Show disappearing ANIMALS with each year the wild animals in the th a valleys and hills bills of the rocky mountains are growing low leu in number utah is no exception exoe p tion to this th in rule and it is now but a question of a few years yean when the hunter and sportsman will find in our mountains no means of ratifying gratifying his desire in seeking game either among the feath ored ered tribe or the denizens ot of forest and stream of associations for the protection of game and the operations of law to aid in that object may d defer f r this result but unless a radical change takes place the delay will be only for a short time it is interesting yet to a considerable extent lamentable to note this diminution in the animal creat creation on I 1 in our own locality and in other parts of the earth owing to he continual warfare made by man on the birds of the air the beasts of the he fielland fiel dand the creatures that inhabit rivers riven lakes jakes and seas the fiercest animal now stands no chalao against the hunter booter who to is pro aided videu with improved firearms fir earme and A duel dual even with ane lion the tiger or the elephant is hardly more than butchery the hunter generally pro pre arranges the oo 00 editions conditions of the contest and is in quite sure to give himself heavy odds edds under these attacks of wait matt some times justifiable but more frequently frequent li otherwise the extinction of the most interesting races of animals except such as are systematically domestic bated and preserved for the benefit of mar mac to is constantly proceeding proe at times slowly and at others swiftly but always surely many species have ceased already to be in the flesh and are now known only by their skeletons in museums in a few years the existence of others will be but a memory the asiatic mammoth the habitat of which once extended also over europe has disappeared since the his big 1 tory lory of man began on the eastern vonti continent nent and the mastodon of the western hemisphere Is comme oom memora mors ed as a ali living vinK creature the traditions of some of the indian tribes an J the record we have of ancient america the elephant a still existing congener of the mastodon mae todon and the mammoth is rapidly diminishing in numbers and contracting its range forty years ago sir samuel baker stated that it was essy easy to bag a score of these noble animals in a single day in the island ol of ceylon where now they have almost ceased to exien and even in india the wild elep elephants hanti is becoming a variety the iha object lesion in africa in the same period to IB still more eloquent the animal almal is practically extinct nearly as far south as the great nyanza region and for five hundred miles from the english and dutch south african vo colonies lonies the elop elephant haut is rare jy met with ivory hunters bave devastated these regions aal that ahat irom from hii albar for at least five bundred undred jD miles west from lake tanganyika ga nyika while in the new and a few years ago rich ivory field at the mouth of the congo the precious tusks are becoming more difficult to secure every year it is estimated that it taken a hundred thousand elephants annually to supply the worlds demand lor or ivo at the rate affairs are now going tile lue present natural source of cupply appl will be almost gone in another ohalf century with each decade the lion hop the camelopard ame gAme lopard and the zebra which once warmed over the whole continent ot of africa are becoming more limited in numbers for thousands of years ears heir chase by the negro race failed to destroy them tut cut in the last half century the civilization of the white man lias bas done terrible work to this end in north america the buffalo or ibison bison which was so plentiful on the plains plaiD when ewhen etab s pioneers wended bended their way to this land has almost entirely disappeared A century age anu ano ven even within half bull that time there were countless herds from the great lakes to north northern mexico the indian had bad hunted bunted them for centuries to satisfy bis natural wants but it took the skin hunting ug and the bloodthirstiness of the white man of the present century to effect the great destruction here and there in the united states a low lew are net abnot with and in british america the depleted herds are being behig rapidly bunted to death the european Euro peat bison to is undergoing a lise process of extermination which is III now DOW almost vom complete five ce centuries ago it existed in great numbers in the forests forest of montral europe and was looked on as royal game came now it is found in a native state only in the wildest regions of the one herd in lithuania lives by imperial protection ina in a great croat preserve just as am a herd of british wild cattle are now preserved in chil ling lingnam liam p rk the beaver which at one time was plentiful over all north americo america is low cow found in scattered colonies in the lake superior Hu perlor region and in the tales states of the pacific coast it is exterminated already in british Ada america erica by the hudson bay company trappers mud and hunters bunters beaver fur in the required require a quantities could no longer be furnished to the worlds market marke tp so the commer ial aai demand has baa fallen oft materially and this way may give the animal an opportunity port unity to partially replenish its numbers num bere the peccary and the bear and other animals hu bunted abed for ski ekin sare likewise growing rare creatures of the sea are disappearing in similar manner at the time when utah was settled the california sea elephant the largest ot of the seals measuring in some comes cases twenty five feet in length was exceedingly abundant on the pacific coast it was mercilessly merol lessly pursued tor for its ais oil a single specimen sometimes yielding two hundred gallons the animal has grown eo scarce that it is now rarely seen A similar fate has ban befallen both atlantic mud and pacific pad oo 00 walruses walrus ee the arctic sea cow has uld appeared in the last bul dred years and the seal is last following the same road thus the work goes on causing one to wonder whether the time is not comparatively close at hand band when only domesticated animals and wild ones that are kept in menageries will exist on the earth |