DESTRUCTION OF STOCK BY WOLVES. 



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Table 3. — Bounty records for nine years in Minnesota. 



Year. 



Number of 

 wolves 

 and coy- 

 otes on 

 which 

 bounty 



was paid. 



Total 



amount 



of bounty 



paid. 



Year. 



Number of 

 wolves 

 and coy- 

 otes on 

 which 

 bounty 



was paid. 



Total 



amount 



of bounty 



paid. 



1896 ' 2,000 $17,071.64 



1902 



641 

 3,929 

 4,235 



$2, 859. 28 



1897 3,344: 14,978.29 



1898 1,717 i 4,383.32 



1903. 



17, 476. 52 



1904 



Total 



23, 800. 98 



1900 



1901 



2,349 

 8,947 



6, 037. 05 

 27, 765. 91 



29,346 



119,952.38 



ARIZONA, UTAH, NEVADA, AND IDAHO. 



Eeports show a few wolves from the mountains of eastern Arizona 

 and Utah, from the Bruneau Mountains, Nevada, and from the 

 mountains of northern Idaho. 



OREGON. 



A wolf was reported near Grant's Pass about 1889, and in 1893 two 

 were shot in the Cascade Mountains east of Oregon City-. 



WASHINGTON. 



Wolves were common in the mountains about Colville, in north- 

 eastern Washington, in 1891, and were said to be occasionally found 

 in the Cascades about Easton. In 1891 they were reported as com- 

 mon in the Olympic Mountains. 



ALASKA AND CANADA. 



The few recent reports at hand from Alaska, with others from 

 numerous localities across Canada, indicate that wolves are more 

 generally distributed over the northern part of the continent than in 

 the United States, but also that they are generally less numerous 

 there than on some of the western stock ranges. North of the agri- 

 cultural and grazing areas of Canada wolves depend mainly on game 

 for food, and usually follow the herds of caribou and musk ox, in 

 some cases killing moose and deer. 



DESTRUCTION OF STOCK BY WOLVES. 

 CATTLE. 



The stock killed by wolves is mainly cattle. Calves and yearlings 

 are generally selected, but if these are not available, cows, and even 

 full-grown steers, are killed. They are usually attacked from behind 

 and literally eaten alive. Occasionally an animal will escape the 



