Show I OUTDOORS By z-By Stan Taggart We accompanied the local conn const con st rv at Ion officer officer Cottonwood Canyon and over the top into the Ogden n Canyon drainage last Sat An elk hunt had opened l in that area Ju juet t that morning morning and and 35 gun were milling about the mountainsides accompanied by their ers ere guides photographers and ando o other ober ber assorted companions The first hunter we we met reported reported re reo ported that he had seen no elk Ho Ito J said a Game Department air airplane plane had dropped him a not note a afew afew I f few minutes earll earlier r stating that the elk were higher and further I eat east He Ill climbed in hIs hla red pickup pick up truck and motored off orr up the steep winding road road headed headed east The next hunter that came along was herding a worn well j jeep ep lie He had bad two old timers and fa a young boy riding with him They seemed to be enjoying themselves them them- selves solves but had seen no elk Some feller fellers down the ridge I there have got em a couple of bulls bull though one of the elderly eld eld- I erly g gents nta sald There five of em em emIn In one jeep Jeep and and they all five g got t elk permits Kilt lIt em ema a two-point two an and a four four- point four right beside the road Further on we came caule upon a pair pl of or trucks and horse trailers The were not yet saddled saddle and Mr l Elk Permit Holder was Just tying his boots on even on-even even though It was only an hour or two before noon He Ha came over to get some last minute advice from flom Game Warden varden Porter He lie smelled a little mUe bit like Seagram's VO Up on Magpie Flats Fiats F ts there ther was Wall hardly any n snow w. w When all those thos airmen landed there a arear year ago November 14 U. U there there was quite abit a abit abit bit of the white stuff stutt up there And And It it was colder then too loo We aw taw a few elk tracks th there re on top The drive down Bennett Dennett Cant C Can n. n yon on was wu rough Utah should be called the cobblerock tat A short abort distance down that Weber County side eide we we saw paw the five permit permit per per- mit mft hold holders ra in one one jee Jeep who wh had hai two tulle bulls They were were bunched up out on a Ugh high point waiting for three more elk to show up I Lower down we joined up With two two mor more State Conservation Conserva I ton tion Officers Officer LeV LeVere King of it and of I I Randolph n The They Pied hid counted 60 elk that morning most moat of I I which thy they th y Mid did h Id d t tf trailed all u unto UP Into nto the th heavy timber on on the west side Ide of Bennett Creek A Afew Afew Afew few hunters hunter on horses were In there trying to o find em ein Off Of In Inthe Inthe the distance we could see aee two two clusters of red clad foot hunters hunter One On group was W dressing dress dress- ing out but outs ut s a large cow GOW elk lk Theother The Tho Theother other one was wu w s still looking for something to shoot at It I I Ad An we rolled slowly down t down own the rough zigzag zig-zag road we t encountered cued ered still more gr groups ups of hunters hunters' Iwho I who WIlD had failed tailed and succeeded hit ard ard ml missed ed I Ij j I I saw plenty of or elk and got a aw I I tow w long Iong s o e unsuccessful hunter Matt Thompson told us us near 4 j At the checking station near the he the m mouth th of or Bennett Creek the tour fO four r of us ue ate us-ate ate dinner with Weber I County County Coulty warden Bud Dud Blakely Weber a luscious heap of or f fried led spuds n onions fruit pIckles coffee and coffee and a loaf of that good heavy brown I i bread made by the monks at tue hearby monastery I I j Then Regional pig Big Game Man Man- Manager ager alter Dob Hinman drove up He lie HeI tad lad been crossing cries the I g area in an airplane that morning and now gave up the lowdown on where the various bunches bunched of or elk were located I I 1 tried to direct one on party of hunter hunters over a rise ae seven en elk were hiding up Bob related And And you know what They topped over the only darned place on that whole rIdge where they thy couldn't possibly pos po ably sibly see aee those tho elk There was wa one nice big bull In the the- herd I too I Boy Doy if LaVere LeVere and I would've had permits this thia morning we could've taken our pick said LoVon Th Thomas mas who'd seen five dozen of ot the big beasts beasl that day If It you'd had permits you wouldn't wouldn't have seen any any elk Bob nob replied d. d Those can really holdup hold holdup holdup up tight notes a local scatter scatter- gunner who got into a bit of partridge shooting at Mountain Green last week eird Wed hunted hunted hunted hunt hunt- ed all around of em em emhe he relates Then while we Were wore just juet there talkie they I flew up right tight out from under our i feet teet I And every time a I few got up up they'd glide j around a hill hili then land and Ind I of It t. t j run up on top lop huntin hu it really tak ket rr a tot lot of j I legwork And I thought phea phea- 1 lint Cant huntin could be rough I S C I once nation Utah once again led the in In Inthe the harvest of mule de deer r du dur du during ing 1958 1953 according to a big game gamel j inventory recently l Issued by th the theUS US 1 Fish and Wildlife Service covering all n states elates The report j I shows bows that only one state elate Texas had a greater total deer kill than than did Utah with the figure re for I Texas Including both whItetail and mule deer |