Show DUCKS DYING BY THOUSANDS 1 contagious disease makes its appearance malady said to have arisen in swan lake county and communicated munica ted by migrating birds the following from the deseret news is 13 of interest int orest to sportsmen who pziyu pursue the festive duck ninety per cent of the ducks at the of the jordan river are dead was the startling statement made this morning by cashier 0 C beebe of the zions savings bank company compa riv who made a special trip frida friday down the jordan to satisfy himself as to the reported condition of the water fowl there mr beebe is a veteran sportsman particularly in it the matter of water fowl so he uld not be apt to overstate matters he says it made him heart sick to see at least fine looking ducks strewn all over the flats the custodian of the new state gun club told him that the other afternoon he and his boy gathered gati ered up dead bird and on the following day pick id ed up 1760 when they got tired ind and quit mr beebe then went out aut in a boat and up one canal where he counted IS 18 dead ducks in 11 feet he calls attention to the fact that if there are so many lead dead fowl within the comparatively mall area of auntry he was able to cover fridae there must be countless count lesi others in and around the sloughs to the west and south of that section the presence pre of so many thousand dead ducks must be more or less of a menace to public health as they are ill decaying under the hot noonday s sun un and mr beebe believed it would be well for the fish and game commissioner to i issue sue a cautionary notice to sportsmen to rive live up the idea of shooting at the opening of the season is there must be many partially diseased ducks dacks which would bo be shot and afterwards eaten when their flesh nas 6 as in no condition for eating ile he examined a number of birds discovering their livers were diseased at the same time the dead birds ap peered outwardly outward lv all right with bright ces and shiny feathers fish and game commissioner chambers has been active actively 13 interesting himself in this unfortunate condition of affairs he s bivs avs tile tha trouble the liver of is 19 roup winch which attacks the buds lust as mr air beebe slid and results in deith death sickness is verv short as the disease works rapi div lv the disease is contagious brought by ducks from swan lake ida where it originated the trouble is due to the exceptionally dry season which occasioned a great deal of water in the lowlands in the swan like inke country with no fresh water flowing into these star stagnant nant waters aters they become putrid and poison the ducks feeding there killing them off bv the thousands at the lame game time slightly infected ducks biving away communicated the disease to others in more healthy localities mr Chi Chimo moers erg a ais s however that where there is 13 fresh flowing water there is no trouble the ducks are ara as he iltha as ever for this reason lie he has hag been arrAri arranging ging with the cita ind county authorities to turn more water into tho the and other canals which w will ill ave sive s ive the fowl feeding on the tha sloughs in th hit it pirt part of the valley |