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breaking away from the trammels of the 

 church, and are patriotically acting upon the 

 dictates of their conscience and voting as they 

 please, whether this is or is not in accordance 

 with the expressed wishes of the First Presi- 

 dency, and very often it is not. In the early 

 days of Utah the church and territorial gov- 

 ernment were under one head. It is very hard 

 for the older Mormons and any of the women 

 communicants of the church to realize that this 

 is not the case to-day, or at least why it should 

 not be. 



Deer are increasing in nearly all the wooded 

 mountainous regions, and Seaman assured me 

 they were on the whole rather plentiful in the 

 territory at the head of Long Valley. 



Bears, too, are scattered through the vari- 

 ous wilderness regions of Utah, from the Rio 

 Virgin country to the Idaho line, and in the 

 wooded mountains. They are not plentiful, 

 however — indeed they are becoming scarce, and 

 rare indeed is the silver tip. 



Bounties are paid on all the more destruct- 

 ive predatory animals, but these bounties are 

 not sufficiently liberal to induce hunters and 

 trappers to devote particular attention to their 

 capture. Of these the mountain lion, the coy- 

 ote, and the wildcat are the most destructive to 



