Iron County Record | 1956-10-04 | Page 4 | Elk Hunting Season Opens on Utah Units

I Elk Hunting Season Opens on Utah Units Utah's general elk hunting season gets underway Saturday, October 6, on seven herd units over the state. They are the Cache General, North Cache, South Cache, Nebo, Mantl, Rich County, and Salt Lake elk hunting units. Closing date for the season is October 11, except for the Mantl area where the hunt on that unit con-teinues con-teinues through October 14. These hunts will see 1,060 permit per-mit holders afield over the seven sev-en areas and represents a maj-i ority of the total 1.393 elk per-1 mits authorized, for thirteen! hunting units by the Utah Board i of Big Game Control this year' Successful applicants for all un-' Its were chosen at the annual public drawings. Four early hunts have already been held on the Ashley-Das-' prett. Ashley . Vernal. Ashlev. Whiterocks and Mt. Dutton elk units. Two later hunts, the Fish-lake Fish-lake set for November 17-25 and the Brown's Park-Three Corners on October 13-21 will finish the regularly scheduled elk hunts this year.