
habitats by the numerous fires intentionally set to
burn over farm, waste or wood lands. Many forms of wild
life become especially attached to a given territory, at least
for the period of the spring and summer seasons, and when
the cover is burned away both the home and the source of
food supply may have been destroyed.

Farmers of the prairie sections of the country have long
held to the custom of burning marshy pasture and meadow
lands in the spring and probably always will, but if they
would do their burning early, immediately after the snow
goes off, a minimum of damage would be done. When the
burning is delayed until late in April or early May many
nests of prairie chickens, wild ducks and quail as well as
ground-nesting non-game birds are destroyed.

Even city park authorities seem to take little account
of nesting sites for birds as it is a common practice to
burn the winter's accumulation of dead leaves, grass and
other combustible material in the spring, destroying all
nesting sites of birds which nest on the ground or in low
shrubbery.

Many are called, but few are chosen; a.sk the man who toots
a duck call all day long.

CALIFORNIA GAME REFUGES

THE resident hunting license fee in California was raised
by the legislature of 1927 with the provision that one-
third of the money so raised was to be used for the
purchase of game refuges. Since that time an exhaustive
survey has been made and tentative locations selected for
refuges suitable for the various kinds of game of the state.
The first refuge to be established from this fund has
been selected and consists of 3,000 acres in Merced county
and embraces an ideal location for harboring waterfowl.
Development is required to supply water for the area as it
is needed to promote the growth of aquatic plants suitable
tor waterfowl food. The locality has been used as a winter
resort for ducks and quail from time immemorial. Estab-
lishment of a number of other refuges, tentative locations
for which have been selected, will follow.

SPORTSMAN A CONSERVATIONIST

SO MUCH is said derogatory of the sportsman that when
a voice is lifted in his defense it is worth repeating.
The following editorial in the January 13, 1930, issue
of the Columbus, Ohio, Evening Dispatch should hearten
all sportsmen who are battling for better and saner laws,
more intelligent game management, more constructive meth-
ods of game restoration:

"Encouraging reports have come from the meeting of
the sportsmen's organizations of the United States and
Canada, held recently in New York. The reports, covering
every section of the United States and Canada and made
after careful surveys by local sportsmen's organizations,
show that in every state and in every province in which
conservancy laws are in effect, wild life is increasing and
that in every district which has failed to enact state or
local laws, wild life is disappearing rapidly.

"It is customary tor those who have not studied the
situation to blame the sportsmen for the destruction of
wild life and game in this country. The exact opposite is
true. The organized sportsmen have become the leaders
in every movement tending to protect and to conserve
game and fish. They have been the active element in
securing protection for game animals, birds and fish in
both federal and state laws, and the most active interest
in enforcing these laws. They, better than any others in
America, know the necessity of protecting our wild life and
saving a remnant of our outdoors.

"It is not the sportsman, but the 'sport' and the game
and fish hog against whom we need protection. The true
sportsman is a natural conservationist."

Keep all your tools sharp. A small pocket stone is handy
for touching up knives. An ordinarj' flat file will put a good
edge on your axe.

BIG FOREST LAND PURCHASE

THE largest purchase of lands for state forests and game
refuge purposes ever made in Pennsylvania was con-
summated in January after negotiations extending over
a year. The area exceeds 122,000 acres purchased at $3 an
acre, the total cost, including survey and other acquisition
expense, being in excess of $400,000. The land was all pur-
chased from one lumber company and is distributed in
eleven counties. It will be allocated, 70.226 acres to the
department of forests and waters, and 51,845 acres to the
state game commission for refuges and public shooting
grounds. Pennsylvania already has 35 primary and 70
auxiliary game refuges, each surrounded by state-owned
public hunting grounds, with a total area, including both
sanctuary and shooting grounds, of 259,826 acres. The re-
cent acquisition will bring the total acreage of state-owned
land devoted to game to 311,671 acres.

Don't get excited or hasty in using a shotgun; be sure you
know what you are sliooting at before pulling the trigger. Care-
lessness in handling a gun may mean sure deatli to someone.
Stop, look and listen. Safety first.

Observance of the law and eradicaities no sportsmen can
evade.

SAGE HEN TO FOLLOW THE HEATH HEN?

THE sage hen, at one time one of the most abundant
and most popular of the upland game birds found in
California, is facing extermination in at least a part
of its range, according to a recent report made by Field
Naturalist Donald D. McLean of the Division of Fish and
Game. A careful survey of conditions in Mono and Inyo
counties, recently completed, shows that the sage hen is
almost gone in that section.

Breeding conditions in the northeastern part of the state
were bad during the last spring, and the birds in that
section brought forth few young. Consequently, according
to the figures obtained by McLean, covies of from two to
four birds were the rule, rather than eight and ten as in
the past. In the more remote parts of that section, where
few shooters ever disturb the birds, they are present in
greater numbers than in any other section of the state.

After an exhaustive study of field conditions through-
out the range of the sage hen in California. McLean is con-
vinced that an epizootic disease among the birds or a
couple of bad breeding seasons such as the one of the
present year, cou.ld wipe out the entire population of sage
hens in California, and particularly in Mono and Inyo
counties.

Somewhat similar conditions prevail in portions of Mon-
tana.

10

MONTANA WILD LIFE

)prie^ Time at the Game Farm

By HAL KIRK, Butte, Mdiitaiia

SPRING is just about here," said J.
F. Hendricks, superintendent of
Montana's new upland game bird
farm at Warm Springs, as he grinned
at the warm sunshine and indicated the
preening pheasants in his 200-odd port-
able pens. "When the pheasants begin
whistling like that— hear 'em?"— and
here he cocked his head toward a far-
ther covey, whose soft wood-notes were
gently rising and falling — "that's their
love call.

