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how common they were at that time, and who are familiar 

 with the durability of the "Buffalo" hide and fur, wonder 

 where they have all gone. No one dreamed forty years 

 ago that the time would ever come when a "Buffalo" skin 

 would be a curiosity, and a mounted * ' Buffalo ' ' head would 

 be worth from two hundred and fifty to a thousand dol- 

 lars ; but that is the condition of things today. 



When we consider that there is really nothing to take 

 the place of the "Buffalo" skin for warmth or service, as 

 well as the food value of the species, it seems a pity that 

 the North-West Breeding Company, organized in 1886, to 

 interbreed the Buffalo with selected native cattle, did not 

 succeed in their undertaking. They appear to have made 

 as complete a failure as the Buffalo Wool Company, 

 formed in Winnipeg, in 1832, to weave the hair of the 

 Bison into cloth. 



KOCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. 



