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Show oo BEAR GISfPEK FROM THIS STATE Forty-nine bear were killed in Utahj during the past year, according to Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game comm'soioner. Two were grizzlies griz-zlies and the other black and brown bear. Nineteen were killed in Cache county and the rest in Sevier and Carbon counties. Commissioner Cham ' bers deplores the killing of bear in the mountains of the state Concern Ing them, he said yesterday: "Neither the brown nor the black bear is a serious menace to range stock The nimrod vho prides himself him-self on having killed one of them need not boast. Both of the species are harmless to a remarkable extent A man meeting one in the wilds is in about as much danger as if he had happened upon a calf Continued slaughter of them is sure to leave the state devastated of two of its most interesting, least harmful, species spe-cies of wild creatures The same cannot be said of the grizzly, but he is pretty well able to take care of himself, as is evidenced by tbe few that are killed Of course, there are fewer grizzlies than black and brown bear, but also they are wary game and hard to kill when successfully stalked. "State protection for brown and black bear would be a good thing so long as they are not more of a menace men-ace than at present, for they are sure to become extinct under present conditions. con-ditions. The modern high-power rifle in the hands of a hunter constitutes an unfair advantage when used against these noncombative denizens of the wilds " |