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Show BIG MONEY IN MOWS' EGOS Boys Are Champion Collectors. Bounty Industry Is Quite Flourishing One in Salt Lake. Fifteen-Year-Old Lad Makes His Appearance Ap-pearance With Eighty-One Eighty-One Dozen, The champion collector of sparrows' eggs made his appearnn.-e al the Auditor's Audi-tor's oftlcn yesterday Edward Morgan Is his name anil he Is about 15 years of ago. Young Morgan brought In eighty-one dozen Just P72 Incipient pests upon which Deputy Auditor Hlgginrotham paid hlrn $4.05. or o cents a dozen lxunty as provided by law This Is the largest number of f-pgii ever brought in by one person at one time, the nearest approach to it being Afty-seven dozen, brought In by Charlie Parker on May 10 Good Day for Epgs Yesterday was a pretty good day for Sparrows' egg-j. fully 250 dozen being brought In for destruction and. Incidentally, Incident-ally, of course the collection of bount The bounty Industry In sparrows eggs Is quite a flourishing one at this senon of th year The pmall ivjys are quite Industrious In gathering up tho eggs nnd earn many nimble nickels for their efforts. ef-forts. Largo Collectors. Among the larger collectors of eggs yesterday were Bert Miller, 17 dozen; Wesley Latham. IS doseh; Wlllard Wor- then 1-1 dozen. Iiwremo Dee, 11 dozen: Willie Jeff.T 10 dOSen Deputy Auditor ITlgglnbot ham. for convenience) ke.-ps a supply of small change on hand, so ho may pay the boya as they como In. Good ir. the Sparrow. County Auditor I M Fisher, who Is Bomewhat of a naturalist, has recentl) discovered some good in the despised English sparrow, He was looking out the window of his ofllce the other day and ellscovered a sparrow very Industriously Indus-triously picking the microscopic seeds from a dandelion, that other pest Of the vegetable kingdom. After Studying the maneuvers of the diminutive bird for a time he declared that ho now had more respect for the little dusty birds that England sent to trouble ve a few vears ago. |