The corrals are enclosed with Montana anchor fencing. 

 Six strands of heavy wire are stretched taut on posts set 

 one rod apart, and between each pair of posts four upright 

 wires are clamped upon the horizontal ones, making a stiff 

 and very tidy-looking fence. 



An interesting feature of the Lower Corral is a beaver 

 colony, which has dammed Rose Creek, splitting the stream 

 into several smaller ones which flow through the corral, 

 and give it natural irrigation. 



On return to JSIammoth Hot Springs it was learned 

 that on Sept. 16, Scout JNIcBride had seen twenty of the 

 wild buffalo in the valley of Pelican Creek. Other scouts 

 report signs of three calves, one of which was actually seen. 

 So the little remnant of the wild herd is probably increas- 

 ing slowly. 



The Secretary then went to JNIissoula, and thence to the 

 Flathead Indian Reservation. As the preparations for 

 the roundup were still incomplete, the trip was continued 

 to Kalispell, ^Montana, to inspect the Conrad herd. The 

 journey across the Flathead Valley was made on horse- 

 back, and for some distance after leaving Ravalli, the route 

 lay close to the southern border of our new buffalo range, 

 whose grassy slopes arose from the north or left-hand side 

 of the road. Numbers of cattle and horses could be seen 

 grazing on the range, wdiich seems an ideal one for the 

 Society's purpose. 



After a thirty-mile ride on horseback to Poison, at the 

 north end of the Reservation, the Secretary left his liorse 

 and crossed Flathead Lake in one of the small steamers 

 that make daily trips to Somers, which is about ten miles 

 by rail from Kalispell. 



The Conrad buffalo herd was found on its summer 

 range, an eight-hundred-acre hilly tract, pai-t grass and 

 part woodland, six miles west of Kalispell. A stout rail 

 fence encloses the range. All the animals, numbering 

 ninety-two head, including eighteen calves of 1908, were 

 in good condition. Asa herd they are very tractalile, and 

 as a rule can be rounded-up and handled much like domes- 

 tic cattle. Every fall they are driven sixteen miles along 

 the country roads, even through the streets of Kalispell, 

 to their winter range, where they roam over sixteen hun- 

 dred acres of grass and grain land until spring, when they 

 are driven back again. 



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