"We'll have eggs along in early April,
if this fine weather holds. Of course,
I've never spent a spring on a game
farm this high in the Rockies, but at
Pendleton in Oregon, where I operated
the state game commission's bird farm
for five years, we usually had pheasant
eggs late in March.

"These imported pheasants might be
fooled on the beginning of Montana
springtime, because some came here
from California and some from Wash-
ington, but the birds we snared around
here last tall ought to know their stuff.
And they're whistling like the rest. We
got 24 Hungarian partridges in about
three days of trapping here, and they
agree with the imported birds.

"We have about 270 here in all .iust
now — 220 ringnecks, which are com-
monly called Chinese pheasants, y'know;
22 purebred Mongolian hens; and the
24 Hungarian partridges. From them
all we hope to get several hundred
young to grow up to size that can take
care of themselves and be liberated in
Montana thickets this year.

"The pheasant eggs will be placed
under the chicken hens for hatching
and mothering of the pheasant chicks,
until they're big enough next fall to
rustle for themselves. Each brood will
have a single pen while they're quite
young. We have about 200 wire net-
ting pens; wire over the ceiling, too,
so they won't fly out and hawks can't
get in. The pens are movable, in pan-
els, so we can seed the ground here
to wheat and rye and such green stuff
to keep them healthy and happy.

"If we get seven or eight pairings
in the 24 Hungarians, we'll say we're
lucky, as the Huns mate for life. So,
when the pairs are made up and the
mating season Is on here, we'll turn
the unpaired Huns out to find their old
mates or new ones among the wild
partridges.

"The little Hungarian is the coming
upland game bird, seems to me. Of
course. I don't yet know conditions this
side of Oregon's blue mountains very
well, but that's my guess. They take
care of themselves the best of all the
upland birds we've yet introduced into
the northwest.

"They fly fast; they're tricky on the
wing — the way they zip and zig-zag
makes a difficult wing shot, especially
in brush or tall grass; and they're
hardy in winter, eating the seeds of
Canada thistles and other things that
stick up above the snow." So Hendricks

summed up the Huns' good points, add-
ing: "You bet the little Huns are OK
as long as the snow crust doesn't get
too hard and keep them locked down in
drifts where they bed tor the night or
keep them out of the drifts' protection
o' nights.

"When the snow's particularly deep,
ranchers and sportsmen who like to
conserve the coveys as well as shoot
through them, can fix up brush piles
for shelters along the gulches and
branches of water and put out sheaf
grain for them to feed on. Threshed
grain scattered out gets covered by
wind-drifted snow so often before the
birds find it, while stood-up sheaves at-
tract the birds naturally. Pheasants
and partridges don't take long to learn
where food is put out for them; no, sir.

Dad's Fishin' Pal

Billy Martin

HERE'S another picture that drives
home the lesson: "Let every dad
make a pal of his lad." Five-
year-old Billy Martin, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Charles J. Martin of Libby, is
shown with nine native trout taken
from Crystal Lake near Happy's Inn.
Billy is his dad's fishing pal and Bill's
dog makes up the trio. Dr. Martin is
one of Montana's most consistent con-
servationists and an active member of
the Libby Rod and Gun Club. The pic-
ture was submitted by Ed Boyes of
Libby.

"Brush piles give the birds some
protection to dodge into if a hawk or
a coyote comes along. Pheasants and
partridges both dislike being too far
from some sort of cover.

"When we get around to opening
the season on pheasants in Montana, I
advocate a law permitting cock birds
only," said Mr. Hendricks, speaking
from a long game farming experience
in Oregon and in studying game law
workings elsewhere. "If a hunter is
allowed a hen pheasant in his bag, just
because he might hit one by mistake
in bad light, he may be purposely care-
less and get more hens than cocks in
a day's shooting.

"That applies only to pheasants, that
cock bird law, because even growers
of the Hungarian partridges can't tell
the cock from the hen, except at cer-
tain ages in the birds' lifetime."

In Montana's first upland game bird
hatchery at Warm Springs are 15 acres,
obtained by the State Fish and Game
Commission. Whenever more space is
needed the hatchery can spread out over
the state-owned land adjoining it. The
plant at Warm Springs, including Su-
perintendent Hendricks' house and tlie
barns and garage and the ever-increas-
ing number of pens made of panels of
wire netting with coop shelters and
all, have been built by the Fish and
Game Commission for wild life conser-
vation.

After it gets well under way the Com-
mission hopes it will produce 4,000 or
more pheasants and Hungarian par-
tridges a year for liberation in the
coverts of Montana's hunting grounds,
to which come increasingly every sea-
son more sportsmen and recreationists
from afar.

Lonesome Lake Is
Finally Lake

LONESOME LAKE, about seven miles
northwest of Big Sandy, is full of
water. This is the first time since
1917 that the lake has had a consid-
erable supply of water at this time of
the year and this insures water through
the summer and fall. Years ago the
lake was famous for duck shooting.
Hunters from many parts of Montana
and distant states came by the hun-
dreds for the opening day of the shoot-
ing season and few failed to get a good
bag of ducks.

Since 1917 there has not been suffi-
cient water to till the lake and the best
duck grounds in these parts became a
barren flat. Warm weather has melted
f and the water has run into the

lake, filling it and discharging down
the creek.

Young Wife: "Aren't you the same
man I gave some biscuits to last week?"

Tramp: "No, mum, and the doctor
says I never will be again."

MONTANA WILD LIFE

11

The Umvereity of Oet^of^Dooir^

IN Pope's very engaging Essay on
Man, Montana sportsmen who are
keenly interested, will find these
lines:

"Thus then to Man the voice of

Nature spake —
'Go, from the creatures thy Instruc-
tions take;
Learn from the birds what food

the thickets yield;
Learn from the beasts the physic

of the field;
Thy arts of building from the bee

receive;
Learn of the mole to plow, the

worm to weave;
Learn of the little nautillus to sail,
Spread the thin oar and catch the

driving gale'."

