Show UTAH ELK LIKE THEIR NEW HOME i I 00 4 9 00 00 00 4 4 00 c 00 00 0 0 00 4 0 00 0 00 00 00 0 26 NOW RANGE IN DRY FORK CANYON CANYONS O S SOME OME up of the Utah elk The camera man had trouble in getting near enough for a close I L 1 l f A S i 1 1 s 4 U P Y Animals Killed in State Last Year Mostly Bear and Wildcats TAR TAlI elk are flourishing flourishing and and U UTAH increasing A herd permanently located in Dry Fork canyon near Bingham refuses to leave when given the opportunity A. A L. L Heaston pioneer to whom the preservation of wild game has long been a hobbY was in n Salt Lake yesterday yesterday yes yes- from his Bingham ham home where he has been instrumental in establishing establishing lishing lishin a home and feeding ground round for this herd of about twenty six elk which the the- government allowed Bingham Bingham Bingham Bing Bing- ham parties to take tace from Wyoming two years ago and place in Dry Fork canyon near Bingham The first shipment was from Iron the Jackson Hole country and consisted often of often often ten buck elk elIe Three of these died from hard usage and were foud dead when they were unloaded They had been subjected to great reat hardships when they were hauled from Jackson's Jacksons Hole to Driggs Idaho on sledges This first shipment was made in March l 1914 1314 and the government g allowed the Bingham people to get another shipment a year later PURSE IS RAISED raised a purse to pay the expenses of bringing the g game me in in which consists of 5 1 per ner head to have havethe havethe the animal c caught freight on no the carload ear car load to about and feed for the animals while they are en route The second shipment consisted of often often often ten elk reached Bingham In the spring of 1915 Since then the elk lk have increased and prospered They I occupy an inclosure in Dry Fork can ean- yon win on An n It tract trait of land which was fur I by Heaston and his associates In Tn places the fence ha has t become broken and the elk roam roam at will But the they nc rio r- r Tnt rn n seem to care to leave their Dry DryFork Fork anyon canyon home and are often fie seen en enin in that neighborhood Two of ot them there were killed recently by b foreigners and L sportsmen are to ask for n 11 law to be passed which will forbid L foreigners from having firearms in their possession Pennsylvania nia pas assed f d an alien hunting law forbidding foreigners from owning or hunting with shot shotguns uns or rifles and the supreme court of the United States passed upon this law in 1914 stating as its decision that states had the right to tm prohibit foreigners from hunt huit- inc ing Utah will be asked to pass such sucha L La a law Jaw Other protective measures will h he be urged tinted which will tend towards keeping keeping- up Utah's stock of game PLENTY OF GAME In addition to possessing a wealth untold in mineral resources that have made Eastern states envy Utah over and above the the fact fact that Utah has flocks of cattle and sheep on her thousand hills and pastures that give Ive her ler one of ol the foremost places in the nation in L that line beside wast treasures buried burled in resources of salt timber honey sugar dairy product products Utah has anothEr another an an- an- an other feature that will in time make it the thA envy of the older states which began too late to preserve their wild game For roi Utah i is the hunting huiting ground of 01 the nation Here lere wild game in I dance lance is yet to be found Elk Ell bear and L deer make Utah their home sage hens grouse pheasants ducks geese etc abound in the mountain passes and upland regions and arid Utah's streams abound bound with fish her lakes are the homes of untold numbers of the finny beauties and hither each year ear during hunting seasons thousands of tourists wend their way to find amusement and recreation from the wear and tear of ol Eastern business life KILLED Last year in the state of Utah there I I were killed wild animals mostly including bear wildcats and m mountain L lions These animals do not include fish or game g-ame birds the hunting huntin of ol which furnished sport for unnumbered L thousands during the year just passing Forty thousand people applied for permits to hunt and fish within the state during 1916 The example of ol other states which have awakened too toe I late to the fact that their wild game has passed away has awakened many a natural lover of game to the fact that the coming legislature will be called L Lupon upon to enact measures that will still further protect the propagation of 01 game I I i fr frT T 4 S |