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Boys (and some a little older) will be boys, catching gophers (now endangered?).

Walter Farwell  (View posts) Posted: 4 Jan 2002 9:37PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Adle - to - Zach
FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 15, l908. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS meeting, May 5, l908.--The following claims for gopher bounty were allowed:

Adle, Carl...$3.10; Ambler, Carl....20; Anderson, H...$5.90; Antrim, Alva...1.70

Baker, John...$7.10; Baker, Lawrence...$0.50; Ballinger, Chas...$3.40; Barr, W.D...10.10; Bassinger, Nye...3.60; Beam, Leslie...2.40; Beaston, C.C...3.00; Bell, Albert...60; Benedict, Lester...4.60; Benson, Maynard...10; Bobbitt, Irvin...1.30; Boone, Verne...4.90; Booten, Grant...90; Bopp, Myrl...90

Carl, Oscar...1.70; Carman, Sol...$10.80; Cleland, Victor...1.40; Comingore, Ross...3.50; Cook, M..A....1.10; Cowles, J.H...10.20; Cox, Chas...30; Crowell, Arthur...1.50; Crowell, Newland...1.10; Crozier, Carl...1.20

Dahlgren, Walter...1.90; DeFreece, Ival...1.30; Donaldson, N.B....1.10; Dowdy, Ray...40; Driever, W.A...$2.70

Estes, Buren...$0.90

Farwell, Clyde R...$1.80; Fletcher, Paul...$0.90; Fletcher, W.D...$6.80; Focht, Fred...1.00

Garst, Ray...$1.40; Gaylord, Lewis...1.30; Gaylord, M.L...4.10; Gilbert, Geo...90; Graham, Thos...20; Grape, A.R...1.80; Griffin, Vern...2.20

Hailar, Fred...$3.20; Haning, Frees...$2.40; Hanson, Hubert...50; Hanson, Wm...10; Hatten, Forrest...1.00; Hatten, T.C...2.40; Hayes, Berne...2.90; Hiatt, A.G...9.80; Hiatt, J.S...90; Hickey, David...70; Hickey, Howard...50; Homan, Homer...2.60; Hopkins, Harley...40; Howard, D.L...1.20; Howe, Jim...20; Hudson, Roy...11.70

Jones, Guy...1.10; Jones, Ralph...2.40; Jorgensen, Fred...$3.00; Judd, Ira...2.50

Kennedy, Clint...$6.50; Kesterson, Rock...$1.70

Laird, Raymond...1.30; Lesley, Claude...$1.90; Liggett, Gerald...2.40; Lutz, Everett...2.50

Martin, Lyle...$2.40; Martin, Orval...30; McCluskey, Fred...$1.30;McIntyre, A.M...1.40; McMahon, Thos...1.20; Means, Bud...1.10; Miller, Joe...1.10; Mitchell, Samuel...$1.70; Moomaw, Herman...1.10; Moore, Victor...60; Morse, Fred C...1.80

Noblett, Wayne...$2.80; Nordstadt, James...$15.40

Otte, Harold...$0.80

Peak, W.F...$2.00; Proctor, Riley...$0.80

Rader, Geo...$4.40; Read, Sydney...30; Reeves, B...70; Ruse, Sanford...70


Septka, Harold...$3.20; Shannon, Sydney...$0.20; Shull, Bernal...1.50; Smith, J.M...$0.90; Smith, Robert...4.50

Travis, Lennie...$3.00

Wadhams, Bert...$2.10; Williams, Clarence...4.30; Wilson, W.H...60

York, W.S...$0.50

Zack, Clifford...$1.10

N.B.: The most anyone received was $15.40 (James Nordstadt). Most of these gophers probably would have been those now declared on the "Endangered List"--those which were unique to the loess bluffs of western Iowa. It would appear they received 10 cents for each gopher trapped.--W.F.

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