The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-11-20
COYOTE HUNTERS ARE
DOING GOOD WORK
Government Man In Charge Says
Campaign of determination
Will Be Successful

DduS, WIN 10 III StioiBCol tiC oOschh-
ment work of exterminating mad
coyotes in Nevada. arrived in Elko
Monday for the purpose of conferr-
ing with Government hunters and
trappers in this section.
There are eight hunters in between
Winnemucca and Elko-two on the
North Fork, one on Mary's river,
two at Tuscarora, one at Golconda,
one at Battle Mountain and one at
Beowawe.
Mr.. Sans stated that good prog
ress is being made, hunters having
averaged about one coyote a day for
each man. In southern Humboldt
County where there are many wild
horses which may be shot and used
for bait, very many coyotes are
being poisoned.
The situation is worse in Humboldt
County than in any other part of the
State, because the coyotes followed
the sheep from the Oregon line down
to Winnemucca, and the spread of
infected animals eastward and west
ward has not been so rapid as from
north to south.
Mr.. Sans says that every brain of
a coyote killed north of the railroad
from Deeth to Lovelock which he
has sent to the University of Nevada
for examination has shown rabies,
| while several sent from animals killed
south of the railroad have not shown
the disease.
He says that many coyotes die
without being shot or trapped. for
they live only three to seven days
after the disease develops.
To help along the determination
Mr.. Sans says that Humboldt County
has put up the bounty to $3.50 and
Modoc County, California, has placed
the bounty at $3.50. contingent upon
Washoe County's doing the same.
If Washoe County does not increase
the bounty within thirty days Modoc
County threatens TO cut the bounty.
Hunters are being paid $75 per
month and furnish their own horses,
guns and traps. Ranchmen are CO.
operating by furnishing feed for the
horses and boarding the hunters. 1t
has been repeatedly stated that the
hunters are allowed to keep the skins
add scalps, but Mr.. Sans says this is
not so. The men are paid S75 per
month, but if a man can turn in a
pelt a day, or even rs amonth, he
will be paid $50 instead of SIS.
The animals must be skinned and
the skins sem to Washington. D.. c.,
where they are taken care of by the
national museum. An arrangement
exists whereby these skins are ex'
changed with foreign countries fol-
skins from those countries, which &c
to swell the collection of the museum.
For this reason it is necessary that
great care be taken in skinning the
animals, and it is a part of the mis-
sion of Mr.. Sans in coming to ElkC
at this time to show the hunters how
to skin the animals so the hides may
be used in the museum. In southern
Humboldt County, where the trap
per has..many miles to cover, it otter
happens that by the time he gets
back to a trap that the pelt of a coy
ote is spoiled. These and the pelts
of animals far gone with rabies are
lost.
Mr.. Sans believes the extermina-
ton of the coyotes will be accom-
plished in due time. An organized
exterminating force, he says is the
only way to handle the problem.
Offering high bounties will not do.
for the reason that when coyotes be-
come scarce hunters will quit hunting
because it no longer pays them. Then
when hunting is at low ebb, the ami
mails increase rapidly until they be-
come as numerous as ever.
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