Show MOUNTAIN LIONS LONS EAT WILD COLTS Morsel More Wore Toothsome ome Than Titan Titans s Calves or Lambs 4 SOUTHERN RANGE RUINED WORRIED BY DISMAL PROSPECT FOB FORi PEED F Richfield Nov 11 Mountain lions hOps IDs are assisting the th stockmen sk of at southern Utah Uth in reducing the U herds her of dl wild Bones or which the It is reported roam r te ranges I I that the te lions lo have considerably the herds heS by bj devouring the colts CIt Young colts seem s to be b cb morsels morI morse I for the wild beasts b and it is i said that not over ove fifty colts colt escaped the lime 1190 U this tua season on o the Boulder Bulder Thousand Lakes Luke and Fish Lake mountains The Te lions hess seem to preter the colts colt to lambs Jamb and calves and since there have been ben a great groat gret colts colt born br on o the ranges range the te tny Past few years year the bea bt ts of pr have ve al ci almost almost most ceased cs to molest molet the offspring of sheep sh p and rattle cattle As AA the lions are not much hunted and have read access ace to choice coice food fo they have been increasing inere n nIn In numbers rapidly and threaten some sometime sometime time to become me a great ret menace to stock stockmen stOckmen men especially when nhsn the wild wid horses be begin be begill gin gill to grow scarce sauce Down in Kane county count the horses hors have about abut deserted the th haunts of the lion lon and an are ar increasing so o fast fut that the stockmen stocke have recently upon their ther extermination A prominent stockman just up from crom the south says that with wih this thi means meang ien u fm employed ie dep depredations of the lions Hone lon and an the starving t te to I death deth in hard winters n the wild wid horse horae bore bands of southern souther Utah Uth wilt will wU soon sot become a thing of or the past pst Range Eaten Eten Away I are becoming considerably worried over the condition co nd of the ranges Ion in southern Utah Despite the te good god rains of the past summer feed Is very scarce I and many are arc at a loss whre h e eto to take their sheep next season This scarcity of at feed te is due to the close cloe crop cropping cr cropping D I ping of the many herds hers on these the ranges range I They have not only destroyed the ranges fur f i cattle and bes but have eaten themselves out u has bs been be n nibbled nibble I down to the very ver roots so s that tbt much of ot It i has been completely destroyed and nd It tv will nill HI be years even if left alone before I Ithe the ranges ran es will be hO anything like good I again Every bit of available range has lias I been thus cropped off and the outlook j for next season s grazing is very cry dark I Many owners have encroached upon the reserves reserve In their extremity No sooner had the rangers left l ft the Fish Flah lake re reserve reserve reserve serve about the middle of October than herds were rushed In and they are fast cleaning out the feed teed the peat past pa sea seasons seasons seasons sons watchfulness had hall allowed to get a good start The rangers are reporting the matter to the government and are making aa an effort to get the season for watching the ther extended to the thel let 1st l t of December Sev Several eral herds will be this s sea season a ason son IOn down in the San Sn Rafael and aDd Green river deserts deaerts and sheared at Thompsons Springs S In the t sold teu there Saunders e Co o of ot Salt r Lake are now buying up lots Iota of f and forwarding to the deserts Selling Sellin Off Cattle The selling of ot cattle herds b because Of this scarcity of feed teed still continues The Tha Brinkerhoff Brothers of Therber Wayne county have Dave Just disposed of their big herd of or or OO head to Wiimer Thomp Thompson son eon formerly of Millard Mil lard who now owns a We bir bt stock farm In Cole Colo He will the cattle his Colorado farm and has hu parties now out outon outon outon on the ranges In Garfield county round rounding rounding ing log the stock up The celi per head were 12 1 for yearlings JUT 16 for iii 11 18 for dry cows COWl and 25 25 for cows and calves Several small cattle owners will probably also dispose of or their stock to Mr 1 j i |