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Show Busy Beavers Endangering Crops by Diverting Water POCATF.LLO. Idaho. July 3. The beavers, famous for their work or destruction in days goR by, are attracting attention ac-ain. The animals are becoming numerous nu-merous in certain parts of southern Jdaho, and have reached such numbers num-bers as to endanger erons hi the Oakley district through shutting oft" the va'.c-r supply by building dams and divert in? the water from its re ru ra ciia nne'. K.cavers in streams tributary to the Coo crek re.-'?r o:' in Cassia coun-t coun-t v ha ve hocked uv "licn-;u watrv '.'kh dams ihey have ouilt to irrigate ah cops on the Tv in 1'alU -Oakb'y p-oiect. which are now burning up for want of water. This information is given out by I Dave Rich, a deputy in the eta to game department, after a trin through the OaMey country. Mr. Rich t1nt to Oakley to destroy the da mx built by the heavers, with dynam't-, but fmind the .V'h 'oo bier nnd t-a e it up. No fewer than p'0u beavers are !iv!n; 'n tho sfveams tributary io Goosi3 creek between Oakh-y ard trie Nevada stat Hue, said Mr. Rich. ; T'cmr of the dams built by the Beavers were destroyed by Mr. Rich j iL'Ft Sunday. Retutnin? to the seer.1' ! the following da. the game warden i fouvd fret the industrioM animals ! had rebudt them. Tho rtnima's -'--rk J bO raridb th-i r lb'- on!-, ipfj" of" jainc t-at irrigation uivj': u i'l he to d':s:rov the bt-a vert. If is p'-oha- I bU- that a trapping campaign ii! be ha uE'tn in the proper seacn. but, according to Mr. Rich, thb remedy is too late to be of any value the pres-vji pres-vji ent seasonal. |