Show l PLEA LEA FOR BOUNTY Editor Telegram ram 1 0 O. C. C N. N protests against raising the bounty on wild animals be- be the poor public IHl pays lYS S 'S the bounty and the rich reap the benefits If he lie will put hilt himself out to i investigate he will win find that Mr 1 rr pays the largest taxes and pays his hi hired cd help help by hy f far 1 th the largest wage of any uny common laborer And he will find that it is IS the son SOil of the poor farmer he lie mentions who gets all the bounty on the wild animals lie He speak of the free ran range e that the flock ow owners ers get Let him put a few head of stock on said aid free range and he lie will find that every animal put on that forest reserve is is counted and paid for before it it goes on oil the range And AmI he ho will vilI find if he lie reads Forest Notes for the end of 1916 1936 that tbt the government nt has hns restricted the grazing razing of of domestic animals on a about two million acres of public lands that it might be used for elk elk vange and what wat poor farmer can afford to get an au elk J Coyotes and mountain lions arc are playing havoc with our limited supply r of deer at the present time During the thc winter time tune it is a avery avery very ens easy r thing for a lion to capture any deer in a bunch and during the summer months coyotes live very fat on young fawns for they arc very easily caught then even een by a man on foot and one would be safe in in saying that 75 per cent of the increase in iu deer yearly is desho destroyed destroyed de de- de- de sho ed by wild animals I am am not making much of a guess at this for trapping is my business and I know whereof I am speaking 0 JU C. C N. N doubts that there is such a thing as rabies among coyotes I did until I met up lip with it an and now I J know that the poor farmer will win lose Jose two dollars jo o the rich s one comparatively speaking speaking speak speak- ing because one coyote in ill a corral corrah of horses will win soon put a poor pooran poorman poorman man an out of the running entirely Lets Let's s have e a bounty and a universal mark for with the states adjoining ours and make the bounties high enough to clean every coyote and lion out of our country j. j R. R s. s I |