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| Governor Strong's annual report of
I the Alaska game law was received In
last night's mail. In his introduction
the chief executive of the territory
says:
Alaska is, by far, the most extensive
wild game country of the North Am
erican continent. In the number of
moose it is preeminent, while deer.
' mountain sheep, mountain goats, and
caribou are widely distributed. Be
1 sides these, the brown, grizzly, polar.
glacier and black bears are numerous
[ In some of the geographical divisions.
1 The lakes and rivers, bays and inlets
1 are the homes of myriads of water
1 fowl of many species. Shore birds
1 also are plentiful.
• The principal habitat of the moose
i in central Alaska is found on the
Kenai peninsula, but moose are also
! present In considerable numbers in
| the regions drained by the Yukon and
1 Tatiana rivers and their tributaries.
1 In the latter sections moose are pro
bably decreasing in number, while the
i moose of the Kenai peninsula are pos
* sihlv slowly increasing, this condition
- being due to tlie possibility of stricter i
enforcement of the game law. In the
vast regions of the Yukon and Tatiana j
valleys it is much more difficult to i
entorce tne law necause or tne great
distances to lie covered by the few j
game wardens employed, die fund forj
I this purpose being limited to $20,000 i
I annually. When it is considered that j
Alaska embraces ,"01.000 square miles
of territory, and that in all these vast
regions game of some kind is found,
the Inadequacy of the appropriation,
| becomes vividly obvious.
The great caribou region is found
in the interior of Alaska, in the dis
tricts drained by the Yukon, Tanana.
Forty-mile and other rivers and their
tributaries. The annual migration of
these animals takes place in Septem
! her and October, the caribou travel
. ing in great herds many miles wide j
at a leisurely paee. During this
period there is considerable slaughter
by hunters and settlers. Caribou are
also found on the Alaska peninsula,
and to some extent on Seward penin
sula, northwestern Alaska.
The common, or Sitka, deer are
found only in southeastern Alaska, for,
the most part on the numerous islands
that form an almost continuous net
work along the coast. The only other
. game animal found In southeastern
Alaska is the brown bear, although
black bears are numerous in nearly
all sections of the Alaska Panhadle.
Mountain sheep are found on the
Kenai peninsula, in the Copper river
region, in the Mount McKinley dis
trict, interior Alaska, and in other
sections of mountainous country.
Mountain goats are found in some
districts of southeastern Alaska, north
to the Chugach and Wrangel moun
tains.
Although the deer of southeastern
V luubn huvu hnon rlHtwIlv rv»•/-»*nci
for some years, and although pre
serves have been established for their
conservation, it is probable that they
are slowly decreasing. This is due in
part to excessive hunting during the
open season and to the ravages of
wolves on some of ttie larger islands.
To obviate the destruction of deer by
wolves, the Alaska legislature, session
of 1915. placed a bounty of $10 per
head on all wolves killed. As the law
has been but a short time in opera
tion, it is too early to form an ac
curate idea as to its usefulness. As
an instance of the destruction of deer
during the present year, it is stated
. on excellent authority that the sol
dier. stationed at Port William II.
Seward, on Lynn canal, up to October
IS, had killed about 200 deer. These
men are not charged with violation of
the law. hut the practice followed in
thus hunting deer, if continued, will
inevitably lead to their almost com
plete extinction. The soldiers hunt in
sipinds of fifteen or twenty men, and
while none may exceed the limit al
lowed by law, and probably do not,
the havoc wrought in deer slaying by
one hundred and fifty or more men
, can he easily understood.
The game of Alaska la a valuable
asset of the territory, but It will con-1
tinue to be such only so long as It can
be adequately protected. Indeed. It
is an asset of the nation, and the ex
isting game law should be thoroughly
revised in order to furnish the pro
tection which the settlement of the
territory renders more imperative
with the passing of each year. In
order to protect the deer of southeast
ern Alaska the killing of fawns less
thnn two years old should be prohibi
ted. and does should also be protected
for a time. If this were done there
would be no doubt as to a substantial
increase within a comparatively few
years. The law should be amended so
as to require a hunting license for all
persons hunting game, whether resi
dent or non-resident, a nominal sum
to be charged for each license issued.
In this way a check could be kept on
all hunters, which now is impossible.!
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SEATTLE, Feb. 25. — Alaskan na
tional forests are being populated
rather rapidly as a result of the de
velopment of the new government rail
road. many homesteaders entering
them the moment construction of the
line was assured. Word of this
movement was brought out l>v W. <!.
Weigle, supervisor of national forests
in Alaska.
The territory's two reserves com ■
prise close to 2h.000,ntHt acres, hut
sawmills are very scarce. The few
that are operating, according to Mr.
Weigle, arc running only about 40,000
feet in a ton hour day. Transporta
tion is limited to water in the reserves
and the forest rangers are compelled
to operate six boats for inspection
purposes.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — Practi
cally every activity of the government
in tlie conserving of human life is de
scribed or demonstrated in the Safety
First exhibition which is open in the
United States National Museum tliis
week. It is the first exhibition of its
kind ever held by the government, and
shows what the various government
departments and other organizations
are doing in the way of safety first
movements by rendering leae danger
ous many industries, making travel on
land and by sea less hazardous and in
general instructing the public in the
essentials of the movement. The idea
originated with the bureau of mines,
which already has done so much to
ward making the lives of workers in
the mining industry more secure.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
T. J. Erickson, his heirs and as
signs. and to all whom it may con
cern:
You are hereby notified that there
has been expended, during the year
1915, the sum of seven hundred dol
lars ($700.00), lawful money of the
United States, in labor and improve
ments on the Lucky Strike group, and
the Hig Four Fraction, located at Mc
Kinley Lake, in the Cordova Mining
and Recording Precinct, Territory of
Alaska, all of which is of record in
the records of the said Cordova Re
cording Precinct at Cordova, Alaska.
This labor and improvement was done
and performed on said quartz mining
claims under the provisions of Section
2924 of the Revised Statutes of the
United Statfco concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being (lie aggregate
amount of labor required for the year
1915 upon said claims.
And unless within ninety days after
the commencement of the publication
:>f this notice, you contribute one hun- r
ired and seventy-five dollars (1175.00)
is your proportional part of the ex
penditure on said Lucky Strike group
*nd Big Four Fraction, your interests
in said claims, then ail your right,
iitie and interest in said claims will
become the property of your co
awner. the undersigned, who has
made such expenditure as the law re
quires. H. THISTED.
Dated at Cordova. Alaska, this 14th
day of January, 1916.
Date of first publication, January
14, 1916.
Date of last publication. April 14,
1916.
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