Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-04-27 | Page 3 | Fraud in Coyote Bounty Plan is Charged

F FRAUD AUD IN COYOTE BOUNTY PLAN IS CHARGE V A Animals Actually Bred for fr Pelt M Money ney State Auditor Auditor Audi Audi- V tor tor Believes NEW LAW TO BE ASKED S Se Semiannual Trapping by St State te teP P Pid Paid id V V Be Recommended n ed V V V V Elim Elimination nation of bounties on coyotes and other predatory animals animals animals ani ani- mals and the substitution there there- f fj for r of semiannual trapping by State paid will be recommended recommended mended to the next legislature by the state auditors auditor's office This Idea ii ted by William J. J Seely deputy deput state a has been indorsed b by Lincoln G. G 1 Kelly lY state auditor and other state tate officials V The principal reason given by Kelly and Seely for tor their plan lan of 01 eliminating ng bounties is that the payment of ot bounes bounties bounties boun boun- ties es falls taUs to to exterminate te the coyo coyotes es They They say that the bounties have not Xen res' res resulted In reducing the natural increase of t the animals and tl this ls de despite despite de- de spite the tact fact fact that the state is annually annu annu- u- u ally lly spending ng from to o. o Though so soV 0 V far tar unable to trace the charge t to earth Kelly has been in informed informed informed in- in formed at various times tines that in the coyote breeding seasons spring and tall fall the animals are allowed by sheep sheep- men pien to Increase in order that the bounty bounty boun boun- ty of ot the offspring hides may be had V This same information has come from federal inspectors who have been sent into Utah V and Nevada to trap coyotes They say proper trapping and killing in the breeding season would soon oon decrease the pests and that the Increase Indicates nothing more than an actual raising of ot coyotes otes in order to get more bounty Another bad feature of f the present law is that persons having killed coyotes coyotes coyotes coyotes' coy coy- otes otes' V here and having been paid the bounty may collect bounties on the same ame pelts in surrounding states staleS the bounty laws not being uniform In the event it Is decided to keep the bounty system some uniform state laws of ot Western estern states must be devised Kelly believes believe He lie estimates that the cost of ot sending out trappers each spring and fall tall on 01 salaries for tor the wholesale killing of ot coyotes would not cost the state more than half halt the present yearly amount amoun spent for tor that purpose