The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 05, 1922, Image 3
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BKGAMEABOUDS
IN UNITED STATES
PREDATORY ANIMALS IN UN1TI
ED STATES KILL MORE THAN
f ^ ?2,000,000 WORTH ANNUALLY.
T Washington, Sept. 28.?One thing
that proves : constant puzzle to the
Biological urvey, Department of
Agriculture, s why persons go to
Africa to ho t big game.
Another is why do bureau employ- j
ees buy book of adventure.
Replying t < first, they cite figures I
to show that any one 01 UlCH |/oiu |
hunters has much better success in
Western United States than the average
finds in Africa.
For the latter they exhibit a mail
that literally is overflowing wjth real
live stories of daring in quest of
mountain lion, the hoary grizzly or
the predatory wolf.
These animals are fought just as
scientifically as the Bureau of Ento-1
f mology wages war on the cotton boll
weevil, or any other of the insect
pes^s, and for a similar reason. It is
that the lion, bear, wolf, coyote and
bobcat menace the stock indutsry
just as the insects menace the plant
industry.
Some years ago the damage
wrought by these animals reached
such proportions that the Department
of Agriculture set out to exterminate
them. Lari'i? numbers of men were
employed fcr their ability to shoot
accurately a ad a thorough knowledge
of woodcraft. There are now 300 of
them beatirg up the waste places in
the merciless conflict to kill the killfers
among America's larger mammals.
What they have done in this respect I
may be gleaned from the following
figures furnished by the Biological
Survey: Total killed, coyotes, 139,'
346; bobcats and lynxes, 18,374;
wolves, 3,936; bears, 405; mountain
lions, '608.
Few realize that so many of the
larger mammals are still extant in
the I'nited States, but the Biological
Survey claims that it is only a portion
of the population. There still
are enough of the big killers left in
the hills to keep the predatory game
hunters busy for years to come, they
claim.
Excerpts of a day's mail of the
Survey give an insight to the men
who are hunting the big game. These
are a few:
"Cleve Killer, hunter in the Eagle
Creek, Double Circle range, Arizona,
after frequently losing the trail, ran
one very large male lion to cover and
killed him. This lion had been killinor
poits of the Double Circle outfit*
In addition he caught a female lio*\
and a big grizsly that had been killing
calves.
"Charles Miller, hunter, at Flagstaff,
Arizona, was hampered by the
lack of horses and only got one lion.
Bob Berger, hunter, continued his i
work after wolves in the south end
of the Sar.ta Rita Mountains. He
killed the last of five wolves that
crossed the Mexican border and located
on this range last year. Since
that time '-hey had 'been causing un-1
told damasje. J. M. Wilson, hunter,
in the Graham Mountain region, succeeded
in killing one small lion. Do
* not consider this good work, as there
are numerous lions on this range.
"Dave Crouch, hunter, Texas Creek
district, Colorado, has killed the 'McIntyre
Hilis lion.' This lion was first
seen in the north ridges about two
years ago and had two kittens with
her. She ranged between Texas
Creok and Copper Gulch up to 1920J
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She made a large nuuwcr Ul ucti
kills. About May, 1921, she disappeared
and only recently returned to
resume her destructive career of killing
deer and cattle.
"H. A. Roberts traps large male
wolf known as 'Big Foot' and also
as 'The Terror of Lane County' as
well as the female mate and seven
pups on the range north of De Buque.
Roberts was ordered here because of
statements of J. A. Wilcoxon and the
Currier Brothers, who declared that
two-fifths of their calf crop was taken
by these wolves.
"At one place in Spink Canyon,
Col., one of our hunters found wolves
denned as deep as forty feet with
tunnels like those in a mine. In
order to get them out the tunnel had
t to be braced with timbers so tnai a
> man could go in safely." I
These are everyday exploits and
on this particular day do not contain
reference to the champion lion hunter
of them all, one Chauncey E. Beebe,
who with his faithful dog Jerry is
without a close second.
Many of the animals have still
other indictments against them. One
of the gravest is that they invade
resenations where the government
is trying to protect deer and that
A generally all of them give other wild
game short shrift.
In addition the coyote is generally
infected with rabies, and, while he
does not kill so extennsively, succeeds
in spreading the disease to cattle,
A horses and other domestic animals, at
times attacking human' beings.
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The destruction of stock by preda- '
tory animals during the year is estimated
by the government at between
$20,000,000 and $30,000,000.
Some interesting figures are:
"In Colorado a single wolf took a
toll of $3,000 worth of cattle.
