White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28

they be taxed five mills to pay for
it.. After it had been in force two
years the state auditor and other
enemies of the bounty objected on
the ground tht it furnished too MUCK
money and induced the legislature to
reduce it to one mill, which did not
furnish enough. The object was to
put a joker into the law and it sue
ceeded. On account of this Joker Of
arranging it hat there would not be
enough money the bounty had to be
suspended. l know what I am talk
ing about for l am recently from
there"
Mr.. Metcalf declared repeatedly
that a bounty law could not be pass
ed in this state. In reply to ques-
lions he said the net cost of de-
stroying coyotes where the fur is
sold and the proceeds returned to
the government was sa.32 each In
der the biological survey plan.
Not having had an opportunity TO
ask his second question of Mr.. Ras-
mussen, Mr.. Branson proceeded to
answer it himself. The question was
to have been. What dc you estimate
the cost will be to eXterminate the
coyotes under o L present system?'
He said it was costing the people
$4,000 a month for government trap
ping in Nevada now, but that it was
nonsense to talk about exterminatlng
them with the same force. What the
oa;oo MON uyaytaI uoc
more money and more men and they
might as well admit it. instead of
$4,000 it would take ct least 100000
Il month and they knew it, and what
was more they knew it would not do
to ask for such a sum, so their plan
was to proceed as quietly as possible
under the present system so thai the
Office men could hold their life Jobs,
and he noted that every government
man and their relatives were stand
ing in and helping out % the life job
grab, including the mar whose chal-
lenge he accepted when he addressed
the meeting-Mr. King--and q. form
er government man who as presiding
officer was doing most of the talking
in this meeting, referring to MI. Met
calf.
"And you talk about discriminating
the coyotes with sixty men at 500 to
800 a month without board. and fur
nish their OWE horses CT transporta-
ton. No wonder you have NO ex.
pert trappers at such figures. Elk
pert trappers car make better money
working for themselves, I notice
that you. Mr.. Metcalf. for instance,
know a whole lot about trapping.
yet l do not see you out on the trap
line working for that money" said
Mr.. Rranson.
And I'll tell you another thing
said Mr.. Branson, addressing himself
to Mr.. Metcalf, when you went be.
fore the legislature and helped put
lover this law for the state to particle
pate in government trapping you
ignored and defed the wishes Of the
stockmen of this county who are OPP
posed to it and in favor of the bounty
system. 1t may have been the wish
of the state bunch, but it was against
the wishes of those of this county
The discussion grew a little too
warm several times for Mr.. Metcalt
and he endeavored to terminate it,
especially limiting to Mr.. Branson
thai he was an outsider, etc, saving
he had volunteered to speak. Mr..
Branson retorted that he did not 60
there to speak and did not volunteer,
but was there in his capacity of a
newspaper man, yet since a govern
men man had bawled him out or the
start and dared him to speak, he had
accepted the challenge.
He would add in answer to the
statement that Nevada would never
pass a bounty law, that it would if
it had a lobby at Carson City on the
lines of the one headed by Mr.. Met
calf which put over the present law
1t remained for Steve Doutre to
finally take the wind out of Mr.. Ras-
mussen--the fifteen to one manly
asking him to explain his alleged
poisoning system. Mr.. Dontre is one
OF the most expert coyote prisoners
in the United States. He showed how
tHe pldl lOlIuWeu ny SONeTlIneHL
men merely placed the poison where
it was gotten away with by rodents.
Mr.. Rasmussen merely said to kill
horses and place poison in their car
casses, a plan that had been followed
tor 100 years, but he said it was the
--latest and best" His talk lacked
the merit or ordinary intelligence
and while he was speaking stockmen
commenced leaving the room.
Thereupon Mr.. Metcalf said he be-
lieved enough had been said and
without permitting a vote to be taken
asked that the subject be changed.
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