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Show YV )Ult. 1141 Second! and Dresidine the This comment comes all liidi euuuii- - I II I Another shells loaded with black pow-deperiod During one ten-da, and founder he averaged 111 ducks. a day, duck club on the b1 the late James taking out 150 shells each 5 son has related that e tecord for duck others hunted f0r th The from 1895 b this area, accord- markets slaughter in iicaJ 4a..wi. i ing to Kaiser, was held by V. F. Davis, a local market hunter, who, in 1899 with a pump gun Continued From Preceding Page and paper shells, killed 335 in one day. 'This was ducks river. mouth of the Bear flock shooting, and Davis would Thousands of Acres of Ducks United States not shoot unless he could kill In 1849, the sent Captain How- four or five duck' with each government ard Standsbury of the topogra- shot. phical engineers corps to ex- Brought Good Prices by The ducks were picked plore the Salt Lake valley. The following excerpt taken from women and girls during the night ,and the next morning Standsburys report is were shipped in Ice to Kansas City, Butte, Denver, Chicago and "Monday, October 22, 1849 The market San Francisco. The Salt Lake, which lay about hunters received $1.10 a dozen was to eastward, the a half mile $1.50 a dozen for flocks of for teals and covered by imense mallards. Dressed geese brought wild geese and ducks, among ten cents a pound on the Chi- - out mud decoys, a din which many swans were seen, , (Continued on FoUoirJ cago market being distinguished by their size and the whiteness of their Steady . . . Squeeze The Shot Off plumage. I have seen large flocks of these birds before in various parts of the country, and especially on the Potomac, but never did I behold anything like the immense numbers here Thou together. congregated sands of acres, as far as the eye could reach, seemed literally covered with them, presenting a scene of busy animated cheerfulness, In most gracious contrast with the dreary, silent solitude by which we were immediately surrounded. Market Hunters Come r. Precision Flying Visit To Refuge Worth An Well r Vi.- - && ftf ' 'a 1 , , ;i ' fy' it Y.Z , - , ' ?w - '' ,' 1" "'' ' t ' ' '' ' "X&A Not eguipped with less offer hunters jet motors, these snow geese neverthemoving target that requires the a fast best of marksmanship. Sixty-fiv- SEE US mm MOTOR FIRST all-tim- Hour Or A Day V f, old-tim- e y e years ago public demand fo rthe succulent wild duck brought many market hunters to the Bear river marsh area. There are still a few men living who can give an accurate and interesting account of their market-huntinactivities In the late nineties. The late Rudolph Kaiser, Sr., early-damarket hunter, recalled that 65 years ago, when a boy of 13, he went into the Bear river marshes with an old muzzle-loade- r fo kill ducks for the Chicago markets. Kaiser said that in 1887 he killed in one season, 1,880 ducks, and that his record for one days shoot was 196 ducks. He "shot from a boat blind and used a double-barre- l shotgun and brass g SALES y CO. The largest natural hot and cold watsupply in the world. 11 MILES NORTH OF BRIGHAM CITY Automatic Recoil Starter Hundreds take this stance at the Bear River Bird annually for as good duck hunting as is available any Over a million ducks stop over at the refuge each f |