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Show When wo read of tho stupendous number of wild animals killed since tho Utah bounty law wont Into effect we are constrained to marvel that human life has not been sacrificed to the beasts that roamed all over tho stato and especially In this county and Weber, We-ber, where the records show thoy woro thickest. Wo wonder that there is a herd of sheep left in the stato or a chicken on a ranch. Think of it ! Two thousand, flvo hundred bcar3, 2G00 mountain lions, fi.OOO wolves not coyotes; wolves with fangs, that cat a man llko a hungry boy cats a sandwich 10 000 lynx, iO.OCO wildcats, both long tailed and "bob" nnd 18,091 coyotes. Thcro arc 28 counties In Utnh. Tho apportionment of hears nnd Hons Is 53 to the county. Rut Salt Lake county coun-ty having paid 10 times as much as .luab, whero boars are supposed to bo plenty, must have had 1010 lions and bears scooting mound the country No wonder it wasn't safe to go out nights, Lions nnd boars were thicker than holdups. Applying tho samo rule of proportion propor-tion to tho wolves there must have boon 2003 of those ravenous varmints chasing cattle through the cultivated flolds and as for hob cats, dear mo; there were more hob cats than domestic. domes-tic. Coyotes woro too numerous to talk about. It's a mercy that wo were not all chewed up. |