BUFFALO CALF BEING NURSED BY A DOMESTIC COW. 

 Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake. 



seems to be a continuation of the Oquirre Range, which 

 Hes west of Salt Lake City. An irregular mountain ridge 

 extends north and south, practically the entire length of 

 the island, its highest point being perhaps 4700 feet aboA^e 

 sea level, or 500 feet above the shore of the lake. West of 

 the ridge the country is very rough and precipitous, but on 

 the eastern side there is a wide, level plain, extending north 

 and south. 



]Most of the island is covered with sage-brush, but quan- 

 tities of grass grow between, and the fact that it maintains 

 a thousand head of Hereford cattle, besides a hundred 

 horses and a herd of buffalo now numbering forty-five, is 

 proof that there is a good deal of pasture. There is also 

 an abundance of water, supplied chiefly by springs, of 

 which there are more than twenty. Seventeen of them 

 are on the east side of the ridge. There is also a number 

 of very small ponds, none of them over one hundred yards 

 in length. 



There is very little timber on the island. It consists 

 chiefly of dwarf cedar,— a few acres here and there on the 



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