PLATE X 
BUFFALO BONES PHOTOGRAPHED BY MR. HUGH LUMSDEN, C.E., 
AUGUST 9, 1890 
This is probably the largest accumulation of buffalo bones ever made in Canada. 
They were piled along the siding just then constructed at Saskatoon. The piles 
were about eight feet wide and eight feet high, the skulls being built up on the out- 
side and all broken skulls and other bones thrown into the centre 
The bones were gathered by Indians and half-breeds from a radius of, say, 12 or 15 
miles around that point. They were sold at from $5.00 to $7.00 per ton to buyers 
from Minneapolis, U. S., and were used for the manufacture of bone charcoal. Mr. 
Lumsden estimated that these bones represented the remains of over 25,000 Buffalo 
