Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-06-19 | Page 20 | Miners Plan to Circumvent Beavers

l f Miners iners rs Plan to Circumvent Beavers GOLDEN B. B c C. C June 1 If 1 AP AP- AP So thick and industrious have beavers beav eavers eav- eav ers ere become in the tho valley that they aro are seriously interfering In Interfering interfering in- in with mining operations according to II H. E. E Perlain of Wilmer Wll- Wll mer who is is' developing claims on Horse Thief creek Tho The beavers by damming the creek caused water to back up Into the mine and it was some sonic time b before fore the reason was waR discovered d. d After a search the mine worl workers ers located lo located located lo- lo a beaver dam an and blew it uy II 4 Jr but th the mine immediately again agaI I filled with with water Another Investigating Investigating invests gating party found that the destroyed de destroyed destroyed de- de dam had been reconstructed and reinforced in weak weak spots pots by the busy animals within twenty four tours Furthermore some sixty saplings cut into usable lengths were found r ready ady for for further work on the dam Officials of ot tho the British Columbia game board In an effort to overcome overcome overcome over over- come the difficulty have suggested that the flume idea evolved by the biological survey of ot the United Slates States be tried out on the creek This is the cutting of a flume through the beaver dam so that the water will not rise above a certain point on the theory that Mr Beaver pays s so much attention to his his his' work that he never gives es a glance upward Though persistent as well weIl as industrious there Is a limit to the beavers beaver's patience and finding th that t his dam does not succeed succeed succeed suc suc- In holding the water back he and his crew shift to some other place and begin homemaking all allover allover over ovel again Three years ago the tho game board closed the season for tor trapping beaters beat beav be beavers w- w ers south bf of f the tho Canadian Pacific railway and the animals is have mul mul- multiplied multiplied multiplied so rapidly that they are ben benr be be- n nr n