Secretary Fall was also seen and suggested that the Society try 

 to stock some of the great land grants in New Mexico with antelope 

 and promised his co-operation. He also expressed his approval of the 

 proposed antelope preserve in Idaho and thought we should get with 

 us the assistance of the local settlers. 



The petition for the establishment by the Government of an 

 antelope preserve in Idaho, originating with the settlers after material 

 revision by Dr. T. S. Palmer, of the Biological Survey, adapting the 

 same to the requirements of the law and of the Government, was 

 forwarded by your Society to the settlers, and after signature by a 

 large majority living within the proposed reserve, became a part of 

 the record. 



The report of your Secretary, Mr. Garretson, covers this subject 

 and his investigation in Idaho. The Society paid only his traveling 

 expenses. Contributions from Mr. Carl K. McFadden and Mr. William 

 P. Wharton to the treasurer of the Society made possible Mr. Garret- 

 son's trip. The Biological Survey paid the expenses of its represen- 

 tative, Mr. Fred M. Dille, who accompanied Mr. Garretson. 



We requested Mr. Garretson, in connection with our campaign 

 for the preservation of the antelope, to make a comprehensive census 

 of the antelope of the United States. Wliile his correspondence, in 

 taking the usual bison census is very extensive, the taking of the 

 antelope census required not less than 550 additional letters. 



This census, I believe, is the first census ever attempted of the 

 American antelope, and is especially interesting and valuable. Thanks 

 to the painstaking care of Mr. Garretson, it is as accurate as any 

 census can be made. 



To illustrate by one instance how necessary is our antelope cam- 

 paign, in one State a band of seven antelope was located and so re- 

 ported. As far as we could learn, these were the only antelope in 

 that State, but before the census was completed a confidential letter 

 was received that some hunters ( ? ) had gone out and run down with 

 an automobile all these antelope and totally exterminated this band 

 in one day. 



Mr. Horace M. Albright, Superintendent of the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, has made some suggestions to the Bison Society whereby 

 substantial service may be rendered in preserving and protecting the 

 antelope herd in the Yellowstone National Park. This matter is not 

 yet fully developed, and I merely mention it as a service that the 

 Society may possibly enter the coming year. 



It will be of great interest to our members to know that others 

 are actively assisting in the preservation of the antelope. I quote the 

 following extract from a recent letter. 



" In the summer of 1922 Mr. E. B. Brownell. of San Francisco, wrote to Dr. 

 Hornaday, proposing that steps should be taken to establish a herd of antelope 

 on the Tonto Plateau in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, immediately below El 

 Tovar Hotel. This proposal was transmitted to the United States Biological 

 Survey for an opinion, and from the beginning it was there reearded with favor. 

 Dr. Hornaday was exceedingly sceptical about the practicability of the scheme, 



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