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involve considerable expense. There has, however, been a great falling off 
in the annual amounts shipped since that date, in consequence of the great 
decrease of the buffalo throughout the region through which this road passes. 
Respecting the quantity of the products of the buffalo shipped over the 
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad during the years 1872, 1873, and 
1874, I have been favored with the following statement by the General Su- 
perintendent, Mr. C. F. Morse :— 
Statement of Buffalo Products shipped over the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad during a period of 
three years, from 1872 to 1875. 
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“ in 1874, rrr —“‘“‘“‘“C(“<“R;R;COOCNC COD 
Robes, in 1872, . : 4 ‘ : . 5 : : : No account. 
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Meat, in 1872, : : : 4 : : : ‘ : . No account. 
& in 1873, : z ‘ : : 3 : : : 1,617,600 Ibs. 
“ in 1874, Ot 
.Bones, in 1872, . : : : : 3 : : : : 1,135,300 Ibs. 
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From the above statement it appears that the number of hides shipped 
over this road during a period of three years was nearly half a million, 
while the robes, of which the number shipped in a single year only is given, 
would make the number exceed this sum. In addition to this number we 
have to add, for the number of buffaloes utilized or sold as meat, only the 
small number of from three to eight thousand a year more! 
In answer to inquiries respecting the shipment of buffalo products over 
the Union Pacific Railroad, I have been kindly informed by Mr. E. P. Vining, 
General Freight Agent, that no large amount of buffalo products has been 
received by this road, and that consequently no statistics of the business 
have been kept, as is the case with all the important branches of their 
business. These statistics respecting the shipments over the railroads relate 
only to the Kansas range of the buffalo, and hence refer merely to a limited 
district, and to the slaughter by white hunters alone. 
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