| Show aridell tridell farmer favors county bounty plan BY C B prom from a recent issue of the ver nal express we learn leam that the i commissioners of uintah county want to know what the people who pay the bounty tax desire to have done in the matter of expenditure of the bounty fund and par ticul nily whether the present ar arrangement Is satisfactory we might state the question this way who shall we have to kill our coyotes for us u the trouble with the present Is that under it 11 the coyotes are not killed but are left alive and axe are increasing in numbers making their presence felt more ani and more as the seasons go by here heir la Is a mt list of property destroyed by coyotes during the summer of 1933 in one small area the reports of which have reached us in and are by no means complete frank huber lost sheep during the spring season mason 20 head being killed in one night prom from smaller flocks the losses were as follows follos mrs sarah E harvey 7 head in one night W D mra cornil rill and the bartletts bartletta Bart letts end their sheep together and out of a flock of there were 15 head known to have been killed by bv coyotes all in the day time and within halt a mile of 0 f the house coyotes got over net wiro wire fences and killed a number of sheep for parley it II goodrich Oo odrich three in one night ite ire was forced to corrall his sheep every night in the heart of the bettI miss velora ross rosa found a coyote chasing to sheep within bardi ards of the aridell tridell post postoffice office about 9 0 clock one morning she drove the coyote away and rescued the sheep lonski of both chickens and tur tar keys from coyotes are almost dally daily occurrences we will mention one case grant morrill lost 18 chiL kens from his coop in one night the wings and gazzard gizzards giz s were left where the birds were eaten making the evide evidence zice complete that it was waa the work of IL a coyote we ha e seen a coyote this turn aum mer come within 50 yards of our sheep while we were standing between hini and the herd and deliberately libera tely ile he down and wait for us to leave it happened when the gun was left home we have also stood on a hill and followed the meandering meanderings of a coyote by the pheasants he started into flight continued on page live TRIDE IFA ORR COUNTY BOUNTY rian MAN continued from paire ono one on numerous occasions we vv haw have found pheasants had been eaten we often hear pheasants pheni anta alarmed in the night and ve me generously give old man coode booe the credit for the we also div ltv P him credit f for 0 r d bolna 01 nit am avav by with the he last ot of the descendants of ten pairs of quail this winter minter turned looe here in 1014 1914 we call attention to the de destruct tion of game fame birds because we know it lit is a cinch that the coyotes get far more than do the hunters wh who pay tor for licenses lice rises to hunt thern them so bo here we ve have our gun gu club sports men and poultry men with a vital interest lit in this question flon in this corner of the county Is that the government trappers ought to be amputated from the county pay roll for we ae believe that when ft a trapper Is paid a salary regardless of the number of coyotes he catches the county la is buding coyotes on the stump in bygone days day when substantial bounties were A ere paid by the county several of our local citizens became expert trappers trapper and benners with sith the result that incidents such auch BS as stated in this article ere rare indeed we prefer the policy of paying bounties to local people there should be a fund created min sum klent clent to pay for all 11 II animals caught and the hides presented at the th court house realy really there Is no incentive tor for the trapper to exterminate the beasts for or should that happen hla his job Is gone anether angle ancle we would direct attention to la Is the rapidly growing tendency ter dency of the general ew err to dabble in purely local affairs we believe it 16 Is a policy tant it 14 detrimental to the general welfare our forefathers were careful to limit the activities of the general government to the ephem where it naturally belonged and it if we depart much farther from the theja plan they devised and transmitted to us ve will eventually become it if wt of peons geons without local inilla A tive alve so 60 here is a matter where 1 it will be a rood good thing to follow some rood old time american principles we can at lenat least equal untie uncle sam barn as coyote killers |
