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Show MANY DEAD DUCKS AND 1VIORE DYING Thousands of Birds Cover the Surface of Bear River Bay and River Local Hunters State That Disease Continues to Destroy All Kinds of Birds. According to the statement of li. F. Livingston ff this city, the duck sit-nation sit-nation in the stale Is more serious now than it has been this year. Mr. Livingston, L. H Beciaft and l'ri'd Sanborn visited the Promontory duck grounds Snndov. In passing along the Hear River bay and the river riv-er eastward from the lake In a launch, they encountered thousands of dead ducks. Some had been dead a month or more, others only a few days, Home a few hours and still others were warm. "I never saw anything like it." said Mr. Livingston this morning, "and I hope l shall never see such a sight again. If there was one dead duck along fho bay and river there were lO.Onn, and there are many dying ev ery minute, t saw them die on the water, au.l fall dead from a flock fixing over the water. Tbey were all fat and, If not afllktcd with tlx- disease, dis-ease, would be considered fine eating. eat-ing. .They all seem to have lost control con-trol of their limbs and In many instances in-stances they cannot fly "We found every kind of duck In the list of dead, and In the heap of dead birds were found seagulls, snipes and tlsh duekis. As we went up the river, riv-er, the dead birds Inrreased in number. num-ber. Agent Carroll at Promontory Point told us that his chickens died from eating Ihe meat of these dead ducks." Mr. Livingston states that it would bp hazardous for people to cat wild ducks at any time this tall. |