Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-07 | Page 2 | Visitor Tells of Deer Drive Fizzle

Visitor Tells of Deer Drive Fizzle Why the r n a ve Kaibab deer across the Gr Grand Grind nd canyon failed was told Friday by W. W S. S Rust proprietor of the V. V T. T Park ranch located about twenty miles north of the north rim of the canyon canon and almost on the scene of great deer herding fizzle Mr Rust who is visiting his sister Mrs 1 William Wil Wil- liam Beal South Eleventh East street declares that poor management management manage manage- ment meat was the principal cause of the failure although he states that in his opinion deer cannot be herded anyway The enterprise was foredoomed to failure he asserts because of lack of ot equipment and men to say nothing of that driving deer is almost an impossible job I Zane Zarie Grey the author who had the moving picture rights was lo located located lo- lo on a ridge from which he could see every detail of what was happening and I spent considerable time up there with him We could see the line Une of men beating the forest forest forest for for- est and the animals herding along But there were only or so men in the line and from where we were stationed we could see the deer continually continually continually con con- circling around both ends of the line and thus evading the drive At the end of ot the second day there were exactly two deer within the semicircle of men as they ap approached approached approached ap- ap Saddle canyon although at atone atone atone one time or another during those two days hundreds if not thousands of the animals had been in and out the tle semicircle Reports of hun hundreds reds thousands or of deer dying in the Kaibab were denounced in strong terms by Mr Rust It is absolutely untrue that great numbers of deer are dying Besides those dying of old age or fighting or accidents and perhaps a few which succumb to ailments peculiar to deer none are dying I There is not an oversupply of feed but there is enough to enable all nIl the animals to weather the winter in good shape Reports of 1 I ipg ing deer in the Kaibab are mere I propaganda I