This is one of the finest game preserves in the country, with more 

 than four hundred bison, several hundred elk, two kinds of deer, 

 and some mountain sheep which were introduced last winter. In 

 addition, there are Chinese pheasants, sharp-tailed grouse and many 

 ducks which frequent the place. We took this matter up with one 

 of our Board of Managers, Mr. George D. Pratt, who very generously 

 has advanced the Society $600 for this purpose. The total amount 

 was S621.50, the $21.50 being taken from the Society's treasury. 

 Mr. Pratt advanced the money until such time as the Government can 

 appropriate the money from the General Fund for the purpose, and 

 the deed for the land has been taken in Mr. Pratt's name. This 

 transaction has been entirely completed. 



During the past year a number of gifts have been made to the 

 Society. When Mr. Blazier was in New York last year after deliver- 

 ing the ten head of antelope at the Wichita Preserve, I took him to 

 the American Museum of Natural History and we discovered that 

 the antelope group there contained no antelope fawn. Upon inquiry 

 we also found that there was no antelope fawn in the Colorado Museum 

 of Natural History group. Mr. Blazier at that time promised to send 

 us at least two mountable skins of antelope fawns. Your officers 

 decided to give on of these skins to the American Museum of Natural 

 History and one to the Colorado Museum at Denver. A third skin 

 has been received from Mr. Blazier and we recommend that it be 

 offered to the National Museum at Washington, D. C. 



By the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Mr. G. Daniels, Chief Com- 

 missioner, we were presented with a film of an antelope hunt. This 

 film has been loaned to Mr. Ezra Meeker, as he may wish to depict 

 part of it in his picture "The Oregon Trail." 



We have also been presented by Mr. Romy Ford with a painting, 

 executed by himself, of a buffalo bull. 



We have further been presented with an old buffalo gun by 

 Jesse Brown of Sturgis, South Dakota, through Mr. William F. Hooker 

 of the Erie Magazine and a veteran of the Plains. 



The negatives of the buffalo film presented to us by Mr. Charles 

 Goodnight have, with the consent of the Board of Managers, been 

 loaned to Mr. Ezra Meeker for reproduction in his projected film 

 of "The Oregon Trail." To this loan we have also received the 

 consent of Mr. Goodnight. 



Concerning this film of "The Oregon Trail," Mr. Meeker has 

 requested the assistance of the Society in securing government co- 

 operation in the making of films of wild game in the government 

 preserves. I think it is important that the Society's influence and 

 co-operation be extended to all such men as Mr. Meeker who seek 

 to make films of wild life on the game preserves, not only for their 

 present interests but for their historical and educational value. 



Your President went to the National Capitol in September, 1921, 

 to attend the annual meeting of the National Parks Association and 

 was fortunate in meeting President Harding and speaking to him 

 about saving the antelope, in which he was very much interested. 



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