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Show ELK W CI WAY TO CATTLE IIS TRE TETON COUNTRY , Forester Homer E. Fenn, head o.' the grazing department of the Ogden : icrest district, accompanied by Rob ert E. Miller, supervisor of the Jackson Jack-son Hole forest, has gone to Chey-I Chey-I enne, to confer with the goernor of Wyoming respecting the question of ' retaining the Teton preserve for elk, or throwing it open for the cattle industry. A large tract of forest country is being utilized for the maintenance of the only elk in the nation and it is said that both government and Wyoming Wyo-ming officials, as well as the people of the country, hesitate to entertain the idea of opening the district as common grazing territory as It Is known that in the course of only a short time cattle would drive the elk from the ranges and ultimately exterminate ex-terminate them. On tho other hand, it Is maintained, ranges for cattle are becoming so scarce and the cattle industry is of such great importance, that It Is wrong to longer protect the elk In an exclusive territory. Grangers say that thousands of head of cattle can easi-1 easi-1 be maintained on the Teton preserve pre-serve for elk, which would aid materially mate-rially In furnishing a meat supply for the country. Elk are not much used for food aud they are not nearly as prolific as cattle The foresters will discuss the question ques-tion with the governor and other officers, of-ficers, with a view to arriving at some conclusion. Mr Miller is a resident resi-dent of the Teton country and he Is more familiar with the elk situation, and with the general grazing conditions condi-tions of that country', than any other man in the service |