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Show Bis: .Animals. Arc Already LIn!:ip2 aiis n .Lanifcs, ana Sliccpmcn 'Arc' oa Guard, r ; : '-.. i It Is a fact notfgenerally known that good bear hunting may be had within twenty miles of Bait Lake. . , " According to reports from reliable men, the rugged mountains where City Creek, Hardscrabble and North Mill Creek canyons converge are the retreats of t many bears. .They are Bald to have become so numerous as to prove a menace to the herds of sheep that feed In that district. One sheepman killed nine last .. year. The animals make their homes In the mountains at the heads of the canyons and raid the sheep pens at regular intervals. The bears follow on the trail of - the herds through the-valleys and pick up stray lambs. At night they become so bold that they do not hesitate to attack the herds. , The ungainly brutea hibernate In the winter, in holes and caves in the mountains, moun-tains, but emerge from their long period of slothfulness In March or April when the snow disappears. They-are then thin and ravenous and It takes a good many choice lambs to restore them to their customary plumpness. A bear and two ; S cubs were seen ay near the city as Natural Bridge last summer, and a number were killed in that neighborhood during the summer. |