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Show The sportsmen of the State should be willing to pay a reasonable fee for the privilege of fishing there, especially during the life of the contract on this water while it is being paid for. There is no doubt, under proper care, that the fur- bearing animals produced on that marsh land created by this lake and on the edges of the same, under proper supervision, will amount to a great deal of revenue, after they are once established and protected. We are told by competent authority that we have a larger variety of migratory wildfowl in the vicinity of the Bear River marshes than any where else in all Western America. This alone should be an attraction to people to visit that locality, to see these beautiful shore birds of many varieties, as well as other game birds. The original plan, as was drafted and presented to the last Legislature, left to the State Game Department all the fishing and hunting rights en the project. So far as the Game Department is concerned the promoters of if this project have never had, to our knowledge, any selfish motive relative to our part of the same, but have continually shown a desire and willingness to work in harmony with the Sportsmen of the State. V'V - 29 - |