ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 



Members of the Aiiierican Biso)i Society. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



We are pleased to report that after a year or more 

 of vain endeavor to get an express car to ship the six 

 head of buffalo donated by the Blue Mountain Forest 

 Association, finally, with the assistance of the Secretary 

 of the Interior, the Railroad Administration and the 

 Express Administration, and also the Forestry Dept., 

 and Biological Survey, the car was donated, and our 

 Secretary, Mr. M. S. Garretson, accompanied the bison 

 and saw them well established on the range. The 

 expense to the Society in this transaction was a total 

 cost of about $667. Of this we paid the Blue Mountain 

 Forest Association $417. This covered the cost of 

 maintaining the bison while they were awaiting ship- 

 ment, nearly a year, the crating, etc. Cost for at- 

 tendance, hay and incidental expenses outside of the 

 furnishing of the car hy the Forestry Department, $250. 



The President is pleased to announce that our 

 Treasurer, Major Clark Williams, who headed the Red 

 Cross in the field of battle in Europe, has returned 

 home and assumed his duties as Treasurer, and his 

 record is much to his own credit and the honor of the 

 Society. 



The Society has Ijeen presented by Mr. Chas. 

 Goodnight, of Goodnight, Texas, one of our Board of 

 Managers, with the films of an Indian buffalo hunt 

 staged by him at a large expense. He also paid $50 for 

 cutting these films down from seven reels to two reels. 

 This was all done and the films are now owned l^y the 

 association, and at any time that we give a lianquet, or 

 the opportmiity presents itself, they will be shown to 

 the mem])ers, l)ut will constitute for the Society in the 

 future, as near as it can l^e obtained now, an original 

 Indian l:>uffalo hunt with bows and arrows. A numlier 

 of books and valua])le relics have been ])resented to the 

 Society. These will be covered in tlie Secretpay's 

 report. 



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