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divided the lion's share very equally between them. The 

 last-mentioned road penetrates the very heart of the 

 great Southern buffalo range. 



The Union Pacific has done less ; but it and the 

 smaller roads which touch the buffalo region, taken to- 

 gether, have carried about as much as either of the two 

 principal buffalo roads. 



Careful inquiry convinces me that the Atchison, 

 Topeka, and Santa Fe Eailroad has carried about one- 

 third of the entire buffalo product (exclusive of robes). 

 On this I found my estimate. 



BUFFALO PRODUCT. 



In the transportation of Indian tanned hides or robes, 

 the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Eailroad has but one 

 rival, and that -not a dangerous one, in this trade. 



It is even more difficult to get at the statistics in this 

 trade than of the other, -much of it being -clandestine. 



