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JACK KABBITS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Partial lists of Babbit Hunts in Utah — Contiuued. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Millard County. 



Corn Creek i Mar. 27, 1894 



Kanosh ' Jan.—, 1893 



Do I Jan. (19?), 1894... 



Sanpete County. \ 



Mount rieasant \ Dec.30,1894 to Jan. 



12, 1895. 

 Wayne County. 



Loa ' Dec. 14, 1894 



Central Utah , Dec. 3, 1893 , 



Do Nov.29,1894 



Do Dec. 8, 1894 



Total (26 hunts) 



Eabbits 

 killed. 



50-60 

 1,800 

 1,000 



Authority. 



Marcus E. Jones, Salt Lake City. 

 Jiiniea A. George, Kanosh. 

 Do. 



1,000 Several hunts. Postmaster. 



350 



2,762 

 1,379 



056 



37,215 



John T. Lazenby, Loa. 



John L. May, Salt Lake City. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



IDAHO. 



A few large bunts have recently occurred in southern Idaho, but 

 greater success has attended the introduction of the rabbit drive. A 

 novel method is sometimes employed in Fremont County, the rabbits 

 being baited by spreading a line of hay on the snow or on the ground, 

 and after they are ' lined up ' several can be killed at a single shot. 



Mr. T. T. Eutledge, assistant director of the experiment station at 

 Nampa, Canyon County, reports that a small hunt took place about 

 September 1894, near that place, but the number killed is unknown. 

 In the winter of 1894-95 about 2,600 jack rabbits were killed near Idaho 

 Falls, Bingham County, and shipped to Eustice, Nebr., along with grain 

 and provisions for distribution among the drought sufferers in that 

 State. Another smaller hunt also occurred at Idaho Falls later on. 



While these pages are passing through the press, reports have been 

 received indicating that rabbit driving is being successfully carried 

 on in the southern part of the State. At Marion, Cassia County, about 

 5,000 rabbits were killed in a drive on December 9, 1895. It was esti- 

 mated that 500 people were present and that an area of country less 

 than 3 miles square was driven over; 4,000 more rabbits were killed at 

 the same place during the following week. 



Farther east two smaller drives were held at INIarket Lake, Fremont 

 County. In this case no corrals were built, the rabbits being simply 

 driven into the railroad stock yards and afterwards shipped to Salt 

 Lake City for distribution among the poor. The following list has been 

 brought down to date as far as possible and includes five drives which 

 occurred early in January, 189(5: 



Partial List of Idaho Habbit Brieves and Hunts. 



Locality. 



Idaho Falls. 

 Do 



Binghain County. 



Nampa. 



Canyon County. 



Date. 



Winter 1894- 



95. 

 do 



Sept.— ,1894 



Kabbits 

 killed. 



2, 600 



Authority. 



A. V. Scott, Idaho Falls. 

 Do. 



T. T. Ilutlcdgo, Nampa. 