The great outdoors is an open book
filled with the most fascinating knowl-
edge, yet few men are wise enough to
turn aside from the hurly-burly of life
to study the truths and beauty written
upon its endless pages. The average
writer, fairly well versed in mine run
of subjects, is appalled at his woe-
ful ignorance when called upon to pro-
duce evidence of his acquaintance with
nature's great and interesting library.
A sense of humiliation comes, too, with
the consciousness that this library is
free and in these words of Cowper, he
stands condemned:

"Beneath the open sky she spreads
the feast;

'Tis free to all — 'tis every day re-
newed;

Who scorns it starves deservingly
at home."

Happy is the man who is wise enough
to matriculate in the University of Out-
doors. Both mind and spirit find ex-
pression and joy from the lessons that
nature teaches. If cultivation of mind
and spirit were the only rewards to
obtain from attendance upon nature's
school, the failure to attend would be
devastating enough to humankind, but
the devastation takes on greater pro-
portions because of the enormous eco-
nomic reward which the University of
Nature offers to those who will go into
her grass-carpeted laboratories, her
leaf-bowered halls of science and learn
the lessons which she has so wisely
and deftly written there.

It is only in recent years that we
in Montana have come to recognize, even
in a small way, the vast storehouse of
wealth nature has given to us in the
form of wild life.

No statistician can estimate the part
birds play in the economics of agri-
culture. It has been said that men
would soon perish if all the birds were
destroyed. If you doubt this, go into
the fields and watch these winged la-
borers as they carry on their deadly
attack upon vegetable parasites. The
farmer pays them small heed, but if he
realized that here are his most faith-
ful servitors, working from dawn to
dusk without compensation, save an oc-
casional lunch from his grain or a sup-

Russian Requests
Wild Life

WHEN the circulation of a maga-
zine such as MONTANA WILD
LIFE reaches into the nooks
and crannies of the Old World, it's
evident that its message of conser-
vation of fish and game is traveling
far and wide. Atop the pile of let-
ters from all states of the Union,
from libraries and schools, other fish
and game departments in the United
States and Canada, comes this com-
munication from Zagorsk, Russia.
The note speaks for itself:

Zagorsk, 12th February, 1930.
To the Fish and Game Commission:
Please don't refuse to be so kind
and good as to send me copies of
your 1925-1929 biennial reports and
the complete file of MONTANA
WILD LIFE for 1929 and to be reg-
ularly sent during 1930.

Yours very sincerely,
N. Zverinsky,
Post Office Box 23
Zagorsk (Sergieff) Moscow,
District, U. S. S. R.. Russia.

per from his fruit, he would guard them
very carefully. To make the farmer
aware of the strength of his allies of
the air is an important task for those
who are charged with the responsibility
of game conservation. For it is in the
farmer's province to do more to aid
the protection of game than any one
else. The English farmer has come to
realize that his game crop is as im-
portant as his grain crop. He protects
the game and destroys its enemies.
Records are kept of the annual output,
the number killed, and the shooting is
"rented" on a basis of these records.
When American farmers come to list
game as a crop and "cultivate" it with
something of the same care that is
given other crops, wild lite will take
its place among the nation's most im-
portant assets.

Aside from the bird's importance In
the nation's agricultural program, it is
somewhat astonishing to know that the
national government estimates the value
of migratory fowl killed each year at
twenty million dollars. Pennsylvania
estimates the value of her yearly game
kill at approximately six million dollars.
In 192S in Virginia the records of the
state game commissioner show a million
dollars' worth of game killed in the
state that describes itself as "Nearest
the Heart of the Nation."

The states that are exploiting their
recreational advantages for commercial
gain give special emphasis to such
hunting and fishing advantages as are
theirs. And wise they are, for when
states angle for the sportsman, they
may be sure if they get him that they
have landed the whale among money-
spenders.

Few agree with that Frenchman who
defined a fishing rod as a "long in-
strument whose lesser end holds a
small reptile, while the other is held
by a great fool." Izaak Walton's views

on fishing strike a more popular chord.
Walton declares fishing to be an art
worthy the knowledge and practice of
a wise man, and makes it the subject
of this verse:

"Oh, the gallant fisher's life
It is the best of any;
'Tis full of pleasure and of strife
And 'tis beloved of many."

Consider the fisherman. He is more
often than otherwise a contented, peace-
loving creature. Wise indeed is the
wife who greets with a smile rather
than a frown her husband's announce-
ment of a proposed fishing trip. A
good angler and a good husband can
usually be found wearing the same
shirt. At least, whatever else his
faults, the fisherman generally pos-
sesses a kindly nature. That oft-quoted
Biblical command to parents might well
be paraphrased to apply to wives of
men who yearn for the companionship
of the artificial fly — spare the rod and
spoil a good husband.

That there is a sort of spiritual tonic
tor man in the quietude of the wilds
must unquestionably be true. Someone
who embraces this view has penned
these lines:

"Do not ponder about God,
Just take your hat and fishing rod
Down to the purling brook.
Sit beneath the biggest tree.
Acknowledge everything you see
To be His open book.

Gather blossoms as you pass.
Be glad of all the long cool grass,
That bends beneath your knee.
Take these things into your heart,
Never let them live apart.
And God will dwell with thee."

