The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-16
ISA LAND OF PLENTY
Greatest Season In History of
Utah For Ducks.
1000 SPORTSMEN OUT
THEY RETURN WITH oVERIAD-
EN- BAGS OF GAME.
SPORTSMEN OUT

! Another i'll wind has blown some
| body good. While Salt Lake was burn
/ ing up with fever ell last summer and
crying out for more water and bemoan-
ing the scarcity thereof, the feathered
creatures down on the slough and river
banks were rejoicing that the water
was not high enough to wash out their
nests and thus kill or their broods.
But their happiness is now over, and
the result of the dry season is being
enjoyed by 1000 rejoicing nfmrods who
went out in all directions yesterday
/ after ducks. They agree that never
before have the teals and maIIards and
Tedheads herabouts breeded so plenti-
fully and that never before has the
shooting been SO good. This season,
they say, will break all records for this
state and Idaho.
Up to a late hour last night the man
who went and came home with an
empty bag had not been found. The
goOd-luck story was on every gunner'S
lips, and the gun stores were filed with
returning enthusiasts and others bent
on going out today.
Great Run on Gun Stores.
Long before daylight hundreds of the
cltyS SpOrtSmen struck out in carts
back, to begin a ceaseless slaughter of
the feathered tribe at the first peep of
dawn The gun stores We're all but
cleaned out Saturday. the demand for
ammunition and shooting irons sur
passing anything of the kind ever
known here Those who went out early
returned before breakfast for more shot
and unloaded their game bags to make
room for more There is literally no
end of ducks In the various hunting
places, and everybody is apparently
stacking up their meat houses for the
winter.
The restaurants actually had ducks
Tor breakfast yesterday morning, and
can use in weeks
Black Sloughs Popular.
Probably the best place to go is in
the black SlOughs west of town. There
were no less than 500 spOrtsnen out
that way at sunrise, and of that num-
Der if any one failed to bag a half
dozen by noon, it wasn't because ne
hadn't a chance to.
Probably the biggest killing Of the
day was made by A. Mcclellan and W.
A harrington, who went out at
o'clock in the morning and returned
before lunch time with ninety-four and
eighty-Seven ducks. respectively Fred
May and Harry Sherman We're in the
SlOughS from a m to a m, and
came home with ffty-one between
them. They found every kind of ducks
but canvasbacks-
White lake was also a popular sec
ton, ana many returned from there
overladen- They said it wasn't neces-
sary to get TO the waters edge
Plenty In the Sage Brush
''Why, they fly up out of the sage
brush at nearly every step you take
said one.
Beck's Hot Springs lake accommo-
dated about 100 OF the nimrOdS, and
the same reports of success came from
there. Josh SeIly of the city treasurer's
Office went out afoOt before brea kfast
and ran into a bunch the other side of
the Warm Springs. He returned in
time to go to work, with ten beauties.
Jack Sharp Sauntered down TO the
church pasture, southwest of the city,
and in the morning bagged eighteen. |
After dinner he returned to the fields !
and secured about twenty-five more.
c. Z. Nay and Billy Vaughn, the BIZ
cycle riders, were among those who
visited the slougiIs- They came in /
with fifty or sixty each.
About fifty Salt Lakers went up on !
the Bear river and were just as sue
cessful- Others went to Ogden. the /
mouth of the Weber being a. splendid /
spot, and still others favored Utah /
lake.
From ali the reports that have come /
in, gunners cannot make q. mistake, no /
matter what direction they take. This 1
being Sunday, il is estimated that no /
less than 5000 sportsmen viii go out.