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Show Some elks die of old age During the 1959 winter elk tagging program at Hardware Ranch in Blacksmith Fork Canyon, four elk were tagged with small bells. These bells were attached to leather straps placed around the elk's neck. Through the years that followed, fol-lowed, reports were received of three of the belled elk being harvested. But, the one lone cow returning to the Ranch each year became a pet as well as an attarction to those people peo-ple visiting annually the Hardware Hard-ware Ranch winter feed lot. The surviving elk was tag- S' ged as a mature cow in 1959. j, Thus she was nine years old :; plus. After surviving the past j: winter tours of people visiting ; Hardware Ranch, old age j caught up with her and she quietly passed away this past ) spring near the Ranch. Then there was a man who , had sunk so low that when he : finally got himself straightened !. out, he died of the bends. : Paul Boese. |