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Show POISON BEST IN KILLING COYOTES Predatory animals, the destruction they cause to livestock, their habits of life and methods used for their extermination ex-termination was the subject of on address ad-dress i eorge II Holman of ths .biological .bio-logical survey, in charge of predatory animal control In the Utah district 'with headquarters ot Salt Lake, bo-, bo-, fore forest Service officials anil forest rangers detailed to ogden in connection connec-tion with sign shop work at ths forest ervios building last night. ft S B, Locke, forest examiner presided pre-sided and introduced Mr, Holman POISONING POI N i in Sfl In the course of hln remarks Mr. Holman reviewed The work that had been done In Utah and 'ho northern portion Of Arizona by the biological survey since tho work of exterminating extermina-ting predutory animals began In 1'JlC. He said that during that time approximately approx-imately 80,000 predatory animals had been killed, three-fourths of Which number had been coyotes and that the remaining portion consisted of mountain moun-tain lions, bob-cats and wolves. It was estimated conservatively, he said, that the work had saved to thai stockmen of the Mute and on the Arizona Ariz-ona strip along the I'tah side Of the I Grand t'anyon of the Colorado approximately approx-imately $3,000,000. The cost to the government and livestock men. he said, was approximated- $4 per head 1 for 1 ai h predatory animal killed. Discussing the methods used, ho said that all Indications pointed to the disuse of trapping os a means of extermination ex-termination and t0 the growing use of poisoning on a large scale and he pointed out that poison was spread on 1 he winter ranges in summer and on the summer ranges In winter when tho stock was absent. sunn BXAGGFJR ITED Relative to S recent stor In a widely wide-ly elrcueted weekly megSJSlnS Mr. Holman Hol-man said that the number of Hons killed kill-ed on the Kalbab by such hunters as I'ncle Inn (iwens had been greatly exaggerated ex-aggerated as had the reported destruction destruc-tion bv the lions He also pointed out that the lions on the Kalbab were at present practically Wiped out and ho supported his asset lion by staling that 8. K. Dunham, government trapper 1 engaged in killing predatory animals, 1 had worked along the rim of the Brand Canyon of tin- Colorado and In the Kalbab forest from March 1 to Icc. 15 without coming in contact with or even seeing a single track of n mountain lion, according to his report. re-port. He also pointed out that V. Mansfield Mans-field formerly manager or the lir.md Sanyon Cattle company, reported that ibis year his riders had reported seeing see-ing only cne track of a mountain lion n that section. |