Show POLLUTED WATER I NOT RESPONSIBLE I OGDEN Sept 28 Dr B. B H. H Ransom chief chier zoologist of or the bureau of or animal anima I industry department of or agriculture has I made mado a brief Investigation into the conditions conditions conditions con con- regarding the epidemic among mon th the wild ducks along the shore of the lake While he did not take tho time to make a a L aL careful study of or the disease Dr Ransom L Is quite sure that the great loss loes of ot life liCe among the tho ducks IB is due to an infectious I disease rather than to retus refuse which is ft dumped Into the waters of ot the Weber and Jordan rivers In company with County Commissioners Commission Commission- ers era O. O B. B Madson Madsen and Moroni Skeen th the government zoologist made a trip to tho thc shooting grounds of or th the Wasatch Gun I club H arranged to have several se carcasses carcasses car car- casses of ot dead ducks sent to him in Washington D. D C. C and also procured samples of or the tho water In order to make an analytical examination for bacteria I 7 do io not think It probable that the I. I sickness is III caused by refuse dumped into the water ater said aid Dr Ransom upon his from tho the shooting grounds It looks more like an Infectious or bacterial disease As tar far faras 8 as I can learn the sickness sickness sick sick- ness fleas Is confined to tho the shooting grounds of or Utah No case cue of or the kind has ever been reported from nn any other part parl of oC the United States It acts very much like an infectious disease and in that case caBO it could not be attributed to the refuse from the factories The theory has b been en advanced by several sev uv eral hunters that the ducks had been beon poisoned ned by the le sewage e and sugar tao fac factory tory refuse which reaches the Weber and Jordan rivers Dr Ransom came to this city from Idaho Montana and other northwest tates I where T hn lie has b been cn investigating the th disease II among ton tit ahl |