| Show BOUNT ON ABOUT PREDATORY JL DALS More than unit halt a a. million to to lie be exact animals animals of oC a predatory preda tory or destructive nature were killed kill kill- killed ed ed ad in Utah by bounty hunters hunter dining din dur ing lug the 12 months e ending ding March 20 1918 On these those the livestock men through the bounty tax and the hc state as a whole paid a total of If 63 6 These are the results arrived at by byMark byMark byMark Mark Tuttle deputy in the office of or the thes state ate auditor who has been compiling com piling a showing the humbel hum num number ber bel of or animals killed and he lie amount of bounty paid laia p In the various counties counties coun coun- ties for tor the year ending M March 20 last This statement will be embodied embodied embodied em em- bodied in hi the biennial report of Joseph state auditor The table shows that Millard has been the paradise of bounty hunters during the year with a total paid of ot Wayne Vayne county was next with 7 paid out Iron county paid out DilL Rich Beaver and Boxelder Counties in which the amount ranged between 2000 and were Juab San Juan Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San- San pete Summit Uintah and Washing Washing- ton Counties Counties- which paid between 1000 and 2000 in bounties were Carbon Duchesne Emery Garfield Grand Kane Sevier Tooele and I Wasatch Other counties were below below below be be- low low 1000 with Davis lowest at and Salt Lake next at SD the Of-the Of the total of 70 bears killed in Itt inthe he the state 22 were slain in Utah county 11 each in Sanpete and Uintah counties 7 in Summit 5 in 5 in Sevier 4 in Vas Wasatch 2 in anu me one each in hr Cache Carbon Davis Emery Grand Morgan R ch and Weber Garfield county countr leads in the number number number num num- ber of mountain lions killed with 10 while 8 of the wily brutes were killed in Grand and Kane counties respectively and 5 each in Cache and Washington counties Wildcat and lynx are much more plentiful l every county In the state contributing some same the numbers ranging from froth 4 each in Weber Weber and and Davis counties to in Beaver Bea er in Uintah and in San Juan In Salt Lake Lak county bounty bounty- was paid on 18 of or these felines Millard begins to take the tle lead Inthe in inthe inthe the coyote column bounty having been een paid on oil 1639 The total in Iron Iran county was 1132 while in Davis only 50 and in Salt Lake county county county coun coun- ty only G 64 4 such animals were presented presented presented pre pre- pre pre- for bounty payments The grey wolf woH is scarcer 17 o of these were slain by bounty hunters in Rich county and 1 16 G in ilL Grand county count and 13 in Wayne Vayne Iron county shows bounties paid on Jack ra rabbits bIts and gophers All other counties were under under under un un- un- un der with Carbon lowest with I only two bounty payments cla claimed med there were 13 in Davis county 65 55 in Emery 83 in Grand and in Salt Lake county In some counties no bounties were claimed on prairie dogs or r ground sq squirrels A campaign against them in Millard brought in I. I animals for bounty payments while in Rich county payments were made on animals Sanpete is next with then follow Summit with Tooele with Juab Jua with Boxelder with and Beaver with All other counties were under no claims being presented in Salt Lake and some other coun counties I The rhe total number of ot animals killed kill kill- ed d for iti unties in Millard I county was 1 2200 i U fe C I l I Irr rr rr 1 l Si h C Coming m l tol ne- ne With a afine fine line Summer Miti-Summer hats hats From June lit 1st to Alide Josei Heber I Ij h T so j c II b c nr cr i i H ft |