Because, then, of their spiritual as
well as physical and economic benefit
to man, the fishing resources of a na-
tion should be carefully guarded. Not
to sermonize, however, but to offer a
few practical thoughts about the treas-
ures of the wilds, was the motive that
inspired this article. That being true,
there seems no better way to bring it
to a climax than with the practical
words of Theodore Roosevelt, that prac-
tical man who was an honor student in
the University of the Great Outdoors:

"There is no other question before
the nation of equal gravity with the
conservation of our natural resources.
It seems to me to be time for the coun-
try to take account of its natural re-
sources and to inquire how long they
are likely to last. We are prosperous
now; we should not forget that it will
be just as important for our descend-
ants to be prosperous in their time."

PAY AS YOU GO

Angry Motorist: "Some of you pedes-
trians walk along as if you owned the
streets."

Irate Pedestrian: "Yes, and some of
you motorists drive around as if you
owned the car!"

12

MONTANA WILD LIFE

WHEN commercial captains and
leaders of industries from all
parts of the state met recently
at Helena at the Montana Development
Congress called by A. H. Stafford, com-
missioner of agriculture, sportsmen
throughout the northwest were keenly
interested in proceedings. These same
sportsmen realize that without constant
conservation of fish and game the
much-vaunted tourist travel would be
without a magnet to attract them to
the land of shining mountains.

More than $10,000,000 has been in-
vested in Montana and Wyoming by
westerners conducting dude ranches for
the entertainment of eastern tourists,
according to A. H. Croonquist of Red
Lodge, vice-president of the Dude
Ranchers' Association, who addressed
the Montana Development Congress on
"What Montana Has to Offer the Vaca-
tion Tourist." Mr. Croonquist urged
that the state appropriation for pub-
licity purposes be raised from $11, .500
to $100,000 per year and predicted that
eventually Montana will enjoy a $100,-
000,000 annual tourist business and
largely increased population.

"Back in a large eastern city there
is a family typical o£ increasing thou-
sands who every year plan vacations.
This family we will call Mr. and Mrs.
Traveler, son Jack, 20 years, and sister,
just 16," said Mr. Croonquist in his ad-
dress. "They have the time and money
to take any kind of a vacation they
wish. They write letters everywhere,
visit railroad offices, tour and informa-
tion bureaus, and a few evenings later
they start to look through the stacks
of literature to decide on a vacation.
Only a glance at this printed matter
will show you the competition Montana
has for the tourist dollar.

"European countries, their hotels and
the steamship companies spent millions
to get the 300,000 Americans over there
last year and these Americans spent
$750,000,000, or two and a half times
the amount they paid on war debts. In
all this literature we find France has
established 690 tourist bureaus here,
England direct-mails to all our hotels
and even Germany spends $4,000,000
as a bid for our business, and has sent
a man to the states to make connec-
tions with tour bureaus, railroads and
steamships.

"But not being interested in an Eu-
ropean trip this year, our Traveler fam-
ily files all this away for future ref-
erence.

"'What's this?' Dad Traveler asks, as
he thumbs through a booklet 'Canada,
Canadian Rockies," scenery, fishing. It
appeals to him. The whole family looks
through these Canadian folders care-
fully— they are interested. We learn
that Canada hf>= recognized the tourist
industry and last year got $250,501,000
from the 14,875,000 tourists who went
there.

"Our Traveler family set this Cana-
dian literature aside for future refer-
ence, as the Calgary rodeo appealed to
Jack, and Lake Louise to Mrs. Traveler,

and Dad says returned American tour-
ists arc loud in their praise for Cana-
dian hospitality and what they term
one of the greatest sight-seeing and
sporting countries in the world.

"Now, our dudes look over the lake
region and the volumes of literature
from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne-
sota— beautiful literature, and witli an
appeal that brou.^ht a tourist and re-
sort business of over $100,000,000 to
Michigan, while Wisconsin got over
$1.30,000,000. Our dudes decided to take
a glance through the rest of the liter-
ature, passing up Florida, California
and Arizona for summer vacations. Mrs.
Traveler gets interested in Colorado,
mountains, hotels, auto trips, scenery
and fishing, and we learn that Colorado
and the railroads spent $1,000,000 for

their $100,000,000 tourist business last
year.

"Just then Jack Traveler picks up a
dude-ranch folder and a Montana rodeo
book. Sister thumbs through the
Northern Pacific dude-ranch book — they
see horseback trips, bucking horses,
rodeos, Indians — Jack and sister are
sold, and they start to tell Mr. and
Mrs. Traveler. They tell what they
read of the Montana-Wyoming dude
ranchers. Jack tells Dad Montana is
the third largest state in the Union —
so big it takes the fastest train 24
hours to cross it — in fact, it has 5 per
cent of the entire land area of the
United States and only one-half of 1
per cent of the nation's population — lots
of room to roam around. It's a new
country, Indians, Indian battle grounds,

Mallard Hen Displays Confidence in

Man

— Photo by J. B. Halm, Missoula.
This mamma mallard is shown determinedly sitting on her nest in a plowed field
after the nest had been moved three times.

WILD life instinctively looks to
man for protection, and unless
their confidence is completely
broken, these wild creatures, especially
birds, will place their trust in man.

It must take a brave heart and un-
limited faith for a bird hunted and
harassed as much as the mallard is
for three months of each year, to sit
patiently on her nest while man, known
mortal enemy, passes and repasses
within a tew feet.

This mallard's nest was moved three
times by J. C. Meingassner on his ranch
near Nine Pipe Bird Refuge. It was

discovered during plowing and with the
aid of a shovel was moved out of the
way. Later it was necessary to move
it again to permit harrowing and again
tor seeding.

Mrs. Mallard, although shy at first,
became tame and readily accepted the
nest in its new location each time.
Men working near caused her little
concern after she found her precious
nest was not harmed. She brought off
her entire brood of nine hardy duck-
lings. Many broods in this locality are
saved in this manner for the hunters
annually by thoughtful farmers.

