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Show Reports On Deer Hunt Indicate Successful Season Reports have begun to fiie int the offices of the Utah Fish and Game Department and from th first signs the 1948 deer hunt ..! be called successful, according tn Fish and Game Director R t Turpin. ' ' "We are pleased with reports the hunters have turned in. n seems that there has been less adverse comment on the success of the hunt than for many years All in all, it seems that more hunters came back with more bucks this year. "Few permanent checking sta. tions were set up this year," the director explained, pointing out that this was an experiment to keep the law enforcement offir. ers in the field where the actual damage is done, and to set up spot stations here and there to make game checks when violators least expected them to be run. "The state has received a lot of criticism from not having stations in all canyons," Mr. Turpin pointed point-ed out, "but we have picked up more violators than ever before and we have kept the cheaters' guessing as to our location ln fact, we have run more road blocks than before. The difference is I that no one knew where the npvt one would be, and they didn't have a chance to make plans to avoid them." : The game director, after talking talk-ing to many of the field men, agreed that the weather, despite the heavy foliage and the chance for the big deer to hide up, made the season profitable this year. Hunters were able to make the most of the summertime network j of timberline roads. i |