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Show DEER HERDS SHOW INCREASE OVER '46 Milford Valley's deer herds, in the Mineral Mountains, scampered out of the way of horsemen this week as state game oUCicials and Milford sportsmen engaged in the annual deer count. Gordon Murdock, Vance Fisher, Claude Horton, Frank Thompson, Hal Fisher, and Roldo Turner, accompanied ac-companied by Thel Riley, Beaver game warden; Hammer Christiansen Christian-sen of the Forest Service, and Mr. Bennett, of the Division of Grazing, made the horseback ride into the rough country from Cedar Cove to Salt Cove, and tallied 346 nimble-footed nimble-footed buckskins and does, quite a few more than were counted last year. On Thursday the area between Pinnacle Pass and Battle Mountain was checked by the officials. Some evidence of poaching was found, according to the Milford sportsmen. |