DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER VOI* XXXIII. NO. 45. Denver, Colo., Thursday, June 30, 1938. « Resort Section. - - • ■N • ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ COOL COLORADO T y % *• Denver girl stands with lier back to old i n U l c v j f c u t K j n v n u u i jy,, u ,260-foot lugii in the baekground.1 This scene was snapped in the Denver Mountain parks, 11,000 acres of primitive mountains and streams and game, and only 30 minutes by automobile from the heart of the capital city of Colorado. Page 2 THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Hoff-Schroeder Sightseeing Tours QAME, FISH COMMISSION “ Famed far Food” • CRISP BALADB ~ Mike Masterson • FRESH VEGETABLES I YEAR OLD THIS MONTH • HOME MADE PASTRIES AND Sightseeing Tours ICE CREAM 611 17tli St. The Colorado game and fish tons a day of fish food for state trappers held in Denver last DENVER KE. 3269 commission is a year old this hatchery consumption. April. For the first time in de­ month. Just a year ago, the com­ BREAKFAST missioners held their organization Upland game birds were studied partmental history all field men Buy From Register meeting and elected officers. Since throughout 1937, with the result were assembled under one roof, LUNCH DINNER then, the outlines of a long-range that at the April, 1838, meet­ in the house of representatives, 16th and Welton St. Advertisers. Please ■wildlife manjigement program ing commissioners approved con­ where they had an opportunity to exchange views, discuss mutual Mention Catholic have become visible. Fish, big struction of a new game bird and small game, upland game problems, and plan improved ICAFETERIA Register. birds, and ducks have all come in farm at Colorado Springs, where methods of procedure. As a con­ for their share of attention. Plans Chinese Ringneck pheasants and sequence, all employes were im­ iliscussed 12 months ago are tak­ Chukar partridges, principally, bued with a renewed sense of ing form. will be propagate;' and then 'public responsibility and pride in distributed to all parts of the An “ inventory” shows that, in their work. The game and fish i f ? COOL COMIORT the past 12 months, about 40 re­ state. The present game bird comfnjssioners, who sponsored this farm at Canon City will be used event, were present at all sessions, Bring your out-of-town visitors taining ponds for trout have been for incubation purposes, and newly to Denver’s finest restaurant established, or are approved, to and expect to make it an annual hatched birds moved to the Colo­ occasion, believing it a stimulus to Air conditioned. Colorful serve numerous state streams— rado Springs plant, where they Cocktail Bar. the Rio Grande, South Platte, Big morale, besides being highly edu­ will be raised to maturity. OPEN ALL NITE Thompson, Gunnison, White, cational. Michigan, Conejos, Eagle, and Also at the April meeting, con­ The commissioners regard them­ others. The warm water hatchery struction of a warehouse at Gun­ selves as representatives of ail and retaining ponds at Wray nison was authorized. Here ade­ sportsmen in Colorado. The fore­ have been set up as a WPA project quate storage space for winter going “ inventory” was submitted where bass, crappie, sunfish, cat­ feed for deer and elk herds in that as a short (and very incomplete) fish, perch, and bluegills will be area will be provided. Food­ report of their stewardship for bred as soon as the plant is com­ chopping machinery wil\ be in­ their one year in office. Through pleted. The new carp-drying plant stalled; two trucks for transporta­ Colorado Conservation Comments, 'WEEK OF tion of rations to feeding grounds at Las Animas is already in opera­ by broadcast over radio station JUNE 26TII AT tion, turning out more than two will be purchased, and a garage KLZ (second Saturday of each built. This arrangement is assur­ month, at 8 p. m .); more recently EUTCH’S ance that antlered wards of the by a series of weekly broadcasts CLYDE state will not starve if snow- (Friday at 9 p. m.) originating THEATER blocked hghways prevent importa­ at KOA and carried over the en­ c o y Mountain P a rk tion of cake and hay. A longer tire NBC network; by releases to “ROOM M C open season for 1938 was con­ the state press, metropolitan news­ sidered justified, in view of the papers, and radio newscasting prosperous big game situation, services, the commissioners have . SERVICE” and more territory will be thrown endeavored to keep sportsmen in­ A Farcf C«m«dy With SUGAR Close to Denver open. KENT ftMITH formed about departmental affairs, KATHERINE MESKIL The State Trappers’ unit, which are, in the final analysis, the