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Valley that he had seen sheep in the Henry 

 Mountains. 



There are mountain sheep in Washington 

 County, in the southeast of Utah. Observers 

 claim that since Utah established a permanent 

 closed season on sheep, these herds have slightly 

 increased in size and but for the large number 

 of predatory animals would annually show a 

 decided increase. 



In nearly all of the southern counties, as for 

 instance Grand, San Juan, Kane, Washington, 

 and Iron Counties, a few antelope have sur- 

 vived the war of extermination and like the 

 mountain sheep are said to be increasing in 

 numbers since hunting has been prohibited. 



Domestic sheep and sheep herders are the 

 greatest enemies of the antelope, as well as of 

 other game animals and birds in the regions 

 where herders take their flocks. The ranges 

 over which domestic sheep pasture are denuded 

 of forage and stripped of all growth, and ante- 

 lope will not remain upon a range where sheep 

 have been. Sheep herders, too, in secluded 

 regions have excellent opportunity to kill game 

 without detection. They make the most of the 

 opportunity, and many antelope undoubtedly 

 fall before their rifles, for a herder, wearying 

 of a diet of mutton, is never over-scrupulous 





