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Show I bo beavers. The trees which were carried In'o the streajn bud severul bushels of fine apples upon them. A beaver fence Is now being built. BOX ELDER ORCHARD RAIDED BY BEAVERS It is Against the Law to Kill the Ani- I mats, However. There Is a very strict law In Utah figalust the killing of beavers and that is the only re.ion there are not some fine new beaver skins stretched on the clothesline in the back yard of John Germer, an orchardist of Dew-eyvllle. Dew-eyvllle. Box Elder county. Mr. Germer lias just brought a fine apfde orchard Into bearing, after a number of years of work. Through his orchard runs a small stream, which comes from a spring near his I property. Some time Rgo a buuch of beavers came to the stream to make their home, and Mr. Germer, not ex-1 ex-1 peeling any harm, did not Interfere. A few days ago, however, he went into I his orchard and found a half dozen ol : bit, best trees chopped down and carried car-ried into the stream, where they were t-rtanged In the form of a neatly con-siructed con-siructed dam. Mr. Germer did some damning of his owu win 11 he saw what bad been done, but he did not break the law regarding the shooting of 1 beavers. Instead ho summoned Fred W. Chambers, state flph and ganio commissioner In uu effort to get permission per-mission to trim the beavers. Mr. Chambers vvent to the ccne and I'd vised Mr. Germer that It would be cheaper to build a fcDCO than to kill |