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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ONE OF THE GORGES IN THE MOUNTAINS. 

 The scrub growth in these gorges will provide splendid shelter in the winter for the Bison i 



which were strange, flying in all directions. 

 There are a number of quail in the range, and 

 should increase, as food is abundant. The 

 miners and woodsmen have all kinds of bear, 

 wolf and panther experiences to relate, and 

 if these animals were as abundant as they 

 say, the calves would have very little show 

 for their lives. The fence is nearly fifteen 

 miles around, and encloses 6,200 acres of the 

 best of the valley and the mountains on the 

 western side. Four rangers will police the 

 range at all hours, and the dangers from 

 forest fires and breaks in the wires can be 

 detected and reported with dispatch, as tele- 

 phone boxes will be placed at each of the 

 five range gates. Mr. Rush gives his entire 

 time to the bison, and Mr. W. R. Mattoon. 

 Acting Forest Supervisor, is in charge of 

 the construction and working of the station. 



It would be churlish and a neglect un- 

 pardonable not to award to Mr. Mitchell 

 praise for the admirable manner in which 

 the details of the transportation were executed. 

 In every instance, his knowledge of railroad 

 methods and his tireless energy overcame ob- 

 stacles which would have meant hardship and 

 perhaps death to some of the bison, and 

 their safe arrival at Cache was due absolutely 

 to his splendid work. The people of Okla- 

 homa are enthusiastic over the Reserve, and 

 are duly grateful to the New York Zoological 

 Society for having thus established, in the 

 finest portion of the great southern bison 

 range, a herd which will soon increase to 

 grand proportions, and play its part in the 

 permanent preservation of the great American 

 bison. 



