Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-15
Henry T. McEWan Returns from
Nevada Enthusiastic Over
The Sport.
IT IS A HUNTERS PARADISE.
People Are Now Harvesting Garden
Vegetables Preparatory TO Plant
ing Crops-Oil Operations.

OF the wonders of Moapa valley, for
merly known as Muddy valley. the first
one heralded in Salt Lake was that 1t
would grow six crops of lucern a year,
and that sprlng crops were harvested
early in January.
Now new one bids for its share OF
public notice. 1t is that Moapa valley
is quail hunters paradise. The
people have set traps near their houses
for them. and there are always a few
ON hand at each farm house ready for
the butcher knife and waiting for a
quail appetite
The little fluffy bird. so priced and
SO protected in most parts of America.
in Moapa is an omen of evil. A few
years ago the Salt Lake Route made
Moapa valley worth while, after 1t
had lain undeveloped for years since
Brigham Young first sent colonies down
to settle 1t. The colonies thrived In
no market available. and It was this
that the railroad furnished. Following
the coming OF the railroad, irrigation
projects were worked up, and canta-
loupes from Moapa valley came sud-
denly to have great value on the mar
and early appearance.
As the valleys market grew and ex-
banded. its acreage of titled land kept
pace, and this Is what has spread the
pest of quails. They seemed to get the
word on all the ranges between the
have increased in the Moapa district
until they have become genuine nuis-
ance.
Henry T. McEwan. assistant cashier
OF the State Bank OF Utah. has just re-
turned from Moapa. He went on busi-
ness trip but he remained to hunt quail.
The birds" he said" are very thick.
and the people are so anxious to get
rid of them that they treat the hunt
ers well. and assist them in every prac-
ticable way. To get in days hunting
II will be necessary to drive about five
miles from the railroad, either UP or
down the valley.
Mr.. McEwan reported that he en-
countered several parties of hunters
and all had done we'll with Their gun
ming work. THE greatest difficulty"
ne SAID is with tine weeds and sun
flowers. The land there Is the rich
est you ever saw, and as soon as
a crop ia cleared off weeds grow UP
in its place with alarming rapidly.
When a quail Is dropped in these weeds
It is pretty hard to locate It. without
a good dog.
II would advise any Salt Lake hunt
ers 10 take a dog along II they go down
for days sport"
STANDARD OILS MOVE.
There are other new things than the
abundance of quail Of interest In that
section. One thing Mr. McEwan not-
iced was a party OF well drivers, out
fitted to cross the valley, prospect
ing for oil. The Standard oil COM
pany had paid the freight on this out
lit to Moapa. and It is very probably
a Standard move to get into the new
oil fields of the southwest.
The people there are now harvesting
their crop OF spring vegetables, pre-
paratory to planting their summer
crops Lettuce, radishes. and all
the garden vegetables are being har4
vested and shipped right now deciar-
ed Mr.. McEwan. THE temperature
was about Ga while / was there, and
] found It pleasant in my shirt sleeves
all the time AS a winter resort the
valley has great possibilities"