MONTANA WILD LIFE

13

bear, deer, elk, and forests. During
Jack's speech Mr. Traveler has picked
up a Montana book and learns of the
agriculture, livestock and industrial
Montana, and remarks if the family
comes to Montana he will investigate
these, possibly to invest some of the
firm's money out west.

"Jack and sister are all enthused
again when they read about Montana's
mountains, its trout-filled lakes, its
mountain roads and saddle trails — and
its 16,000,000 acres of national forests.
Jack is excited when he reads of 12,000
elk. the deer, bear, antelope and moose,
and thinks of the fun with their mo-
tion-picture camera. Mrs. Traveler tells
Dad Montana spends $200,000 a year
for propagation and protection of fish
and game; that Montana operates 15
fish hatcheries and plants 40,000,000 fish
a J ear in lakes and streams. Surely,
he should catch a few in his summer's
vacation. Sister tells of the two great
national parks and that she and mother
could visit both Yellowstone and Glacier
in 10 davs from any dude ranch, while
Dad and Jack go on a pack trip.

"Now that the Traveler family de-
cides to come to Montana they go
through the railroad dude-ranch book
and the ranch folders, surprised to find
more than 100 dude ranches, camps,
resorts and hot springs located in the
35,000, 000-acre recreational part of Mon-
tana. Some have from 100 to 200 guests,
while others have the number limited
to a dozen people. Some people want
plenty of social life, dancing, bridge,
and general entertainment, and others
prefer less social life and, like the
Traveler family, want a few companions
at dinner time, and people to invite to
their cabin and fireplace in the eve-
nings. Already Jack and Sister suggest
that Dad buy them each a saddle horse
and outfit.

"With horses in charge of real cow-
boys, who act as guides. Jack and liis
sister are planning a pack-train trip.
Dad is to join them. The thrill of a
pack-train trip, tents, beds, cooking
utensils, and all on horseback. Eat in
regular cowboy style, from dishes
passed out by the cowboy cook. Then
from the ranch horseback rides to the
neighbors', fishing, hunting, visiting the
near-by scenic and historical spots,
pink snow and grasshopper glaciers.
Mother says she wants to rest part
time, to build up for the eastern win-
ter and social season, so slie plans to
loaf in the bright western sunshine,
read, visit and play a little bridge.

"A dude-ranch vacation is decided
upon. Dad is pleased, as he does not
have to buy the family a lot of new
clothes, as on a dude ranch there are
uo conventionalities or formalities, and
you wear your old clothes.

"The grips packed, the Travelers en-
joy the luxurious train travel west, and
land here in time to see a real western
Fourth of July and rodeo show. The
first day Jack buys a big hat, cowboy
shirt, boots and overalls. Sister sees
the dudines on the corral fence, so she
too gets a big hat, shirt and cowboy
overalls. Mr. and Mrs. Traveler take
on these western clothes styles more
slowly.

"On the ranch the Travelers were
greeted by a group of congenial people
from the east, but dressed and tanned
like the natives. The Travelers are

surprised and pleased to learn that no
other place in the world has a system
comparable with that of the dude ranch.
Daily trips are planned, from arrival
to departure. These dude ranches
breathe of the old west, yet provide
all the comforts of the new. They take
one away from the rush and strain of
city life and yet in the most remote
places one has every comfort and some
luxuries. The days roll swiftly by — a
ride every day, a little time around the
corrals, on the archery court, rifle
range, at horseshoes, or taking part in
the contests. In the evening a little
program, dancing, bridge, or just visit-
ing with new acquaintances.

"While Mrs. Traveler and Sister visit
Yellowstone and Glacier, Dad and Jack
with four others are on a pack-train
fishing trip. At night, by the campfire
on the lake shore, the boss wrangler
tells of a young New York dude who
came west several years ago for the
summer and in the fall wrote his dad
about the elk, deer and bear. Like
most dudes, he got free with words, so
his dad wired him he was entertaining
a group of Wall street bankers and
to send him an elk. When the young
dude got the telegram, he hired a guide
and horses, and at sunset the first
night he shot the finest bull elk killed
in these parts. The animal was skinned
the next evening, and the young fellow
wired his father: 'Your telegram re-
ceived yesterday; elk in express today.'
This young dude stayed west several
years, bought a ranch and a bunch of
cattle, while now a Wall street banker
still owns, operates and lives on one
of the finest stock ranches in Carbon
county every summer.

"When the party returned, they vis-
ited many hours with the owner of the
outfit and learned that the dude-ranch .
game is an industry in Montana and
Wyoming. With the cooperation of the
states, railroads and big business, they
are spending over $250,000 this year to
create travel west.

"You folks may know more than
$10,000,000 has been invested by dudes
in ranches, livestock and industry in
Montana and Wyoming. Many of the
people who come out as dudes either
own and operate or are interested in
dude ranches. With an increase of this
kind of a vacation these wealthy east-
ern people just naturally fall into our
program of need of capital and popu-
lation in Montana.

"Two years ago a young man came
west for his health. He liked the west,
and in the fall refused to return to
school. Dad came to see what it was
all about and invested $S5,000 in the
ranch, cattle and improvements, and
this year will spend $40,000 more for
land, stock and buildings.

"Three young dudes bought a ranch
and developed it up to $200,000 and do
an annual dude business of $250,000 a
year. Another group of wealthy sports-
men offered $2,000,000 worth of land
to the government for extension of
Teton National Park.

"In Jackson Hole last year thirty-one
ranches were bought by eastern people.
In another section a road bond issue
of $85,000 was taken up by one of the
eastern Visitors, who had become in-
terested in that section.

