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young game animals and birds. If they could 

 be radically reduced in number very doubtless, 

 with the present protective laws, game would 

 show a more marked increase, particularly 

 deer. There are, too, some timber wolves. As 

 a result of inquiry I am satisfied that predatory 

 animals are steadily increasing, and much more 

 rapidly than the protected animals. This is 

 natural, with hunting limited, for few sports- 

 men go into the field particularly for predatory 

 animals, though when in the field they may in- 

 cidentally kill many, and those who hunt for 

 a business must have sufficient reward as an in- 

 ducement. 



Northward from Richfield populous valleys 

 in continuous succession lead on to Salt Lake 

 City, and only once in this stretch of country — 

 near Juab — did night find me between villages, 

 where I was called upon to lie out in the open 

 sage brush. Nowhere here does the traveler 

 find sufficiently good grazing upon the open 

 range for his horses. Indeed the free range is 

 rapidly disappearing, and even those areas in- 

 capable of irrigation because of no known sup- 

 ply of water are being located as "dry farms," 

 and dry farming is carried on to no inconsid- 

 erable extent. 



On the dry farm oats and wheat are almost 



