Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-12-27 | Page 11 | Utah May Get Two Carloads of Elk; 60 in All

OT AH MAY GET TW T 1 CARLOADS OF ELK 60 IN ALL j Game Commissioner Puzzled as as to t Securing Funds for Haulage 3 jj Word was received this morning b Fred W W. Chambers state fish an anc game commissioner from officials officials' o othe the United States department of t th interior and bureau of animal indu try advising that Utah had been two carloads of ot elk from t tJ herds in Jackson Hole Thie This will make an addition of t abo sixty animals to the he elk herds in std state i Commissioner Chambers however is confronted with the problem o OJ di raising money to bring the into the state It is estimated that the total cost of transporting the eI eIto ell elf to Utah will be about and al althere i there is available in the stati treasury which can be used for th th purpose it will be necessary to rais the money by public subscription 1 The advices received by Chambers also stated that the first carload was ready foe fOl the state as soon Boon as th the th money money to pay transportation charge was forthcoming I Utah already has received more more than one hundred elk from the the- Jack Jac Jackson Jackson son Hole country and these have shown a good increase The animals have been closely watched watched and and guarded guard ed by the state game wardens an and only one or two have been killed The result Is that the state now has se sev several eral crab fine herds of elk elk whereas the animal w was s almost wholly extinct within the boundaries of the state several years ago Chambers ha hanot hanot has ha not decided where the additions to the state t te herds will be placed