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Show NEVADA ADVOCATES ELIMINATION OF GOV. TRAPPERS Jobs for 11,000 men could be furnished without cost to any agency by abolishing government trapping and poisoning activities activit-ies as conducted by the biological survey, according to State Assemblyman As-semblyman L. C. Branson of White Pine county, who has led a four-year battle to end such work in Nevada, and whose referendum referen-dum won a majority of votes at the last state election, but was lost later on a technical decision by the state attorney's office. Branson would substitute bounties for salaried trappers, and would pay $4 or $5 per coyote or bobcat, double that sum for females. fe-males. This would compare with his figures to show a cost of $28.55 per animal in this state under federal trapping, and $67.07 per animal the past winter. He claims that biological survey work to date has cost $20,000,000 in the 11 states concerned, without real progress being made in exterminating predators. Estimating 1000 men who could be gainfully employed in each state without government trapping, Branson would require them to turn in the complete hide with all feet, instead of scalps alone, as at present required, and then would have the government govern-ment sell the skins. In times of high prices the trappers would merely sell the skins instead of claiming the bounty. Only "white collar" men would lose their jobs, the assemblyman assembly-man claims, as present trappers would go on working and would earn more under the bounty plan than at present, while other trappers then 'would be able to enter the field also," as well as ranchers and others who might augment their incomes by snaring sheep-killers. |