White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-28
GOVERNMENT TRAPPING
EXPOSED At MEETING
Continued from Page One.)

VtOntlnueu from rage OHe.t
ers in this county, shouted Mr..
Branson.
mot quite $1,000" said John H.
Eager, general manager of the com
pany, but we have over $500. We
have furnished gasoline to some trap
pers and right now we have eight
out, have boarded some and with our
losses and all we can say that it cost
us around $4,000 last year. l have
one objection to the bounty system,
which is that it has a tendency to
our ranch rands to neglect
their work to trap coyotes and get
the bounty. We do not want our men
that we are paying for work to pui
in our time trapping While We fur.
nish traps TO others We do not fur
nish them to our employees"
Mr.. Eager told of one of his com
pany's trappers who had averaged
100 coyotes a month through the fur
trapping season, and on the whole
private trappers had given satisfac
tory results. But he was not preju.
diced one way or the other ant
would put in his application right
then for five government men. Only
two had eyer operated OF his com
pany's ranges to his knowledge.
Frank Galloway said that in the
five years that he had been in the
ranch and cattle business at Curran'
creek there had been but n gov
eminent traprer there for a period o
six weeks, that at no time had HI
ever seen the coyotes so numerous al
they were this fall and he believed
that the only hope was in a bounty
which would make every rancher
every ranch hand, kid and Indian
trapper. In his bounch Of ranch sheeI
coyotes this fall had killed five o,
doing more damage than ever be
fore. His boys had poisoned sew
eral iron, on, bait AMI Il there hat
been 4 bounty they would have gon'
after them with more @oai and per
s%isterce. whereas since there wa!
nothing in 1t for them tI.ey had los
interest. He ridiculed a statemen
of Mr.. Rasmussen that sixty trap
pers could control the coyotes of Ne
vada and said they would not b.
more than enough for White Pine
county.
I'VE have Railroad valley nortf
and south a distance of $50 mile.
where there has never been a gov
eminent trapper," said Mr.. Gala.
way. "and after you have put your
sixty men in White Pine county
there would be none left for us. Mr.
Eager asks for five men
well. I'll make it three and lei
you have two said Mr.. Eager.
"All right continues Mr.. Gala
way, but that would be good only
as far as it goes. If we had a boun
ty Of two or three dollars instead OF
sixty trappers in this state We would
have 10000, and it will take 10000
before we can eXtarminate the
coyotes"
Mr.. Metcalf objected to the use OF
the word ''oXterminato."
we don't expect to exterminate
Them he said. There will always
be coyotes. whatever system we
adopt.
C. A. Bean. forest supervisor,
speaking from Wyoming experience
and observation, said the bounty
system had only one fault, which was
that all states did not join in it. II
that could be done it would be the
sound method" he said.
Mr.. Swallow claimed the Utah
bounty had practically bankrupted
the state and had to be suspended
because of there being no money to
pay it.
Il happen to know about the Utah
bounty" said Mr.. Branson. 1.-THE
Utah sheepmen asked for the bounty
to be placed at S4 and also asked that