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BUFFALO CALF BEING NURSED liV A DOMESTIC COW. 

 Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake. 



seems to be a continuation of the Oquirre Range, which 

 lies west of Salt Lake City. An irregular mountain ridge 

 extends north and south, practically tlie entire length of 

 the island, its highest point being perhaps 4700 feet above 

 sea level, or 500 feet above the shore of the lake. West of 

 the ridge the coiuitry is very rough and precipitous, lint on 

 the eastern side there is a wide, level plain, extending north 

 and south. 



]Most of the island is covered with sage-brusli, but (pian- 

 tities of grass grow between, and the fact that it maintains 

 a thousand head of Hereford cattle. ])esides a hundred 

 horses and a herd of buffalo now num])ering forty-five, is 

 proof that there is a good deal of pasture. There is also 

 an abundance of water, supj^lied chiefly by springs, of 

 which there are more than twenty. Seventeen of them 

 are on the east side of the ridge. There is also a numlier 

 of very small ponds, none of them over one hundred yards 

 in length. 



There is very little timber on the island. It consists 

 chiefl}" of dwarf cedar, — a few acres here and there on the 



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