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Show GAME PRESERVE MAY BE CREATED ON LAND ADJOINING ZION PARK -, Provided . satisfactory arrangements arrange-ments can be made with owners of possibly 2Q00 acres of private land near tl)e mouth of Zion canyon, Newell Ne-well B. Cook, state fish and. game commissioner, is planning the establishment es-tablishment of an additional Utah game, preserve there. It would be fQr the purpose of protecting a small band of deer that has made its habitat in the picturesque recess cf-Kion Ntrttonal 'Park. " i The matter will come before the .--ft.? n-1? statei ..gajrie refuge committee, which has the authority to create the preserve pre-serve by proclaimation. Commissioner Cook announced his plasik '.after 'conferring with D. H. Madseu; formerly commissioner and now. ' charge of wild life with the natioaar-park service. .- Deer in the park, accustomed to meet human beings without harm to themselves, t'r have . become pretty throughly'.-jlomesticated, -,it is explained. ex-plained. TJiere -are possibly . 200 in the ba'hd. at present. In the winter occasionally- thev come down the riv- V4 -er and: bey.otul. the park boundaries,: where in seasqn they are subject to ; shooting. j "There is no sport in shooting them," Mr. Cook said. "They are so tame it is. merely, butchery. If they; are protected- from hunters at such time. the-' may soon become a' real attraVtion in the park." ' .. ... i |