Show BEASTS OF PREY HUNTED BY UTAH State Employs Men en to Kill Predatory Animals in Wilds The trapping shooting and poisoning of predatory animals is being carried on actively by the twenty five hunters employed by bythe the state livestock comI commission com corn I mission according to Secretary Thomas Redmond who returned today from Provo where he ho attended to the shipping of ot a consignment of oC furs to toan toan toan an Eastern firm Th The The- shipment included hides hides' pf pt 10 Co coyotes otes 19 9 bobcats 1 gray wolf 21 badgers and 2 woodchucks At this season of ot the year rear the furs of the animals taken are arc not in prime condition and do not bring winter prices A recent estimate places the number of ot sheep destroyed in Western Vestern states by predatory animals at annu annu- ally The Tho state hunters an and the bounty boun boun- ty hunters succeed it is claimed in preventing any considerable increase In iii the tho number of ot predatory animals I but many years will pass before beCore these pests are eradicated The state hunters Cooperate with the I biological survey in the taking of ot the animals and a system has been worked out by which th the entire state is cov coy ered San Juan county the largest and the wildest county in Utah takes the lead in the number of predatory l animals which require the attention of ot Continued on page S. S i. i S 'S J. J I BEASTS OF PREY Continued from page 1 the hunters One notable instance of destruction was that of a bear sixty five sheep in one night in that county |