Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — Kill a Million Prairie Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Kill a Million Prairie Dogs.

Complete extermination of what was considered one of the largest prairie teg "towns” in the West has been reports to the predatory animal inspector's office at Phoenix, Aria., by the Chlrlcahua Cattle company of Cochuise county, southeastern Arlsona. More than 1.000,000 prairie dogs were estimated to have lived on the company's ranch of more .than 80,000 acres until the management started an offensive campaign against them. Now their vast honeycombs of underground burrows tee utterly deserted, the company reported.