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ANTELOPE ISLAND, GREAT SALT LAKE. 

 \ie\v from the ford by which the southeast corner of it is approached from Salt Lake City. 



are two cattaloes — one female, half buffalo and half black 

 polled Angus; and one male, three-fourths buffalo and 

 one-fourth black polled Angus. They have a range of 

 al)out three acres, and they are fed on grass and hay in the 

 summer, and on hay exclusively in the winter. All these 

 animals are the property of Ex-Senator W. A. Clark, who 

 lias loaned them to Columbia (xardens. 



At Salt Lake City the Secretary met INIr. John K. 

 Dooly, the owner of the Antelope Island buffaloes, and as 

 ]Mr, Dooly's guest paid a visit to the herd. The island is 

 about twenty miles northwest of Salt I^ake City, whence 

 it is approached by a fairly good carriage road, across a 

 wide stretch of Hat, alkaline country. The last four miles 

 of the drive to Antelope Island was through the lake it- 

 self, at a ford where the water was so shall()A\' that it barely 

 covered the horses' shoes. 



Antelope Island is about sixteen miles long, north and 

 south, and about fi\e miles wide, east and west, at its 

 widest ]:)oint. It contains between twenty-five and thirty 

 thousand acres, much oF it mountainous. The island itself 



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