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Show Mammoth Rabbit Hunt and Drive to Take Place in Sanpete County on Sunday, Feb. 9, Leading Citizen's of Mount Pleasant Held Public Mass Meeting at the Opera House Monday Evening Feb. 3. Committees Were Appointed to Receive Visiting Sports From Salt Lake and Utah Counties. D. & R. G. Will Send Special Train with Gunners for the Big Drive. Nearly 20,000 Bunnies Have Been Killed in Similar Drives in the County During the Month of January. - i f - M ,H J it, -' . - . " saf . . . .. . A Scene After Final Round-up at a Big Drive The greatest undertaking '"fter attempted in the distraction distract-ion of rabbits in the state of Utah will be the Mammoth Rabbit Hunt and Drive which is scheduled to take place on l Sunday Feb. 9, 1913 at a place selected just East of Spring I City. Many of the leading citizens of Alt. Pleasant prefer- ed to have the drive on Satur-'s Satur-'s day, but owing to the desire of nt the leading sports of Salt Lake City who were unable to leave - their business affairs on week J lays, it was decided to hold the a big event on the 9 th. H Large crouds of people have at-; at-; H tended other similar drives which - $ lave been held in this section of the 3 II yite and it is expected that n. a.ly 0 ',000 people will attend this ore. Nearly 20,000 rabbits have already ' een captured in this manner in San pete County during the past month. The Denver &Rio Grande Railroad Company has consented to send a special train from Salt Lake City to Mt. Pleasant and return on Sunday Feb. 9th, to permit the different sports along-the line to accept the kind invitation of the Mt. Pleasant Gun Club and join them in a big rabbit rab-bit hunt. The train will leave Salt Lake City at 7 o'clock a. m. and arrive ar-rive at Mt. Pleasant at about 10:30 a. m. It will consist of one large baggage car and as many coaches as are necessary to cara for the shooters and their friends. Ladies will not be barred from this trip. Two engines Will be used from Salt Lake City to Thistle and three will be used from there to pull the train over Hill Top to Mt. Pleasant. The rates from all points between Salt Lake City and American Fork to Mount Pleasant and return will be $2.00 and from Provo and Spring-ville Spring-ville $1.75. ' On Monday evening the leading citizens of Mount Pleasant met in se :stj A 7 to 1 B ' : ' iluriters of a Big Rabbit Drive. a public ma?s meeting at the Oprra House for the purpose of selecting committees to provide teams, wagons and pickers for the visiting sports. A committee was also appointed to prepare a wire netting fence to inclose in-close about ten acres of brush land to entrap the bunnies. The fence will have two large wings reahinir far out into the distance to guide the rabbits into the trap. A general reception committee was tppointed and Hon. John H. Seely and Postmaster Post-master Thos. Braby were chosen captains of the day. Part of the hunters from Salt Lake will be let off the train a little South of Mount Pleasant while the rest will hi taken to the stones quarries near Pigeon Hollow and both companies will proceed towards the place selected for the general Rjund-Up. The Spring City Delegation will join the hunters at the Stone Quarries South of Spring City Depot. All teamsters and parties expecting expect-ing to participate in the hunt are requested by the committee to meet at the depot not later than 9:30 a. m. Following are, the committees selected: General Reception Committee Lauritz Larson, Chairman. Chas. Eatinger, A. H- Pouls?ri. Thos. Braby, Moroni JTarn worth, John H. Seely, J. E. Gunderson. John Averett, Asa Coats. S. P. Sorensen, Niel Larson. Hans Nielson, Chas. Jacobsen. S. D. Longsdurf, S. M. Nielson. Commit: ee on Fencing J. E. Gunderson, Chairman A. H. Poulsen, S. D. Longsdorf. Niels Larson, Asa Coates. L. C. Rasmussen, and S. P. So: -ensen. Conveyance Committee Teams will be furnished by the following committee. The first person per-son named in each group will have charge of that division: John H. Seely will furnish . 2 Teams Martin Rasmussen, 1 Team L. C. Rasmussen, 1 " Joseph Seely, 1 C H. Eatinger, 1 " W. D. Candland, 1 " George Madsen, 1 " P. H. Madsen, ' 1 " Alonzo Madsen, 1 A. H. Poulsen, 1 " A. Bigler, 1 " C. Rasmussen, 1 " Joseph P. Johansen, 1 Walter Candland, 1 " Clarence Jacobson. 1 " Parley Brotherson, 1 Andrew Brown, 1 " Andrew M. Nielsen, 1 " Andrew Soronsen, 1 " j S. P. Sorenson, 1 " N. P. Madsen, 1 " George M. Olsen, 1 " JohnNeilsen, 1 " Andrew Norman, 1 Asa Coates, 1 Frank Madsen, 1 Jolm K. Madsen I Emil Hasler, ' 1 C. T. Druge, 1 Lauritz Larsen, 1 S. E. Jensen, 1 Frank Larsen, 1 Lester Ney, 1 Char.es Oldham, 1 Moroni Farnsworth, Lawience Barton, 1 Amsa Scovil, 1 " , R .swell McArthur 1 " Lawrence Winters, 1 Jess2 B. Reynold, 1 " John Averett, 1 L. M. Christ?nsen, 1 " A. P. llred, 1 " J. B. Staker, Jr., 1 Stewart Seely, 1 " Hans Nielsen, 1 Andrew Nielson, 1 J. D. Meynck, . I " , Orson Frandsen, 1 '" . B. R. Hansen. 1 " Niels Larsen. W. W. Rasmussen, 1 Ras Rasmussen, 1 Hyrum Madsen, 1 Olof Rosenlof, 1 " S. D. Longsdorf, Parley Rosenlof 1 Andrew C- Madsen 1 C. T. Madsen, 1 " Frans Frandsen, 1 L. J. Frandsen, 1 S. M. Nielsen. A. W. Proctor, 1 A. P. Peel; '. 1 " Roy Chrislensen 1 Kimball Johanssn, i Byron Hampshire, 1 |