550 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



hoped to introduce elk at one or two points in Arizona, and through 

 the Order of Elks or otherwise an effort will be made to increase the 

 herd of elk in the Wichita Game Preserve. These measures are part 

 of a plan to restock the Rocky Mountain States with elk. The pres- 

 ervation of the antelope is one of the most difficult problems pre- 

 sented. A careful survey of the condition of antelope will be made 

 in two States in the Northwest, Idaho and Oregon, and three in the 

 Southwest, Texas, Colorado, and Kansas, in order to ascertain what 

 can be done to preserve from extinction this valuable and attrac- 

 tive species, the only antelope of the Western Hemisphere. The 

 transfer of big game from points of comparative abundance to suit- 

 able localities where it is wanting will be made a special feature of 

 the work of the coming year. 