"One wealthy Chicago engineer who
died last year had requested in his will

that his ashes be scattered from the
top of the mountains near where he
had vacationed for 20 years.

"Other wealthy eastern people have
come to the aid of dude ranchers. In
a number of cases they have financed
enterprises in the region where they
came for a vacation.

"Dude ranchers make excellent im-
migration departments in Montana and
Wyoming in that they bring thousands
of people west every year. When the/
locate on land or invest in our indus-
tries, they have the cash, start to in-
vest and give employment to our peo-
ple. With the state and railroad colo-
nization programs their people have to
be financed and carried 10 years or
more.

"Montana needs a united people and
a united industry, in all an inclusive
organization to help industry, business
professions and agriculture, and again
I say that one of the quick, sure ways
to get people out here— people who can
afford to invest in what we have to
sell, is through the tourist travel and
the dude ranch. If every piece of mail
and printed matter that went out of
this state had a vacation appeal, and
our state publicity appropriation were
raised from $11,500 to $100,000 a year,
we could have a $100,000,000 tourist
business and from these tourists could
build up a million population."

Club Kills Wolf

TRAILING a large gray wolf from
dawn until almost dark in the eve-
ning through more than 60 miles
of snow in the Big Hole Basin, forced
to dismount and club the ferocious ani-
mal to death with a detective rifle after
the long trek, was the thrilling expe-
rience of Sam Pendergast, young
rancher of that section.

Pendergast took up the trail of the
wolf at daylight, riding his best saddle
animal and leading another. Hour after
hour he kept plodding along the trail
of the animal, plainly marked in the
freshly-fallen snow. It was well toward
the middle of the afternoon before the
relentless pursuer came in sight of his
quarry and for several hours the race
was even between the rider and the ani-
mal. Towards evening the wolf began
to weaken and shortly afterwards the
hunter and the hunted were side by
side. The wolf then stood at bay, leg
deep in the soft snow, and Pendergast
aimed. His rifle refused to function.

Not to be outdone, after the long,
weary pursuit, he dismounted and,
watching his chance, landed a telling
blow with the butt of his rifle between
the wolf's ears. This first blow stunned
the animal and the finish was not long
in being enacted.

For the pelt of the Big Hole Basin
notorious killer young Pendergast re-
ceived $50 and at the same time re-
ceived the unending thanks of the stock-
men of that section.

The animal was said by John Peter-
son and O. H. Husted, prominent Bea-
verhead county stockmen, who were
telling of Pendergast's exploit, to have
been a most persistent killer of range
stock.

14

MONTANA WILD LIFE

IpoirtsimiKee Aid ¥mh GoeserYMaoe

Hv KKNNKTH M(T)0>ALD. Aiiacoiula Haklu'iy

NATURE has provided Montana with
valuable assets for the perpetua-
tion of fish life. We have every
reason to believe that we are taking
advantage of them, in part at least, as
it is a certainty that fishing is better
now than it has been for several years.
The law of averages controls this pas-
time as it does all other lines of en-
deavor— we can only expect to get out
of it what we proportionately put
Into it.

This law pertains not only to the
hatcheries of the state but to the sports-
men as well. The sportsmen of Mon-
tana are, as a class, of a high type.
They have raised the code of sports-
manship to a higher standard and much
is due them for the good fishing we
have today.

There was a time when a fisherman
was not considered adept at the art
unless he would return from the stream
or lake with the creel filled, whether
he had use for the trout or not. Many
times he paid but little regard as to
how he got the fish or to the size of
them. Now the real sportsman sallies
forth to the stream, selects his favorite
fly (not flies) and matches his wit
and skill against that of the trout.
When he has caught what he can use
he quits or puts on the barbless hook
and fishes, not for the fish but for
the fishing and returns the catches to
the water content with the satisfaction
that he has outsmarted the wily trout.

The real sportsman realizes that the
seven-inch fish of today is the seven-
pounder of tomorrow. He does not fish
the small brooks which are homes of
the smaller trout and he looks askance
upon any one who does fish such places.

Many fishermen are aiding us mate-
rially in reporting places along their
favorite streams suitable for planting
fish They are in a better position to
know the characteristics of these places
—whether they freeze during the win-
ter months, dry up late in the summer,
and whether there are any irrigation
ditches liable to prove disastrous. All
data of this nature is being recorded at
the hatcheries and is a valuable source
of information.

As for the hatchery end of the game
—of late years there have been some
beneficial changes made in all stages
of the fish cultural work. Some of
these changes have been made possible
through the "trial and error" system,
many through the exchange of ideas

with state or government bureaus and
many through scientists throughout the
country who have become interested in
this work.

The most valuable improvement has
been made in the food problem. When
it became apparent a few years ago
that it would be but a question of time
until beef liver, which had been the
chief fish food, would have to be re-
placed due to the great demand, fish
culturists all over the country, those
engaged in the work commercially,
started experimenting with other foods
until now there are several which have
proven as good or better than the beef
liver and in many cases more econom-
ical.

The rearing ponds have come in for
their share of improvements and wher-
ever practical they are being installed
and are proving a big asset, especially
in raising fish to a larger size.

New systems of aeration have been
devised which have made it possible to
carry twice the number of fish in a
pond as formerly. Other changes have
made it possible to keep a pond abso-
lutely sanitary, thereby reducing to a
minimum the possibility of disease get-
ting started among the fish.

With the hatcherymen, fishermen,
forest rangers and ranchers making
surveys of the streams and reporting
good planting places for trout, we are
getting some wonderful results.

With the waters ideally suited for
trout, the type of sportsman and the
hatcheries of Montana, we should never
have to resort to the program adopted
by some eastern states in planting the
adult fish a day or so before the fish-
ing season opens.

