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Show Refuge Work Done; Birds Come Back HE PEAT AFTER M- E- Continued from Preceding Page higher temperatures. Mortality Rate Drops Following the discovery that regulation of water depth and consequent regulation of water temperature placed the mysterious malady under control, the mortality rate among the duck population of the Bear River Migratory Bird refuge has dropped with each succeeding summer to a very low rate. Million Dollar Investment The Bear River refuge today represents an investment of about a million dollars. Besides the original outlay for dike building, a great deal of money has been spent in the finishing-of- f A gravel road and process. telephone line 17 miles long were built from the nearest town to the refuge headquarters at the diversion dam. The faces of the dikes were dressed with gravel, and automobile the roads constructed along tops. The refuge was fenced and t steel obposted. Two servation towers were built and additional control works constructed. A fill of several acres was made and administration 100-foo- buildings constructed at a cost sickness" or botulism." After years, 1,400 returns were receiv-e- d the treatments, the patients refrom a total of 9,000 birAi gain their health and strength banded. Returns came from in a "convalescent pond until Central America on the south they were sufficiently recovered and Arctic on ttie north. and power plant building, to take wing again. The value of the refuge in in machine shop, large garage, The same waterfowl breedcreasing bird life can best ba boat houses and other strucing and feed area which several judged by the record of the tures. years ago was mostly a dry mud whistling swans. In 1928, one The buildings all are heated flat, devoid of any kind of life, thousand five hundied of these by natural gas, supplied by a today is covered with a solid birds wintered on the refuge. nearby well. A plant operated mat of aquatic growth. Sego In 1933 the number increased by natural gas supplies electri- pond weed and other natural to 6.000 and in the fall of 1934, city. The administration build- duck foods are found over large there were 13,000. In the fall ot 0 ings are of concrete with red areas. A luxurient growth of 1935 it was estimated that tile roofs, and are modern in ev- tules and rushes covers thouswans visited the refuge oti ery respect. The aquatic lab- sands of acres. Vegetation is their return from nesting with-the Arctic circle. oratory building, designed af- spreading over all of the marsh. ter one at Ann Arbor, Michigan, A visitor to the refuge today Attracts Many Tourists is devoted to aquatic research. may see vast flocks of ducks, For a number of years past, The building contains 40 glass geese, swans and pelicans feed- the refuge has attracted thoutanks for the development and ing on the broad expanse of sands of tourists and bird lovstudy of local marine life. water around the tules. Aeoeets, ers from all parts of the nation. stilts, Ibises, snipe, sandpipers, They drove the twelve miles to Old Conditions Restored phalaropes, herons, gulls and the refuge on a graveled surt From the top of a many other water birds wade faced road which, in soma steel tower observers may along the shoreline of the dikes. places, was barely wide enough through powerful glasses, watch Refuge officials have counted to accomodate two cars when all parts of the refuge. 194 species of birds on the ref- they met. of this numhowA couple of years ago, uge. Eighty-seveHospital Treatment ber are classed as strictly water ever, the state highway departAt the refuge hospital, emervarieties.' If you make a trip ment agreed to give financial of every descrip- to gency cases the refuge today you may see aid for a new highway all tha tion among the 200 species of at least 69 species of birds who way from Brigham City to tha birds that use the refuge, inremain on the Work was begun almost cluding not only ducks, but out the summer. refuge through- refuge. the after the final approval day Canadian geese, white swans, Build was made, and now the hardNesting Islands pheapelocans and To more area for surfaced two-lanroad is comsants, were brought in for ground-nestin-provide birds artificial pleted and being traveled.- and observation and dystudy By providing an easy access islands, 600 feet long ing birds were installed in nesting 125 feet wide, have been to the refuge, it is expected to wards consisting of rows of and The success of the con- attract many more tourists and frames covered with wire built. struction of these islands, an visitors than ever before. Tha screening. idea which originated on this new highway will enable a moHere experts had the oppor- refuge, is evidenced by the fact torist to drive across marshes tunity to give each sick bird that 493 nests were counted on and swamps as he would motor individual treatment. If a duck one island the second season. across the upper highways ot or swan was found suffering The first season, 169 birds nest- the nation. A number of commercial as from lead poisoning, water for-- ; ed theie, refuge recoids reveal. ced into its stomach with a bulb Today the refuge is a com- well as government moving picand hose washed out dozens of plete success; the duck sickness ture films have been made on lead shotgun pellets that the is under control, the duck pop- the refuge and shown throughbird had gulped down in its ulation of the great sw'amp is out the world. As a hunting grounds, the research for food in areas where rapidly growing and the. time shooting is permitted. A dose is not far distant when the fuge is popular, perhaps the of medicine from a tall glass marshes will again be restored most popular place in the west, as for the government has allow-e'graduate, instead of a spoon, to their former condition cures a pelican troubled with found 100 years ago by Jim hunting on two of the five unit3 of the lefuge each year, stomach parasites or worms. Bridger. A weak solution of The late Wallace Beery, well-knoDuck banding at the refuge Epsom salts, film star, built a small administered with the hose and has proved the impoitance of bulb, frees a duck's system of the marsh area to migratory log hunting lodge near the on Following Page) the poisons of "Western duck bird life. Over a period of seven of $65,000. Headquarters consist of a modern office bungalow, laboratory budding, superintendents house, water filtera-tio- n 20,-00- m 100-foo- ring-necke- e g ''Tourist I 1 Nothing Quite So Refreshing A in to clean see you apparel your luggage, for fresh, crisp, Heres your chance to exchange the soiled linen along your vacation route. It takes only 2 hours, washed and dryed while youre visiting, looking over this interesting area. And the same speedy service on dry cleaning and pressing, too. Unpack those bags and get a FRESH start, right here. Bring them to us, and be sure to ask for our TOURIST SPECIAL service ! sight-seein- O' -- 4' g, V, Tourist Special TAKES 2 HOURS Washed and Dryed ONE SUPERIOR SERVICE ONE LOCATION , . BRIGHAM - LAUNDRY MESERVY DRY CLEANERS . Phone 62 144 South Main On A Warm Summer Day Be Sure To Ask For BOX ELDERS OWN mm mi - Homogenized Or Cream Top |