| Show Doing inTHE in in- in t. t THE GREAT OUTDOORS By Bv Bv Stan Taggart flie e Fish and Game Osme Depart Depart- i annual nuat Spring deer counts counte will wilt begin locally the last two ends of March arch That h t is b If It were we're able to get around on h horses Mes by then says Gays Cons Con's Conservation Officer er Par Parter ter If U theres there's still a lot of of snow we might not start our trend counts until the first tint of ofA A April rU The important thing of course coUMe is to count the deer at a time r I when conditions are most ne nearly the same Mme as RII they've been during past spring counts a a Bronson Bagnell Dagnell and friends made some deer trend counts around Kamas last week Total Totals bit below were Just a last years year's figures noted Conservation Con Cone Officer Bagnell Scheduled next deer counts on the Chalk Creek range a s as Howard r reports e p po o r t s counting 42 head of deer up behind behind be be- hind Dohman's Bobman's there at Peterson one day last week Howard also saw a moose down along the river not too long ago Changing d deer e e r populations There Thero didn't used to be one deer Where a hundred are now So states 75 year old year old woodsman Bert BertAllen Allen hut he adds On the other hand we dont don't have as many deer now as ne we had bad just fifteen or twenty years ago I can remember near I Eddington's Lost Creek ranch not too many years back and watching watch ing them cross at the mouth of Hell Canyon by the hour One after another right In each others other's tracks If It you can count a dozen there today youre you're I lucky Bert agrees that the ever ever- rising number of hunters has had a lot to do with this decrease decrease de de- de crease In deer t t s jl Hundreds of whitefish can now i be he seen from the Peterson bridge We understand therell there'll probably I a t be lit a longer season on em next r winter r s Me Ie and Ward Thurston were working working in Lost C Creek eek for Dave DaveT 1 p T mentioned mention d Bert Allen Allen Al Al- l len n when when a man got lost In Ina n nJ J y a blizzard up there It was quite a astory I tl story Mick Eddington could tell you all about it So we asked Erroll D D. D Mick l- l Eddington about Lost Creeks Creek's lost III man ran Heres Here's how he recalled the incident This young man rode up to our ranch one stormy February day and stopped In long enough enough en en- ough to have dinner Inner with us us That must h have ve been about 1902 because I was only six or seven years old at the t time Anyway this fellow tellow was In a hurry to get out to the head of Lost Creek where he was going to work for the D Deseret eret Land and Livestock Company so Company so he got up to leave the minute he finished finish finish- ed eating It had been snowing hard all that day Dad tried to talk the boy into staying at the ranch until the storm eased up but he was wad anxious to move on So dad drew him up a map and mother packed him a lunch Then he be mounted his horse and rode fode on up the canyon into the blizzard bUzzard Three or four weeks went by before it became known that the young fellow was missing The Bountiful Militia went out and hunted him then but their search turned up nothing A short time Ume later the boys boy's horse was found I n And in April someone eon came upon his hie saddle with saddle with its cinch strap I cut U tt was thought that he must've I Ic c cut t the strap when his horse houe gave out on him I Charles Charlea Olson a Ii man who lived at Morgan and herded sheep for Deseret Livestock finally happened onto the body In about It was sitting I up tp loP beside a i bru brush h Just Jut a half half- mile up the ere from Helpers Helper's I cabins They rey red iced the kid I had 1 sat dour cloVi t. t to tu rest test became I tl chilled chided and frozen A A. few more I minutes of or walking would've brought him right tight back down to I our ranch They never did find ht hta head We think Mick concludes that he got up as far as the top of Big DIg Trail the day he left our ourI ranch Then losing his directions directions I In the blizzard he turned off ort down what we call Indian Fork Instead Fork instead of continuing on on north over the This brought him right back into the bottom of Lost Loot Creek Creek but but at a point eight long miles above our ranch Micks Mick's mother Mrs Laura Eddington also allo remembers remember the Incident He seemed to be a avery avery avery very fine fellow she says of the boy who fell victim to a severe Lost Creek winter I a I Prices on bobcat hides are the highest ever Even little scrawny pelts Jelts now bring fifteen bucks apiece Seems theres there's a big demand demand demand de de- de- de mand in Europe e right now for forthe forthe forthe the side belly of all spotted cat furs I Never did find out what they're em for I I Fur buyer Ben Den Airee told a local trapper last week These These I I bobcat pelts I I. I just bought will be he bein I In New York tomorrow and Europe the next day I S Alva Dearden has turned his Morgan Thea Theatre re over to the Jeep Jeep I I Posse for the evenings of March 16 and 17 Alva has lined up up the I Inow I now w western Yellowstone Kelly for these nights I Tickets for this benefit show can be bought from any anyone one of the 34 Jeep Patrol members Profits from the Clint Walker cowboy thriller will be used as aa payment on the search and rescue rescue rescue res res- cue groups group's new way two-way radio equipment Some of these ticket sellers by bythe bythe bythe the way can usually be Ibe found over at Lorin Halls Halls' blacksmith shop shop weldin wash wash- in JU In and Gotta Gatta keep those yellow ellow outfits M Findings of the annual winter pheasant sex-ratio sex count conducted conduct conduct- ed by the Utah Department ofFish ofFish of ofFIsh Fish and Game Average ratio over the state shows one cock to slightly more than four tour hens The ratio varied by hy area surveyed from a low of one male to 16 female birds to a high of one male to hens liens S Remember The open all meeting of the Morgan County Rifle and Wildlife Association will be held Thursday March 24 at pm p.m. It will take place at the Courthouse BuildIng Build Build- I Ing and will feature Lee Kay of the State Fish and Game Department Department De De- Mr Kay will show movies i i Reports have it that Utah's current current extreme cold weather has not discouraged numbers of or anglers anglers anglers angl angl- ers from going afield on several of ot the waters open to year all-year fishing One report tells of excellent returns of whitefish for anglers fishing through the ice at Bear Dear Lake in Mich County They say the big lake has a good cover of ice that many fish of two pounds or more are being caught on both Loth bait and moving lures fished under the ice s Some final report figured figures issued by the Department of Fish and I Game this week I Utah's Utah total 1959 1059 deer harvest har har- I vest veit Total for 1958 I Number of license holders who who- who actually actually hunted In 59 Number of license holders who chickened out I Increase crease of hunters over the 1958 total Hunter success of 66 per cent and a bag of deer ar ars are s shown own tor for the regular license hunt Archery deer hunter success success suc suc- cess was listed at 16 per cent with a kill of 01 1236 animals Total Total Total To To- tal harvest records including all deer hunts for 1959 show a 60 bO per ller cent buck and 40 per cent cents s harvest These harvest figures are tabulated tabulated annually from hunter ques ques- j I cards and field data as final license licence e sale reports are returned returned returned re re- re- re turned from agents over the state This method of computing the harvest harvest har har- vest figures hag has proven to be statistically correct Gil Porter drove over the divide from Henefer the other day and noted that East Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon Reservoir Is about half full Hes He's not too optimistic about Its chances of completely complete complete- ly filling 5 Steve Ste Smith and boys made a lengthy snowshoe jaunt up Hardscrabble Hards- Hards last week end Saw quite a few deer and they were in good shape says Steve It was thaw thaw- ln In Ing quite a bit that day and we watched some pretty sized good-sized snow slides whoosh down those steep slopes slopes STAN |
