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Show Thousands Of Acres Of Water Covered By Wildfowl a boat blind and used a following excerpt taken from from double-barre- l is shotgun and brass signifireport Standsbuxys shells loaded with black powcant: der. During one ten-daperiod "Monday, October 22, 1349 day, The Salt Lake, which lay about he averaged 111 ducks amorna half mile to the eastward, was taking out 150 shells each covered by lmense flocks of ing. wild geese and ducks, among e record for duck The which many swans were seen, slaughter in this area, accordbeing distinguished by their ing to Kaiser, was held by V. F . size and the whiteness of their Davis, a local market hunter, plumage. I have seen large who, in 1899 with a pump gun flocks of these birds before in and paper shells, killed 335 various parts of the country, ducks in one day. This was and especially on the Potomac, flock shooting, and Davis would but never did I behold anything not shoot unless he could kill Uke the immense numbers here four or five duck with each Thoutogether. congregated shot sands of acres, as far as the eye Good Prices could reach, seemed literally Brought were picked by ducks The covered with them, presenting a women and during the girls scene of busy animated cheernight ,and the next morning fulness, in most gracious con- were shipped in ice to Kansas trast with the dreary, silent solButte, Denver, Chicago and itude by which we were imme- City, The market San Francisco. diately surrounded." hunters received $1.10 a dozen Market Hunters Come for teals and $1.50 a dozen for Sixty-fivyears ago public mallards. Dressed geese brought demand fo rthe succulent wild ten cents a pound on the Chiduck brought many market cago market hunters to the Bear river marsh e market huntAnother area. There are still a few men er, and founder of the - first living who can give an accu- duck club on the Bear river, was rate and interesting account of the late James Knudson. Knud-sotheir market hunting activities has related that he and in the late nineties. others hunted for the Eastern The late Rudolph Kaiser, Sr., markets from 1895 to 1905. They earlv-da- y market hunter, re- used double-barrelleguns and called that 65 years ago, when loaded their brass shells each a boy of 13, he went into the night for the next days hunt 'Bear river mahshes with an old In one season three men used Thousands of Acres of Ducks muzzle-loade- r to kill ducks for 21 kegs of black powder, each In 1849, the United States the Chicago markets. Kaiser weighing 25 pounds. Five sacks government sent Captain How- said that in 1887 he killed in of shot, each weighing 25 ard Standsbury of the topogra- one season, 1,880 ducks, and pounds, were used with ea'ch phical engineers corps to ex- that his record for one days keg of powder. Knudson only plore the Salt Lake valley. The shoot was 196 ducks. He shot a year before his death told Continued from Preceding Page eager to reach what he thought was the Pacific ocean, A few miles from the lake, he entered an area of swamps formed by the rich silt deposited by the river. In these swamps his astonished eyes saw millions of ducks, geese and waterfowl of all descriptions. Great flocks of ducks arose before his boat, obscuring the sun, and the roar of their wings was deafening. Hours later he reached the lake, tasted it, found It salty and returned with the report that he had discovered an arm of the Pacific. Captain John C. Fremont, as the pathfinder, came to the shores of the Great Salt Lake in the autumn of 1843. Fremont launched his rubber boat on the lake and explored the Bear river marshes. In his writing he mentions that he loitered most of a day shooting ducks and geese in the marsh, which was abundant with waterfowl. Brigham Young led his band of Mormon ' pioneers into the valley of the Great Balt Lake July- 24, 1847. Soon after' arriving, Young sent a party of men north to- - explore the valley. They reported that millions of ducks and geese could be found in the great swamps at the mouth of the Bear river. Nerve Center Of Refuge all-tim- ' e Administration building on Bear River Refuge. Vanez T. Wilson, refuge manager, is walking toward the pickup in the foreground which is towing an air thrust boat which is used on shallow water marshes Where outboard motors would be of little value due to the mud and emergent vegetation. (U. S. Wildlife PhotoV old-tim- - n this writer that he still had a callous on his Jaw, caused by his gun kicking against his market face. In the biggest hunting season that he remembers, his party of three killed 5,600 ducks. for a days The equipment hunt included a shovel to set d out mud decoys, a dinner pail, a gun and- 175 home-loadeshells. The hunting season opened on September 1 and lasted until April L Indians Gathered Eggs In the late nineties Indians went to the marshes area in (Continued on Following Page) d - STRUCTURES FOR HOMES FOR FARMS-FO- R FOR SAFER HIGHWAY- S-' CONCRETE ACROSS THE NATION IS VOUR BEST BllV! OEISTEUCTHOSI (SoKllPJAMTf 4 A YOUR BUSINESS THAT GROWN WITH HAS AND HELPED THE s t & ' ' -- T v - , CONCRETE HEADQUARTERS READY-MI- X s. t - INTERMOUNTAIN "'as , L. V v !s, r ' K'y 'S ? . $... V'v:- . V; Yfft f '4 ' v -- "52L JT (xv ' VI s HEADQUARTERS OF FIFE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY WEST |