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Show PORTION OF DIXIE GAME PRESERVE ELIMINATED At a meeting of the state game refuge re-fuge committee held in Salt Lake City Sept. 28, it was decided to eliminate about 246,000 acres in the Dixie State Game Preserve in Washington and Iron counties, retaining about 141,000 acres in the preserve. Some 14.000 acres at the south end of the preserve were added to it by action of the committee com-mittee in order to have the lines conform con-form to the Forest boundary. The 246.000 acres eliminated are checkered with farms, and ranchers have complained of their crops being more or less damaged by deer. By opening up this country to hunting, damage to crops should be lessened and complaints fewer. The 27.000 acre tract which is retained re-tained is sufficiently large, it is believed, be-lieved, to meet the demands of a practicable prac-ticable game preserve. It varies in elevation from 4.000 to 10.000 feet. The topography and vegetative cover are ideal for deer and afford excellent spring, fall, summer and winter grazing graz-ing grounds; also allows for a drift to the north and west. This area is the most logical part of the preserve to retain, re-tain, not only because of its adaptability, adaptabil-ity, but because of its being more free from ranches. The north boundary' line as drawn is the most logical obtainable ob-tainable through a mountainous country. coun-try. It follows the wagon road from the town of Central to Pine Valley, thence northeast up a small stream to the Newcastle reservoir; thence along road into and up Mill Canyon; thence along Forest Service trail east to Forest For-est boundary near New Harmony. It will be "conspicuously posted by signs before the deer season ojxns on October Oct-ober 20, |