'In Texas two wolves during a
period of two weeks killed seventytwo
sheep valued at $9 each.
"A lone wolf in New Mexico killed
twenty-five head of cattle in two
months, while another in the same
state was reported by stockmen to
have killed 150 cattle valued at not
less than $5,000. This was during a
period of six months.
"At another point in Texas a wolf
had a known kill of twenty yearling
steers, nine calves, one cow, fifteen
sheep and one sheep dog.
"In Oregon a coyote was tr-apped
within two weeks after it reached the
range. During this time it killed
fifteen pure-bred lams valued at $20
each. Three attacked a flock of sheep
and killed $500 worth within three
hours.
"In Texas a bobcat was caught in
a trap after it had Killed nity-mree
rams, one ewe and one goat in a single
month.
"One of the grizziles taken had
a known kill of eighty-three fuilgrown
steers."
After a personal investigation in
New Mexico the head of the State
Agricultural College reported:
"Thirty-four thousand three hundred
and fifty cattle, 150,000 sheep
and 850 horses are killed annually in
this state by predatory animals
these losses amounting to $2,175,250.
This involves a loss of 16,000,000
pounds of beef and 1,320,000 pounds
of wool."
The cost to the government to keep
these expert hunters afield necessarily
is a big one, but it is almost written
off by the profits received from the
sale of the pelts from the animals
The sales to date have netted upward
of $240,000 to the United States
treasury, the reports show.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE
The office of the Supervisor of
Registration will be open on the l st
Monday in each month for the pur
Cse of registering any person who
qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident
of the State for two years, and of
the county one year, and of the
poll: j precinct in which the elector
offers to vote four months before
the day of elction, and shall have
paid, six months before, any poll
tax then due and payable, and who
can both read and write any section
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CO null oy UlC supctviauia wi iw(ui
tration, or who can show that ht
owns, and has naid all taxes collectible
on daring the present year, prop
erty in this State assessed at three
hundred dollars or *'*e.
R. E. CI ' RKSON, ,
Clerk of Board.
Send us your oraers for Job printing
See list of contestants an page 5.
666 quickly relieves a coldTRESPASS
NOTICE.
All dumping, hunting, or otherwise
trespassing on my lands formerly i
owned by H. 0. Britton; formerly
owned by H. 0. Britton and George
J. Graham on the west side of Black
river is positively prohibited. ^
F. J. WATSeKT
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New Hardwood Mill to Open.
Columbia, Sept. 29.?Ground was
broken this week for the location of
the largest of four hardwood mills
operated by the Hoffman Brothers
Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., a
company established in 1867. Forty
npioc wprp nnrrhased bv the coniDanv
along the Southern Railway from Columbia
to Savannah and to Augusta.
It was through the efforts of the
Columbia Chamber of Commerce that
the capital city was selected by the
company's officers who have been investigating
possible sites since early
last spring. The mill will manufacture
hardwoods for. the construction
of furniture, pianos, phonographs and
other musical instruments. They
ship all over the Wnited States and
to France, England, Belgium and Norway.
Besides offering employment to a
hundred men at Columbia, the new
industry opens up a market in this
state for logs such as cypress, ash, |
popular, gum and other hardwoods. |
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That's what thousands of parent!
Kewpie
because they can be rebuilt as goo
Even the best children's shoes we
and these shoes are no exception.
The makers have made it possibl
fortable wear from the same sho
pair of new shoes.
You may have these sh
by experts and return
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of wear?double life?from one p
the first coct.
Buy tbese?ahocs for your childrei
money.
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10 for 5^^^
Sugar jacket just
"melts in your mouth," ^
then you get the delectable
gum center.
And with Wrigley's three <
standby* also affording frien
aid to teeth, throat, breath,
petite and digestion.
Soothing. thirst-quenching.
Making tko next cigar >
taste better. yfljj
The officers of the company are:
President, F. E. Hoffman, vice-president
and treasurer, H. Brooks Sale,
vice-president and manager, Chris A
Walker, and secretary and assistant
manager, Charles L. Smith. Besides
; the plant at Fort Wayne, Ind., the
: company now operates one at Kendall!
ville, Ind., and one at Burnside, Ky.
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A. F.M.
Meets the second Thursday night
in each nonth. Visiting bretheren
cordially invited. H. U. Kinder, W.
M., Donald Montgomery, Secretary.
Seed Oats for Sale.
Red Rust Proof Seed Oats, lot price
80<f per bushel; single bags 85<* per
bushel.
9-28-2tc. Kingstree Grocery Co.
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