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Show UBBITS ID POSSUMS IN UTAH Asked todav if he could suggest my ni w nays to make money, or to lower the high cost of living. Postmaster llliam v. Browning laughingly commented com-mented on a plan alleged to be under consideration by Mayor Abbot R. Hey- wood to provide the market with jack, rabbits, which are now fat and "sassy" and would sell at a reasonable price. "It might be profitable also to raise coyotes for the hides and bounties," said Mr Browning. 'Ogden old-timcra I remember when tho coyote bounty ' business was largely developed. The pelts and scalps came In boxes and 'barrels, loads of them, and large was the aggregate bouuty." Writing to an Ogden friend, Allen R. risbback of Gallatin. Tenn., asks "Whj should Utah be a 'possumless country' We are eating em this win. ter instead of hog meat and they are fat and fine S'poso 1 send vou half a dozen live pairs for breeding ! purposes?" The good Samaritan went on to say the 'possums would multiply fifteen times every year, that they forage for themselves and easily are raised. Their hides also are salable, ho said, and canned 'possum, in souse form, ia 'truly delicious, better than the finest beef or pork." Reverting to Mayor Hey wood's jack, rsbbit scheme, another idea purveyor uaid "Catchiup thorn would be pome task, but we might hire tenderfoot Easterners for this work Some of them can run llko the deer One of them, 1 remember, was hired by a sheep man. He was assigned to corral cor-ral a bunch of lambs. 'Way lato thai evening he came In all tired out. 'Them's the fattest lambs I ever seen,' he said, 'but 1 caught seven of 'om.' "The ranchman went out to Inspect the lambs. He was astonished to behold seven mule-earod jackrabbits which the new hand had run down i and corraled. "If catchers like the fellow could be found, the mayor's plan -.uigm be made a success " |