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Show Utah Hunters Bag Quarter Million Pheasants With the closing gun having sounded on Utah's 1957 pheasant season it became apparent .this week that the season just passed will , go on the records as being one of the most successful for Ut-, Ut-, ah gunners in recent years. It was estimated today by Utah State Department of Fish and Game officials that this year's harvest of cockrels would approach ap-proach the quarter million mark. This is also the close of the 1957 regular quail season. However, How-ever, department spokesmen reminded re-minded sportsmen that a late season sea-son on quail will be held in Washington Wash-ington county from December 7 through 15. Box Elder, Cache, Juab, Millard, Mil-lard, Rich, Tooele , and Weber counties will continue open for the taking of Hungarian and Chukar partridge. Chukars may still be taken in counties except Davis, Salt Lake, Summit and Wasatch. Field reports from department personnel indicate that these birds (remain in plentiful numbers but, as always, it was suggested that hunters make themselves acquainted acquain-ted with hunting areas and know something about the birds before going afield. , Where hunting on private land is anticipated the permission of the landholder should first be sought. |
