Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-07-16 | Page 9 | Gas Will be Used to Kill Prairie Dogs

Gas Will Be Used to Kill Prairie Dogs r Unable to tip lip carbon by express tho the state crops and pests commission yesterday sent Hent Jesse Tesse W. W Fox crops pt pests ts Inspector in inspector inspector In- In of Salt LIt Lake county count to San Juan county with ten gallons of or tho the explosive and 1000 waste balls that will be used in tho the ex extermination extermination extermination ex- ex termination of the few rodents left lefton lefton lefton on a tract of ot land embracing n. n acres res Together with M. M I. I Thatcher Allred Alired of Monticello they thoy will distribute the waste balls bails wit ha few drops of tho the liquid gas cas In the holes where the rodents live The Tho gas SM does the rest The he campaign that has been Jeen waged against the prairie dogs doss and arid sim Mm- similar ilar pests pesta in that section of ot the state Is tho the greatest campaign of or the kind ever waged in tho the state and has haa resulted In Jn tho the slaughter of thousands of ot The few that remain will bo be exterminated with trl the gas gal