Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. September 3, 2014. During the last two months, vandals have
killed two cows, each on different weekends, polluted a spring and shot the
locks off the eight foot fence protecting a water tank up Hodges Canyon. They shot the “No Trespassing” signs. The shells seem to be from the same 12 gauge
shotguns. Ted Wilson the owner of the property said that in one day he found
158 shells. He has also found skeet
targets and skeet shells. The water tank
has been shot at and damaged so badly that a new cement box and manhole cover
had to be built, yet even then there were 15 shots fired into the new cover.
There were four cameras policing the area which were taken down and destroyed
and the sim cards removed.
Wilson requested a closure of the road that passes that
water system into the forest. He said
that the County Sheriff and Garden City officials have been working very hard
to patrol the area, and he visits the site every other day. Still they have broken into the water system and
contaminated it causing Wilson to have to drain and chlorinate it four times. Now the spring has a new cement barrel that
both Garden City and Ted Wilson paid for.
The vandals are shooting at that. Two of
the trail cams belonged to the sheriff and others to Wilson and have been
replaced. The water source is now pure again, but that
water has been a pure source of water since pioneer times. Wilson wants to lock the road at the cattle
guards.
Garden City has offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading
to the capture and arrest of the perpetrators.
Commissioner Bill Cox said that he was concerned and that
the County Attorney would meet with the Wilsons on Friday so that their
information could be presented to the State Attorney General for formal request
for a road closure. The County
Commissioners will take the group to the site to show the damage to the
property and the damage to the water source.
A road closure must be approved by the State.
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