Let us all work to the end to keep
our fishing where it is today, where a
man can catch what he wants and feel
content that he caught them by match-
ing his skill against that of a trout
raised under natural conditions and in
the natural environment where they are
constantly on guard against enemies of
all kinds, and which requires "reel"
science to bring them home.

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Betty: "Do you have any green lip-
sticks?"

Drug Store Clerk: "Green lipsticks?"
Betty: "Yes. A railroad man is go-
ing to call on me tonight."

He: "Darling, you're the light of my
life."

She (not Impressed) : "But you are
furnishing the gas, Mr. Brown."

A Scotchman was building a brick
house and he phoned the Masonic Tem-
ple for a couple of Free Masons.

ON MOTHER'S SEDE

Small Son: "What are diplomatic
relations, father?"

Wise Parent: "There are no such
people, my boy."

DAD KNOWS

Father: "Why were you kept in at
school?"

Son: "I didn't know where the
Azores were."

Father: "In future just remember
where you put things."

DIDN'T TAKE A TONIC

"You say he was run down? Did he
take a tonic?"

"No, took an ambulance."

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MONTANA WILD LIFE

15

Count 160 Deer In
Blackfoot Region

A TEN-DAY snowshoe trip through
the Big Blackfoot country has
just been completed by Deputy
Game Warden Thomas O. Peasley and
Forest Ranger McKnight to obtain a
definite record of conditions of game
on the winter range. Such information
is necessary in preparation of a con-
structive plan of management of game
in the Lincoln territory. A joint ex-
amination by the State Fish and Game
Commission and Forest Service was
agreed upon, since control of some of
the best winter game range is divided
between the Forest Service, state and
private owners.

General snow conditions, according to
reports by Lincoln residents, were about
normal. On the flats around Lincoln
there were from 15 to 20 inches, with
an average of perhaps 18 inches. Some
of the open south hillsides, such as
"Cannons" haystack, exposed to wind
and sun, have snow covering of 5 to
12 inches. The snow is well packed
and crusted, except at higher elevations
and on north slopes where snowshoes
were necessary.

The examiners sighted about 160 deer.
Most of these were rather wild and
appeared in strong, thrifty condition.
An unusually large number of 1929
fawns were observed, particularly In
the canyon below Lincoln.

Two deer carcasses were found with
indications that the kill had been made
by mountain lions or coyotes. One
mountain lion track was noted, but the
signs of coyotes were less abundant
than had been expected.

A portion of the hay put out by the
Fish and Game Department along Poor-
man Creek soon after the intensely cold
period of January was still in evidence,
indicating that the deer preferred their
regular diet of mountain laurel, juniper
brush, sarvice berry, wild rose and
other natural browse. Places were
found where these plants were eaten
apparently in preference to available
bunch grass on some of the nearly bare
slopes, especially in the canyon.

A few elk were found wintering on
Alice Creek, and were in good condi-
tion. None were observed in the Silker
King ridge country. It was reported
that a considerable number of elk was
wintering in the lower country on the
Dearborn side of the range. It is ex-
pected that these will drift back to the

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Alice Creek and Lander's Fork country
as the snow settles.

Further observations on game con-
ditions will be made in April, which
sometimes proves under unfavorable
weather conditions to be a trying period
for game animals. Barring unusual
conditions, however, game on the upper
Big Blackfoot promises to come through
the winter in fair to good condition,
according to the report.

Coyote Hunter
Claims Laurels

APRAIRIE-going car, an expert
driver and a straight-shooting
assistant with a few good dogs
can kill more coyotes than any other
combination thus far devised, in the
opinion of H. W. Matz who has hunted
coyotes off and on for 22 years and the
last seven years in particular. Arriv-
ing at Great Falls recently with 162
coyote pelts which he said be obtained
in northern Montana last fall and this
winter, Mr. Matz claimed a new record
for coyote slaying.

"The 162 coyotes were killed in 68
days." said Mr. Matz. "Of this total
108 were killed in October. I therefore
claim the championship for coyote kill-
ing in Montana."

Mr. Matz has records showing he has
killed more than 660 coyotes in the last
seven years. This record shows 46 in
1923, 76 in 1924, 81 in 1925, 67 in 1926,
92 in 1927, 139 in 1928, and 162 in
1929-30. He expects to get several more
this year.

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a shotgun by the assistant who rides
with Mr. Matz in the special car he has
developed, he said. The car is a model
T Ford that has had many devices
added designed to give it more speed.
It has a special cylinder head, oversize
tires, carburetor designed for speed,
and various other special things. It
will travel from 60 to 70 miles an hour
and its prairie cruising speed is from
40 to 50 miles an hour. As the fastest
of coyotes seldom run faster than 40
to 50 miles an hour, this cruising speed
is sufficient to overtake the animals.

The special car is equipped with a
box on the rear that will hold up to
four dogs. When the occasion demands,
the car is stopped when a coyote is
sighted, the dogs loosed and the chase
resumed.

THE HOME BUN GIBLS, AS IT WERE

She (tearfully) : "I'm going home to
mother and I never want to see you
again."

He: "Too late; your mother went
home to grandmother last night."

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Permit No. 27

ANNUAL MEETING IN APRIL

PREPARATIONS for the animal
meeting of the Montana Sports-
men's Association are getting
under wav. The meeting, which is to
be held in Helena in April, will be an-
nounced through MONTANA WILD
LIFE and newspapers of the state as
soon as Glen A. Smith, chairman of
the group, returns from Washington,
D. C.

Several matters of importance will be
taken up at the meeting. It is well
known among sportsmen that many
rearing ponds are necessary if trout and
other fish are to be maintained in num-
bers sufficient to make good fishing.
To build these rearing ponds a good
deal of capital is required, and some
method of getting this money will be
discussed.

