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Flora Gros Cattle & month Parks.
When they come, they scored stop
him, and there in some numbers.
Ground for feeding Should be
rented for one y eeks.
Cannot tell how settlers could be
protected from Elk day years
when they did not require regular
feeding
Though the elk are too valuable to
be allowed to die. Does not believe
that they can be preserved indefinitely
unless put on a commercial basis.
Profits to accrue by hunting licenses
and the surplus to be disposed of
as meat. Home range to support an
indeterminate number, but this perhaps not
desirable to patron such a number.
Believes The surplus should tend
into money which 4000 worth did this
year. Thinks as elk in winter at least
$20. Average family must use 1 elk
Thinks season should be extended
a month, to gain fat, but should not
be shortened at just cut.
If state felt disposed to perpetuate
the land than it could be kept
up without interfering with the
cattle interests. Think country as
now settled will not count as
many elk as before.
Does not favor the acquisition of the
Sprang by the state vs Good
all the county, from Petersburg to its
brim although this comes in the
premises solution of the problem.
This is against the policy of the
acquisition of land in a settled
community. I would raise rate of taxation on 35000 acres).
Would favor the growing of hay in
the upper valley ditch and etc. but
does not think that orries from the
Jackson part of the valley from
Persecution
The State Game Preserve - is not sure
whether it should be maintained or abolished.
Does not an interference to settle. If they
are in the county, it
should be abolished. The elk are left
from scouting to early fall by it.
Only a small part of the Game Preserves
is needed. 400 think grazes than
100 local not from Jackson county