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Show DUCKS I UTAH HAVE FIE MM RESORT Warm Water at Locomotive Spring's Obviates Necessity Neces-sity of Going South. Utah is probably tbe only stato in tho Union where ducks anil goose havo a fiuo winter resort. Instead of going south at tho first snow many of the thicks which escaped tho guns of the htintore have flocked to Locomotive Springs, where there is a bip sheet of water with a tenipcnkturo of about 00 degrees on which ico nevnr form?. . Not only tho warmth of the water, but the fact that, it flows freely l'rom thn springs prevents it from freezing. Tho fow. hunters who liavo baeu to Locomotive Springs this fall report that there are thousands of ducks and geese swimming about in tho wanrl water. Residents in that vicinity say that the fowl remain thero all winter as there is plenty of feed for them-iienTby. them-iienTby. Not only ducks and geese, but other wild fowl take advantage of .the warm water for their mntutinal baths. When a blizzard is blowing they get under tho shelter of roods or bushes and doubtless arc grateful to nature for the boon of plenty .of warm water even ou tho coldest days. |