Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — Wild Geese Delay Trains. [ARTICLE]

Wild Geese Delay Trains.

Wild geese congregating along tlie right of way of the Nevada, California and Eastern railroad running out of this city in the last week have interfered seriously with the operation of trains. So numerous are, the birds that several times it has been almost necessary to stop the trains that the birds might not be run Over. The engineer has hastened their flight by often blowing the whistle. When the great flocks of geese rise from the track the beating of their wings can be heard distinctly several miles away. The geese have been feeding in neighboring grain fields and along the marshes of Klamath lake. The lack of sand on the marshes, which the geese require as an aid to digestion, is reported to sportsmen to have driven them to the railroad, where sand is used as ballast. —Lakeview (Ore.) Dispatch to the Portland Oregonian.