The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-11-11
GOOD PROGRESS BEING
MADE BY COYOTE HUNTERS

+. r. Sans, who is in charge of the
government work of exterminating
rad coyotes in Nevada, arrived in Elko
yesterday for the purpose of confer
ring with government hunters and trap-
pers in this section, says the Free Press.
There are eight hunters in between
Winnemueca and Elko-two on the
North Fork, one on Mary's river, two
at Tusearora, one at Goleonda, one at
Battle Mountain and one at Beowawe.
Mr.. Sans states that good progress
Is being made, hunters having aver
aged 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
Winnemucea, and the spread Of infect
ed animals eastward and westward 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 Loveloek which he has sent
animation has shown rabies, while sew
erla sent from animals killed south of
the railroad have not shown the dis
ease.
He says that many coyotes die with
out 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
county, California, has placed tn boun-
ty at $3.50, contingent upon Washoe
eounty'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 SIS per
month and furnish their own horses,
guns and traps. Ranchmen are coop
e,ating by furnishing feed for the
horses and boarding the hunters. 1t has
been repeatedly stated that the hunt
ers are allowed to keep the skins and
sealps, but Mr.. Sans says this is not
sc. The men are paid $75 per month,
but if man can turn in pelt day,
OF even twenty-five a month, he will
lie paid 500 instead of $75.
The animals must be skinned and
the skins are sent to Washington, d.
c., where they are taken care of by the
museum. An arrangement ex-
lists whereby thes skins are exchanged
with foreign countries for skins from
those countries, which go to swell the
collection of the museum. For this rea-
son it is necessary that great care be
taken in skinning the animals, and it
is a part of the mission of Mr.. Sans
IL coming to Elko 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 a
trapper has many miles to cover, it of
ten happens that by the time he gets
back to trap that the pelt of a coyote
is spoiled. These and the pelts of ami
mails far gone with the rabies are lost
Mr.. Sans believes the determination
OF the coyotes will be accomplished in
due time. An organized exterminating
force, he says, is the only way to han
die the problem. Offering high boun
ties will not do, for the reason that
when coyotes become scare hunters will
quit hunting because it no longer pays
tnm. Then when hunting is at low
ebb the animals increase rapidly until
they become as numerous as ever.