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Show Reports Indicate Good Results InUtahElkHunt The opening of the elk season sea-son on Utah's ranges began on October 14 and yielded exceptionally excep-tionally good kills in most areas. The Cache and Uintah county hunters were lagging behind the other areas in the state, but in all sections there were plenty of elk. All but fourteen of the permits from the Salt Lake area had been filled .by Saturday night. The popularity of the elk hunt in Utah indicates that we certainly cer-tainly have inherited all the characteristics for the love of the chase from our European ancestors, ances-tors, but we have not inherited the ethics of the Europeans so far as the hunt is concerned. The hunt on Utah ranges indicates indi-cates that there was much promiscuous pro-miscuous shooting without hunters hunt-ers following up shots to see if they had killed or wounded animals. ani-mals. Already the wardens have checked more than a dozen elk on Mt. Nebo which were left to rot on the ranges. Fortunately seven of the animals were found in time to save the meat. Sportsmen who have never hunted elk are perhaps unaware of the fact that they are hard to kill. In the language of the nimrod, they will carry away more lead than any other game animal in our state. If this same type of hunt has been conducted in all other areas it is expected that 10 to 15 pet cent more elk will be killed than was authorized by the board ol big game control. |