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Show I TO STOCK THE 5TITE WITH BOB WHITE Plans are being mndo by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, for the purchase of from 50 to 100 pairs of Bob White quail for the game reserves of the state. If It is found that this species of quail Is adapted to the country more will be purchased. They will be placed In Juab and other counties In the central part of tho state, which are now practically prac-tically barren of quail and where the country affords excellent feeding grounds for these birds. An effort was made many years ago to stock the ranges of Utah with Bob AVhite quail, but they gradually disappeared dis-appeared until none can be found In the state. If the first lot of birds show a substantial increase more will be purchased next year. The birds are purchased from eastern game farms. Quail raise on nn average of ton young a season, and at this rate it would not be many years before there were thousands of these birds in the state. They will be protected the year round until thev are firmly established I in the state. Commissioner Chambers has returned return-ed from Mount Nebo, where he went Tucsdav with a carload of elk brought to this "state last Monday from Jackson Jack-son Hole, Wyo. The car taken to the Mount Nebo forest pasture at Sallna contained twenty-three animals, which makes forty-eight elk now In the Mount Nebo pasture. Another car containing eleven elk was'taken to Sa-lina Sa-lina and placed in a pasture with fifty-five fifty-five other elk which have been in the state's charge for more than a year. A third car with eleven animals was sent to Bingham, but two of these died before reaching their destination from injuries received In being transported over the Teton pass to Victor, Idaho, where they were loaded on cars for shipment to this state. The herds already In the state will show an Increase of 50 per cent this year and will number close to 200 when they are turned loose in the Fish Lake and Mount Xebo national forests for-ests about July 10. |