company with jNIessrs. Howard Douglas and Alexander 

 Ayotte, representatives of the Canadian Government, he 

 drove out six or eight miles to see the last of the Pablo buf- 

 faloes, which were found on the east side of the Pend 

 DOreille River. The Secretary counted two hundred and 

 fifty in one herd, and saw in the distance another group 

 W'hich must have numbered at least fifty. 



They were very suspicious, and though they permitted 

 us to drive reasonably near, the appearance of a man, 

 afoot or horseback, was enough to send them flying across 

 the prairie. 



Messrs. Douglas and Ayotte were present to superin- 

 tend the shipment of this splendid herd, and to accompany 

 it to its new home, Buffalo Park, Wainwright, Alberta. 

 This great preserve is one hundred miles southeast of Ed- 

 monton, on the Grand Trunk Pacific. It contains one 

 hundred and twenty-two thousand acres, enclosed with a 

 fourteen-strand, nine-gauge wire fence, seventy-three 

 miles in length. Three hundred of the buffalo now at Elk 

 Island Park M^ill also be shipped to Buffalo Park. Two 

 hundred miles west of Edmonton is a tract of five thou- 

 sand S(piare miles, known as Jasper Park, a portion of 

 which the Canadian Government will probably fence off 

 in 1910 for another buffalo range. 



Extensive and costly preparations were being made to 

 corral the Pablo buffaloes, but the Secretary on being in- 

 formed by JNIr. Pablo that the round-up could not take 

 place until at least two \^'eeks later, decided to leave at 

 once, in order that he might visit the other large herds 

 before it ^\'ds time to retiu'n to the East. The round-u]) 

 finally took place in November, but im fortunately the buf- 

 faloes escaped from the corral into ^^'hic]l they had at great 

 expense been driven, and it was then decided to make no 

 effort to recapture them imtil jNIay, 1909. 



On October 9th, the Secretary started for Salt Lake 

 City, to see the Dooly buffalo herd ^vhich roams Antelo])e 

 Island, in the Great Salt I^ake. In passing through 

 Butte, Montana, there was a delay of some hours, and the 

 opportunity was taken to visit the buff'aloes at Columbia 

 Gardens, four miles east of the city. 



There are four full-blooded buff'aloes in this herd, one 

 bull, two cows and a yearling heifer. Besides these there 



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