Other things of importance include
work on migratory bird refuges; the
establishment of free public camp
grounds beside lakes and streams ot
the state; the purchasing or leasing ot
public shooting grounds; the inculca-
tion of a high standard of sportsman-
ship among the youngsters of Mon-
tana; the discussion o£ amendments to
the existing game laws.

In the last named discussion the
chief points ot interest will be the need
lor changes, there existing at present
an opinion that the laws now on the
statute books are adequate m most in-
stances. But the matter will come up.

All clubs of the state are urged to
send representatives to the meeting.
Notify the secretary of the slate body,
whose headquarters are at Missoula, it
your club will send a delegate.

NEED MORE REFUGES

NEED for more Federal migratory
bird refuges in Montana is ap-
parent, says George E. Mushbach
of Billings, United States Game Pi-o-
tector for Montana and Wyoming. The
location of these refuges is oue work
that local rod and gun clubs could aid
materially in, says Mr. Mushbach. Such
areas, which will be purchased by the
government, should contain not less
than 10,000 acres. The location of them
should be such that the land could be
made into a marsh, and kept wet easily.
A continuous supply of running water
is desirable for this purpose. High
priced land is, of course, out of the
question. But there must be areas,
especially in the eastern part of the
state, where such refuges would be
practicable. A communication ad-
dressed to the secretary of the state
association would be cared for and
promptly forwarded to Mr. Mushbach.

CLUBS TALK BUCK LAW

T EDDIE MARTIN of Alberton, secre-
tary of the rod and gun club
there, writes that he will make
every effort to attend the annual meet-
ing of the state association. The Al-

My Dad

M

Y DAD, he tells how he used to be
The best ball player in his town,
And the biggest man he ever did

Couldn't wrestle him down —
And Mother, she just smiles.

My Dad, he tells how he used to shoot
At deer with a muzzle-loading gun.
And how he used to fish, to boot—
And never came home with only one —
And Mother, she just smiles.

My Dad, he tells that he never went

With a girl till he met Mother,

And that he never spent a cent

Or a minute on any other —

And Mother, she just smiles

berton club will have several matters
of importance to bring up at the meet-
ing, it is understood. The buck law
and its application to western Montana
is one of them.

CASCADE AFTER ELK

A PLANT of elk in the Cascade
country is to be requested by
sportsmen of Great Falls and
Cascade, it was learned recently.
Sportsmen of that territory say there
is a considerable area there that could
be used by elk without detriment to
ranchers or to crops.

STUDY STREAM POLLUTION

WORK preliminary to a stream pol-
lution study in the Missoula
River has been started by the
Western Montana Fish and Game Asso-
ciation of Missoula. The group has in-
terested the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions
Clubs of the city, as well as the Cham-
ber of Commerce, and will make a com-
prehensive study of conditions. They
will be assisted by Deputy Game War-
den W. A. Hill, acting under directions
of Chairman Thomas N. Marlowe of the
State Fish and Game Commission.

HAMILTON MAN COMING

THE Hamilton Rod and Gun Club
will have a representative at the
April meeting of the Montana
Sportsmen's Association, it was indi-
cated when F. J. O'Donnell, president
of the club, called the state secretary
and asked him to speak at a meeting
in Hamilton March 24. The Hamilton
club has long been one of the prime
movers for conservation and use of
game and fish in western Montana.

TROUT AT BROWNING

AN extensive program of trout
planting is the goal of the Brown-
ing Rod and Gun Club, a meeting
held early in the month with the state
secretary showed. This program will
restock 600 miles ot trout streams and
100 lakes in Glacier county, which is
more heavily fished than any other
place north of Helena, it is believed.
The club will send a delegate to the
state meeting next month, and will
come with a map that shows the con-
ditions as they exist on the Blackfeet
reservation. Frank Sherburne is presi-
dent of the club and J. A. Medaris is
secretary.

PLAN REARING PONDS

REARING ponds and more game
birds are contemplated by the
Flathead Game Protective Asso-
ciation, although Howard Knapp, sec-
retary, says the game law violator is
the worst problem the Kalispell sports-
men have to deal with.

MEETING AT GREAT FALLS

DISCUSSION of the Sun River elk
herd, stream pollution, loss ot
fish through irrigation ditches
and other matters were taken up March
3 when the governing board of the
Izaak Walton League chapter of Great
Falls met with the secretary at Great
Falls. A clearer understanding of the
situations was reached by both sides.

STANFORD CLUB JOINS

STANFORD sportsmen again showed
their faith in the Montana Sports-
men's Association when they voted
to come into the association again. The
meeting of the rod and gun club was
held March 4, with A. C. Baunigartner
and S. C. Rumford of the Great Falls
Izaak Walton League chapter and the
secretary of the state association as
guests of the club. A need for more
rearing ponds and more adequate game
protection was expressed by the club
members.

NEW CLUB AT SHELBY

THE Toole County Sportsmen's As-
sociation was organized at Shelby
March 5, when the state secretary
met with the Lions Club of Shelby.
Twenty-six members signed up the first
night, and named Lee Yealy as tem-
porary president and Clifford D. Coover
as temporary secretary of the club. At
the first regular meeting of the club
March 12 Jean Gerlough of Shelby was
chosen president; W. Ray Walker, of
Devon, vice-president; G. R. Smith of
Shelbv, secretary - treasurer. Directors
are John Mars, Sweet Grass; Ray Sor-
rell, Kevin; H. Abbott, Sunburst; Riley
Robinson, Gold Butte; R. C. Kline, A.
E. Deaton, Oilmont; L. R. Donaldson
and M. B. Chandler, Shelby. Deputy
Warden W. C. Gird of Browning at-
tended the meeting.

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