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Show ELK ARE TURNED LOOSE Last Sunday was a big day for the people of Orangeville and Castledale, joined by a few from other towns, who took advantage of the beautiful weather and made the trip to the Peacock Pea-cock ranch above Orangeville where the 23 head of elk secured by the County last winter have been corraled preparatory prepara-tory to being turned loose upon East Mountain. F. W. Chambers, state fish and game warden, HenryThompson, district ward-e ward-e i and Wellington Seely, county warden were present and superintended the driving of the animals up Cottonwood creek fork, ably assisted by a large number of horsemen and women. The elk were in excellent shape being fat and in general good shape. The fast gait set by some of the animals in taking to some of the steepest hills in the vicinity soon made them slack up and they were o;ily taken a couple of miles up the fork but have since been driven on up. They appeared to be quite tame eonsidering the fright displayed dis-played when they were brought in last winter. It is rather a striking coincidence that this bunch of elk from the Jackson Hole country should be placed on East mountain the last known haunt of the elk in this range of mountains. Warden Seely, it is understood, saw the last of the original elk which pastured pas-tured on the nearby mountains in considerable con-siderable numbers before their final di-appearance. |