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PLATE X 







BUFFALO lio.XES PHOTOGRAPHKn 75Y 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. 

 Lximsden estimated that these bones represented the remains of over 25,000 Buffalo 



