Times Independent | 1930-11-20 | Page 1 | $5.20 Bounty Paid on Each Predatory Animal

5 20 BOUNTY PAID ON EACH PREDATORY ANIMAL the average price paid by the livestock owners of utah for the killing of a predatory animal Is 5 20 a head it was computed saturday from records in the office of the state board of agriculture the cost is paid through the bounty fund which Is supplied by special taxes on the sheep and range cattle and horses of the state in the two years ended june 30 last it is found bounty was paid by the state on coyotes in the amount of 84 the bounty being 6 a head on bobcats bob cats at y on mountain lions at 15 1830 on 62 bear at 10 and on five timber wolves at 15 75 a total of for the animals killed of the hides were those of coyote pups and and 25 those of bobcat kittens such hides were burned the others were sold and brought 94 leaving a net cost to the stockmen stoc kmen of 06 or the average 0 5 a head