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Show 1 50 BULL ELK I TO BE KILLED AT MI NEBO Cattlemen of Juab County Protest Against Encroach- ! ment on Range by Elk. ! By Herald Staff Correspondent. NEPHI, Xov. 12. Fifty old bull elk from the Mount Nebo herd will j le killed in the near future. This was the promise made by IX II. Madsen, fish and game commissioner commis-sioner of Utah, to more than 200 stockgrowers and citizens of Nephi Fountain Green and Eureka gathered in the Juab county court house at Nepbi Tuesday evening to protest against the rapidly increasing increas-ing herd of elk in the canyons around Mount Nebo. The promise was made following the unanimous request that such action be taken for the purpose ot sen tenner the herd into other canyons can-yons in the state and after Commissioner Commis-sioner had emphatically declared that there can be no open season on elk and that there can be no limited licenses issued for the hunting ot elk at this time. George O. Ostler, president of the Cattlemen's association of Juab county, presided and Thomas Vickers, secretary of the association presented the views of the organization organi-zation on the question. II pointed out that the permits to graze stock on the range where the elk is feeding had been reduced from approximately 4200 to 2S00. although al-though he acknowledged that this reduction was not entirely due to the elk. Several cattlemen told of damage done to the land and the destruction destruc-tion of feed by the elk. Among those who urged that something be done in the interest of the stock growers were A. C. Christensen, forest ranger; J. Raphael, superintendent of the Uintah forest; Wilson Glazier.. .Tames Ockey. Victor Foote, -George Belliston, C. E. Huish and H. V. Hoyt. Mark Anderson, manager of the Hotel Roberts at Provo and formei official of the forest service, who Is well acquainted with the elk situa-. tion in the Jackson hole country, ! said that each elk in that section is worth at least $100. He declared that if the elk is protected in the state but scattered throughout the mountain ranges, it would not b& many years until Utah would bel come the greatest big game state in ; the nation and that hunters from all over the world would come here annually for the hunt. He said thai the elk have a real economic value and not for ornamental purposes. On motion of C. E. Huish xt Eureka the following resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote: "After duo consideration of the question of the distribution of elk in congested districts in and around Salt Creek canyon. "Be is resolved that it be the sense of this meeting that not to exced 50 head of bull elk be killed, because the killing of such animals will not be detrimental to the herd and also for the reason that a limited amount of supervised shooting shoot-ing will have a tendency to distribute distrib-ute the elk to other nearby sections; the said elk to lie tilled under the supervision of the state fish and game commissioner -and officials of the forest service. "Be is also resolved that a. committee com-mittee from this meeting T)e named to act in conjunction with the above named officials to nrrange the de-i de-i tails pertaining to fhe tilling of these animals nnd tue distribution ' of the herd of elk." j The following 'Committee to nr- range the details of the killing was selected by Mr. Madsen, Virgil Jacobson. Fountain Green; C. B. Huish, Eureka ; George O. Ostler. Walter F. Brough and Edgar Park ;of Nephi. ! Mr. Madsen assured the Nephi ' and Eureka people who had assisted assist-ed financially in bringing the elk to the district that they would, he considered during the killing of the elk and that no outside sportsmen would be permitted to participate in the shooting. |