Mohave County miner., 1916-08-05
RABIES IN NEVADA
 IS COMING SOUTH

 ] The unmistakable fact that coyote
 rabies is spreading rapidly this way from its starting point in northeast ern Oregon is corrObOrated from va rious sources. It has spread out over Nye county, Nevada, of which Tono- pah is the county seat, and by the en- suing winter, at the latest, there will be no doubt of it's reaching the Colo radO river. Then if by an interven- tion of Providence it fails to cross the river, through the fact that the stream never freezes up at this latitude and the mad animals being crazy and not
 likely to swim, this state will be spared many human lives and millions of dollars in livestock. Yet there is no certainty that the mad animals will not be the very ones to swim the river, even possibly being more likely to do so than those not being crazed by the disease.
 b The following from the Goldfield Tribune tells of the coming of the dis ease and the peril to which ranchers' families and livestock are exposed in Nye county:
 "Three rabid coyotes recently raided the Dugan ranch at Hot creek. They bit all the animals they could reach and attacked children, who were play ing some distance from the house. The children ran and escaped into the house. The coyotes followed and at tempted to get in through the screen door, One of the animals was shot, and its jaws were found to be covered with foam and blood"
 Not all rabid coyotes froth at the mouth; at least, they do not do so all the four days that they are mad-they die after the fourth day. But whether they froth or not their bite transmits the disease bacteria or germs to any living thing. It comes from the saliva of the mouth, and to have the tongue of a rabid animal of any kind, even a sheep, COW or horse, pass over an open sore on the human body, or that of an animal, is equal to a bite.
 The Reno Gazette tells of Sheriff | Slavin of Nye county wiring to Gov ernor Boyle of Nevada of great loss of livestock in the Duckwater country, | which is a good many miles south and | east of Hot creek, and appealing for state aid to combat the peril. The | Gazette states that the sheriff asks | for "a man to exterminate the coy | otes." Since Nye county is much larger than some states, and coyotes are the smartest animals in the world, with the possible exception of their cousins, the grey wolves, it would be a rather large undertaking for one man. It would be a large one, in fact, for 100 men.
 Nevada is a source of great annoy ance and loss to all the states border ing upon it. This is for the 4eason that it is the breeding ground for coy otes, never making an effort to exter- minate them. It offers a mere pittance of bounty by counties-50 cents the trapper has to have ten to get even that. In addition he must remove the scalp, which takes 30 to S1 from the value of the fur. The state then offers an additional 75 cents through the cattle commission, but to get it the feet must be removed, which also hurts the sale of the fur. Then still another 75 cents, through the sheep commission, is offered, but the scalp must be cut off to get that, but the same scalp used to get the 50 cents from the counties cannot be used to collect both sums. For a trapper to get both, the coyote must have two scalps and none so equipped have. ever been shot in Nevada. The whole thing is the same as no bounty at all and trappers never bother with them, and, as a matter of fact, cannot make a living in the state.
 Since the appearance of rabies no of this muddled and in- sincere bounty law has been enacted and the disease has spread at will. A few government hunters, so-called, have been put out to shoot (at) the animals, but they are willy and seldom seen. The only way is to trap them or hunt and destroy the pups in sea- son. This requires the use trained dogs, but the state is quarantined and trappers are denied the right to use their dogs. Neither method has been hence all that can possibly keep hydrophobia from Arizona, and epidemic in this state, is the possibility of the Colorado river stop ping it.