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Snake Hunter in Area This WeekPete French of the St. Louis Zoological Gardens “Snake House”1 passed through Murphysboro Saturday enroute to the Grand Can-i yon in Long Run. eight miles to the southwest of Murphysboro for | his annual snake hunt. jFrench “brings ’em back , alive1”, |I leaves some with the St. Louis zoo* i in Forest Park, and sells others toother big-city zoos. * j[ Jackson County has practically • every specie of snake in America ' excepting the Coral snake of the j west, and one or two specie in the , j far south-southwest. jThe Coral snake excepted, this | ( | conuty has all species of poisonous . j reptiles ,notably “rattlers” copper heads and cot tom mouths, the lat-ier of the mocasin family.OF ALL the snake dens discov-» I •ered in Illinois to date, that in the canyon country deep in Long Run I is said to produce more snakes j j 1 than any other county area.I French tries: to get here just as the i* ; warmth of Spring releases the j ' snakes for their summer migration’* |through the hills, or when they are ; returning to hibernate for the j 41 winter.f Some of the nation’s best rep-; tile specimen are caught there. | French wears tin pants, as a rule, and uses a stick and slip noose to I take the reptiles. The copper head is reported the most dangerous and the quiskest on the trigger.L This snake strikes silently, unlike i the rattler, or the cotton mouth.
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Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Sat, Apr 09, 1949
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