FREDERIC TOKERE created in the first months of the affairs of the sportsmen them­ WALTER GREAZA b l u e s A m I Ike 19U Elitch CMRpanjr Denver has only to go into its commission's existence, has grown selves. License fees paid by Ho l l y w o o d front yard to play in the moun- XJiMier the Director of from a nucleus of five men to the sportsmen support the game and GeorKc Somnes ■tains. present roster of 14. Each mem­ fish department, and the depart­ h k c h e s t r a Matowe Wfdncaday Scenic finery and a multitude of ber of the group is an expert and ment is accountable to those who and Satarday Featuring the recreational facilities make Bear is well qualified for this line of make its existence possible. Reservations at Creek and Turkey Creek canyons work. Operations are confined to Baur's, K £ . 8104 favorite spots for Denver and her beaver control. Where over-popula­ J>*8lers and never-ending streams of welcome tion exists, beaver are trapped and HighwayDepartment M’ayne Gregg guests. moved to other localities where Dance All P . Within 15 miles of Denver the their peculiar talents can be em­ Has Maps Available fevening great canyon of Bear Creek opens ployed to advantage; or pelted, if L a d ie s 20c its arms in welcome to those who the ' beaver is not suitable for *^n»lemen 40c would fish in the clear rushing wa­ transplanting, and the hide sold at The state highway department ters, picnic in the shade of an auction. Revenues from this has highway map folders available Free Parking evergreen grove, hike over flower- source are credited to the game for the ppblic, according to W. carpeted trails, or just motor cash fund. M. Williams, director of publicity through quietly— and look. Active measures to control of the 4^partment Owing to a Dime at the heavy .demand, the first supply of For those who elect to ride winged vermin have resulted in the horseback, bridle trails are numer­ destruction of thousands of crows maps has been exhausted, n^ccssi- tatii^ a reorder of 50,000 from ORCHARD CAFE ous; for those who like to camp, and magpies, and consequent pro­ unirsuai opportunities are pro­ tection to duck nests. The cam­ the? printers. The maps may. be DELECTABLE MENUS—OPEN TIL 12 EVERY NIGHT paign has been under direction of secured by mailing a post card to vided, and for those who prefer i;he Publicity deoartment. State Ride the WILD CAT and many other thrilling rides. the niceties of home, furnished a predatory bird expert who or­ “^Highway department, Denver. FREE Picnic Grounds cabins are available.. Or your ganized and supervised hunting- wishes can be easily and gener­ parties in which scores of sport# ously satisfied if the polite service men participated. Further -to o f a modern hotel should strike stimulate interest in this a cti^ y , jfour fancy.- designed to advance migrsAory All this, and much more, can be bird restoration, merchants in found in Denver city’s mountain Northern Colorado have sponsored park system, which covers 11,000 banded crows and magpies, paying acres of rugged, wooded, flower rewards to hunters ■who bring ornamented region, only a few down identified birds. /' miles, and a few minutes by auto, Fa-st diminishing antelope herds from the heart of-Colorado’s beau­ present a situation .that must be tiful capital. There are a paved remedied. P rotec^n to a sub­ road from Denver to this city- stantial portion o f the remaining EXCLUSIVE ^ I owned mountain wonderland, and antelope populatijin is afforded by a paved road back to the city if the closing of M sections in Mor­ you wish to return by another gan and Wasbmgton counties to E flS U lO N S i route. hunters. With federal aid in the For the golfer, this vast natural form of I^ittman-Robertson act park, which is bounded on the funds, the^ picturesque animats west by the always glamorous Mt. should d ^ v e further benefits on Evans, there is an 18-hole course land acqfpired by the state under offering attractions for the shot- this act for wildlife restoration maker such as no city links could purposes. hope to offer. And here it is cool Gratifying improvement in the and zestful always, and with a Colorado duck census, and re­ mountain vista unfolding continu­ quests by Colorado sportsmen, ally that makes it difficult for cpiivinee the commissioners that some nature-loving golfers to keep a more liberal mig;ratory water- their minds constantly on the busi­ 'Towl season would be consistent ness at hand. ^ with good conservation practice. Here, too, is Red Rocks park* Recommendation to this effect is fantastic creation of nature that expected when the Colorado com- ■5) defies description. The very sq^ne mi.ssioners meet with U.