Show POISON BAITS WILLBE WILL BE BE- PLACED FOR UTAH COYOTES Stockmen Take Steps to Prevent Recurrence of f Half Million Loss Five hundred thousand baits are going to be distributed on the win winter winter ter ranges In Utah this fall in an ani effort to rid the state of predator predatory i animals whose activities last year caused a loss totaling more than I to the Announcement to this effect was I made today by Thomas Redmond secretary sec secretary of the state livestock commis commissIon commission commission sion following his return from Provo where he conferred yesterday with George E E E. Holman of the biological survey of the United States department department department depart depart- ment of agriculture It was decided that the federal and state authorities together with tin th should cooperate in the greatest campaign ever attempted in inthe inthe inthe the states state's history and it was though thought that with all interests pulling together together together to to- gether in the common cause pred tory animals would be as scarce as the proverbial hens hen's teeth by next spring That the federal and state author ties tics see the wisdom of an extensive campaign is indicated in the fact that tha the total amount expended for services services services ser ser- vices of trappers and others this year Is thousands of dollars in excess of ot previous years More Moro money is to be expense being a secondary con consideration in the great task of exterminating exterminating exterminating ex ex- terminating the animals which pre upon stock meant for human tion According to an estimate made bythe bythe by bythe the biological survey it is said that one gray wolf destroys 1000 worth of beef in a year There are many gray wolves in the state Rich county alone reports the presence of sixty sixty- seven Duchesne Grand and San Juan counties also report the danger that threatens stock many gray wolves having been seen prowling near tilt ranges David Moore of Castle Rock Summit Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit county reports that seven gray wolves are operating in that territory and that they have already committed great damage A special trapper willbe will willbe be sent to that place immediately Coyotes and predatory animals generally generally gen gen- however are not Invading the stock ran ranges es to any great extent at ai present They are for the most part sustaining th themselves on the berries With the advent of cold weather they will it is expected seek their prey as in other years on the winter wintel I ranges The state and federal authorities i I to nip and the livestock men propose their activities in the bud by scattering scatter I ing log the poison This work will be begun begun begun be be- gun about September 15 and it Is I thought will result in hundreds of coyotes wolves and other predatory animals dying Five hundred thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand poison baits wisely distributed I I it is believed will result in the wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale extermination o of the beasts |