Show Long Tailed Rodents of Big Size Slain by the Hundreds 1 T HE southwestern part o of Salt Lake Lakes THE T JL Is s overrun with rats big sleek rodents of varied color and ravenous appetite Some idea of the extent o of the pest may be gleaned from the fact that on the Smith broth brothers ers chicken ranch at Sixth West and Eleventh South streets rats have been trapped and killed In less than a month In other parts of the southwest side rats have become terrors and an at attempt attempt attempt tempt Is now being made to have the state or county place a bounty on ro rodents rodents rodents dents In order to exterminate the pest I Primarily the rats were brought Into the mountain country In freight cars Through freight from the east has shown the effect of rodent habitation and when the freight was unloaded In Salt Lake the rats have haye left the cars to tomake tomake tomake make a new home From the west also I rats rat have hae come and after atter the San I Francisco earthquake the rodents thought that a change of climate would be more conductive to their The rats being foreigners they are not welcome wel ome and they be wel wet welI welcome I come probably if they were here first but the colonies have grown to such I proportions that it Is actually alarm alarmIng alarmIng alarmIng Ing It Is said that the destruction of the Lemp brewery at Third West Vest and Eighth South where a new building now stands had much to do with the scattering of the rats over the west westside westside westside side Alvin B Smith who with his broth brother er has bagged rats in less than a month has led the fight light on the rodents He claims that there are rats In great numbers on his ranch as well as on the property adjoining At Eleventh South and Seventh West Wrest at Third West and I Sixth South at Second West and Tenth South and at State and Eleventh South the rats have formed colonies While all are enormous In size one weighing more than three pounds and measuring eighteen Inches from tram tip to tip Up Is regarded as the prize rat of the bunch He Is now dead The rats have killed chickens until the poultry rais rats raisers raisers ers are alarmed and an organized campaign will be started |