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Show Greatest Number of Hunters "Checked" In Dixie's History Largest Group Check Out of St. George Side of Game Preserve; 55 Percent Get Buck; Game Season Ends Nearly 3,200 hunters checked in and out of the Dixie Game preserve in the recent deer hunting hunt-ing season. This was an increase of approximately 200 of last year. Of this number 1,903 checked out with their deer. Out of the 3,200 hunters, 2,172 hunted on the St. George side of the preserve pre-serve while 1,022 were registered by the Cedar City game association. associa-tion. Of the 1,903 hunters who reported re-ported their take, 1,4 9 6 came through the St. George Fish nd Game association checking stations sta-tions while 704 checked out of the Cedar Association stations. The percentage of those who got their deer, according to Bryan Lund, president of the local association was slightly higher this year. In the neighborhood of 58 percent reported this year while 5 5 percent per-cent were lucky in 1935. The deer were slighty small er although al-though they were fatter than has been the case for a number of years. .Game Season Ends Big game hunting in the National Na-tional Forests of the Intermoun-tion Intermoun-tion Region came to a close for 1936 with the passing of November. Novem-ber. Idaho started the season off on September 5 with a special 10-day season for 150 antelope on the Lemhi Forest; Wyoming finished it when its hunters hung up their rifles on the evening of November 30. During the 3-month 3-month period, September to November, Nov-ember, the sportsmen, through regular or special hunting seasons, sea-sons, for limited numbers, have been permitted to go afield in search of deer, elk, moose, antelope, ante-lope, bighorn sheep and mountain moun-tain goat. Idaho provided hunting hunt-ing for the greatest variety of big game species deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, and antelope. ante-lope. Wyoming was second with deer, elk moose and 'antelope listed. list-ed. Utah had deer and elk hunting, hunt-ing, and Nevada offered only deer 'as a legal take. In 1935, over 4S.000 nimrods hunted big game within the National Na-tional Forests of this Region and preliminary reports from the forests for-ests indicate that this year the number Will well exceed the 50,-000 50,-000 mark. The extremely dry and balmy weather that prevailed prevail-ed almost the entire period has made hunting difficult. There is but little snow in the mountain? 'auc! no general drifts to the winter win-ter ranges have yet been necessary. neces-sary. Game animals are still largely scattered throughout the high country. Hunters Successful In spite of the favorable conditions condi-tions for the game, hunts have been very successful. Utah's buck deer hunt was especialy good, many districts reporting over a 60 percent kill. The highest high-est take, however, was the 9S percent reported from the Sawtooth Saw-tooth Forest in Idaho where 150 permits were issued to take deer from the Soldier Mountain game preserve. One hunter in the Salmon River country bagged an albino deer, which was pure white and was said to have had pink eyes and pinkish hoofs. All game animals were in fine condition and a number of large specimens were brought into the checking stations and weighed. The largest was an even 300 pounder, ts nearest competitor weighed 290 pounds. The greatest number of points reported for a deer was 9 on one side and 10 on the other, brow tines not inluded. In this district the largest take was reported by Sheriff Antone Prince. His party of seven all got their deer with one weighing in at 300, two at 265. 2 af 250 one at 175 and one 150 pounds.. |