Box Elder News Journal | 1912-02-15 | Page 3 | Mountain Goat a Nuisance

MOUNTAIN GOAT A NUISANCE annoy alaskan miners by getting into their tunnels and eating their location stakes miners in mineral gulch alaska are having considerable trouble with mountain goats during stormy weather tile goats crowd into the tunnels that are being driven on the claims well up on oil the mountains and it la Is only by throwing dynamite cartridge luto into the tunnels in the morning that they cau can be driven out and the contractors get in to go to work it is also stated that they are likely to be the causa of 0 cId considerable erble litigation among mine owners next year as they have hae destroyed a number 0 of lo 10 cattia by eating them owin owins to the rac fac that alder and ani willow comprise the only wood la in the gulch nearly all ail the location stakes aro are of these woods which in the absence or of other food the goats attack eagerly A great many of the be animals ha hiie e lieen been killed by the men luen ia bork lu the gulch but the number seems to in crease rather than diminish