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Show Centennial Welcome Edition Of The Utah "FOR A OR DAY gffll (STORED TO A LIFETIME, DEFEATED, BRIGHAM EFFECTIVENESS Tourists Attracted Each Year, All The Time Interesting And Well Spent Preceding Page Build Nesting Islands To provide more aiea for sick bird tumtv to give each giound birds, artificial nesting a duck If ndiudual Treatment nesting islands, GOO feet long found was suffering or sttan water forc- and 123 feet wide, have be'en from lead poisoning, a bulb built. The success of the con with ed into H1- stomach of struction of these islands, an and hose washed out dozens idea which originated on this the that lead shotgun pellets is evinced by the fact refuge, its down in bird had gulped that 493 nests were counted on search for food in areas where one island the second season A dose of shooting is permitted The first season, 169 birds nest gradutall a glass medicine from cures ed there, refuge re'eords reveal ate, instead of a spoon, stomaToday the refuge is a comwith irouoles a pelican A plete success, the duck sickness worms or ch parnsius is under control, the duck pop vieak solution of Epsom salts, ulation of the great swamp is administered with the Lose and rapidly growing and the time bulb free-- - a ducks system of duck is not far distant when the the poise r.s of "Western will again be restored o- - botulism After the marshes sickness to their former condition as s, the patients regaine- found 100 peatment years ago by Jim d their eo'ih and strength in Bridger nt pond until a coma Duck banding at the refuge thev were sufficiently recovered has proved the importance of to take wing again the marsh area to migratory waterfowl breed bird life Over a period of seven This Sc.re area which several years, 1,400 returns were receiv and leeu lrj tears ago was mostly a dtymud ed from a total ef 9,000 birds of any kind of life, banded Returns came from On flat devo-c- ! with a solid tral America on tie south and today is uveied mat of r cu tit ic growth Sego the Arctic on th north The value of the lefuge in in natural pond weed and othei bird life can best be duck foot'- - are found over laige creasing areas A uxunant growth oP judged by the lecord of the tules ana In 192S, one coveis thou-sard- s whistling swans of acres Vegetation is thousand five hundred of these buds wintered on the refuge spreading over all of the marsh A visitor to the refuge today In 1933 the number meteased to may see vast flocks of ducks, 6,000, and in the fall of 1931, there were 13,000 In the fall of geese swdn- - and pelicans feed broad expanse of 1933 it was estimated that 20, mg on the OOO swans visited the water ar around the tules s refuge on stilts ibises, snipe, sand their return from nesting vv thin pipers pha aropes, herons, gulls the Arctic circle and marv other water birds Attracts Many Tcunsts wade alorc the shoreline of the For a number of years past, d ke the refuge has attracted thou Refuge officials have counted sands of tourists and bird lovers la4 species of birds on the reffrom all parts oi the nation uge EigHv seven of this numbA number of commercial as er are classed as strictly water well as government moving pic varieties j; you make a trip to ture films have been m ido on the refuge tciday you may see the refuge and shown through t (i at ieaspecie's of birds who out the world remain rr the refuge 'hiough-ou- t As a hunting grounds, the the cummer refuge is popular, peihaps the Continued From ru-h- es Aco-eet- er CITY AND BOX ELDER COUNTY Brigham Gty YOU!" WELCOME populat the west,' the government has allowed REFOgT hunting the five units Many Find most for News - Journal, Box-Eld- place in on two of of the refuge each year 13 allace well known Been, film star, has built a small log hunung lodge near the entrance to the aiea, o'd spends a min imum ol seven a weeks heue each hunting season, shooting on the refuge marshes daily Hunting Under Regulation Superintendent of the Be'ar River Mipiatoiy Bird reluge is Vantv Wilson Aided by a staff of experts, he administers the affans of the maishes under his contiol to the complete satnfac tion of the biological survey and sportsmen of this area alike All hunteis are rc'quned 1o legister, to have their guns cheeked and to abide by govern ment regulations when bunting on the great marshes Boats driven by outboaid motors are almost a necessity to enjoy all of the advantages for shooting the open units of the area of fereel, but neatly every resident of Box Elder county owns ot has access to a boat and motor suit able for this tvpe of hunting, and most of them are willing to make their equipment avail able to visitors to this aiea who wish to tiv the woilds fun st waterfowl shooting Af ter tin hunt is ovc-i- , hunters are required to cheek out, and then birds ate counted and in spec ted to prevent law viola lions and to enatile the1 u'fegc stafl to keep an e ae t re cold of the numbti of buds ol cacti spec les taken each season A fine haul surlaced toad leads diicctly west from Brig ham City to the ietuge' Visitors to I tah and Biigham City this summer will find at the lefuge, even more s() than the na tional pans and othei govern ment owned attractions, that they are welcomed as part own ets and interested panics in this federal reservation Visitors Welcome Wilson anil his staft alwcvs 1 ? lo be real 'ion pi el but leal, alive and. in in-- - mutve the llreweste's Egret. Ms environment nevertheless only one of some 200 different species of migratory biids that inhabit the 61.000-acrrefuge. are willing and eager to do all their species and telling so e they can do help the visitor see thing of their chara teiistics and all there is to see at the refuge, habits When this is impjMbie to give interesting information the staff will always be glad legarchng the refuge and its to give dnediotis as to inter peculation of buds, even to at estmg drive's that nt he coo rompanv toms ovei the refuge over the retuge d kes and w 'at pointing out the birds, naming to be looking toi 1 e -t FIRST AND LAST CHANCE! 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