Ephraim Enterprise | 1958-02-14 | Page 4 | Hunters Take Huge Mtn. Lion

o Hunters Take II Huge Lion From Fro The ManU Manti Messenger There is a lot of lion in a pound package of lion according to Duncan Buchanan Perry Eliason Eliason Eliason E- E liason and their party of hunters who bagged a male lion weighing that last Sunday He was was' taken North of Ephraim Canyon The men began their hunt on January 2 and had seen the large lion once in the month they were hunting They finally tracked the lion down through heavy wet about 1030 Sunday night They returned Monday morning to put him in a cage and bring on a sleigh behind the Jeep to town The lion pounds l larger than any previously taken by the hunters The deer are well rid of this wild yellow beast who had attacked many deer killed them and left them Prior to capturing the lion the hunters h had d taken three young lions a week ago They averaged 6 to 8 pounds apiece and were caught by simply throwing a coat coat dver dyer them as s they lay sleeping In the hunting party were Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don P Pane me of Bountiful Lavere Kidman of pf Salt Lake City and Morlin Buchanan Perry n a and n d Duncan all of ot I 1 Manti Mariti