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Show County Sports Buy Extensive Duck Grounds A deal was closed between the commissioners of Sanpete at their regular meeting this week and an organization of county duck hunters which involved -the h ansfer of some 3000 acres of bottom land - tu-ue1 north and west of the town of Fayette and lying west of adjacent to the Sevier river Exact fi; u:es involved in Hie transfer cannot be .given at this late because they have not vet been determined. The land purchased is property the county hag and to tal ofl' on delinquent tax sales and the duck hunters secured the prapeitv from the county for the taxe-i, inter-- s 1 1 and cost. The d'lii'.k hunters is an organiza- ion of some 100 men residing -in "an pete County, each of whom have paid a fee of $25 in to a general fund 'ith whkh to purchase this round. It has been known for some time that .his property wo;. 1.1 probably be offered offer-ed for sale and complying with a . opular sentiment of hunters of the -ounty that the grounds be secured poss.'ble for hunting purposes torts have been made 'by thi-nunters thi-nunters to create an organization that could secure the rounds. Dr Otto Nielson of Ephraim has een the prime .mover in the creat-' ii of this, ci tanizaticn.. He callec: i meeting gl :.portsmen to meet ii. Ephraim last fall to consider the sit- ait'cn. At that meeting a tempor-17 tempor-17 o ianization was perfected with Or. Nielson named president, S. Peter eterson of Mauti secretiiuy treasur r Dr. Rig'by and Har, y iia :.,ih ) A Fairview, L. R. Anderson, A. O Anderson of Manti, Attorney C. M. Eri ward-i and Dr. A. J. H-igen of dan-i:f.n dan-i:f.n directo's. A5 a result of sever-il sever-il a.bae.quent nice'tingj and confer-hcls confer-hcls a plan was evolved in substance s follows; that a fund of $2500 be aiied with which to purchase and mprove the grounds, that meinber-Jh'ipr, meinber-Jh'ipr, at $25 each be -solicited to the number .of 100 and that each town .n the county be giveu the privilege .f &3CV1 'ing membe 's. Twenty fivf members weire assi.gned Fairview, Mt. Pleasant, and ,Sr '" 1 T City; twenty-five to Ephraim, Moroni Wales, and Fountain Green: twenty five to Manti, Sterling and Mayfield ind twenty five to the Gunnison alley. At the last moetin,"; of Ihe 'temporary 'tem-porary officers .it wa reporled that Practically a'l the memberships had Keen taken up. The f.roun Is srt vjI container praclically 30 )0 aero., and evtnnd lorth and 2011 h f've .miles and range-n.g range-n.g from a half to ; ,vo mileB wide Inly one break occurs in the entire ra.t and that is 120 an 'as bought in iy Ed-.el Chri:iton?cn at the au'tion ale lar.t Satui.Oay. The grounds are ronsidered ainoiiQ- the best if not the best extensive duck shoot inig 'grounds n Sanpete County and if properly leveloped can be made into one of the finest migratory hird shooting n lands in the West. |