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harbored insect life, upon which young trout 

 thrive. Farther down the streams obstructing 

 dams were erected to shut out the larger trout, 

 which would otherwise have ascended and de- 

 voured great numbers of the fry. At the end of 

 three months, when the young fish had grown 

 large enough to care for themselves, the ob- 

 structions were removed. Actual observation 

 proved that this method resulted in a consid- 

 erably larger percentage of trout that survived 

 and grew to maturity than results when the 

 other method is employed. 



Utah was once a magnificent game field, but 

 civilization, as elsewhere, has wrought its de- 

 struction throughout the State. Even in the 

 wide stretches of still unsettled mountain wil- 

 derness and arid plain behind the fertile settled 

 valleys, so sad a depletion of wild life has taken 

 place that scarcely a section remains in the 

 whole State that can be recommended as a fav- 

 orable field for sportsmen, other than anglers, 

 excepting only duck shooting. 



While in Kanab I was informed by men who 

 claimed to have seen them, that a few moun- 

 tain sheep inhabit the ridges to the eastward in 

 Kane and Garfield Counties, and also in the 

 mountains of San Juan County north of Bluff 

 City. Later I was informed by a man in Long 



