Mr. Brace pulled out early Monday morning and we left Boise 

 on Thursday afternoon, going by the way of Mountain Home and 

 across country to Grandview, a distance of seventy miles, where we 

 proposed to stop for the night. This town is in a valley of the 

 Snake and on the south bank of the river. A new iron bridge is 

 being built opposite the town, so we were obliged to cross five miles 

 below on the old cable ferry, known as Keith's Ferry. At Grand- 

 view we were surprised to find Brace and the teams. As this was 

 as far as he had gone — seventy miles — since Monday and that over 

 the best section of the road, with ninety-two miles yet to go, over 

 soft and boggy roads, we therefore concluded to take Mr. and 

 Mrs. Brace in the car, and by an early start on the following morn- 

 ing, make the ranch by night. This was a wise move, as we lost no 

 time inquiring the way, and both Mr. and Mrs. Brace rendered 

 valuable assistance in extracting the car out of seemingly hopeless 

 mud holes in boggy meadows, and the treacherous crossings of numer- 

 ous streams which, in most instances, on account of sott mud bot- 

 toms, had to be built up with sage brush, willows and rocks before 

 the car could venture across. There are no bridges in this part of 

 the country. We made a short halt at the Mud Flats shearing corral 

 and it soon became apparent that we were not only expected but also 

 our business fully known and understood. The subject of establish- 

 ing a game reserve seems to have been thoroughly discussed for some 

 two years and the very air seemed full of it. Numerous and embar- 

 rassing questions were asked, as to the intentions of the Government 

 and its future policy. The sheepmen, of course, are solidly against 

 any proposition that will debar or curtail the grazing of sheep, while 

 the cattlemen are strong for a Federal game reserve that will exclude 

 sheep but allow continuation of present conditions. Mr. Brace is a 

 leading factor in the latter case; it was he who noticed the steady 

 encroachment of the sheep into the cattle country and advised his 

 neighbors to take action, and now since we were on the ground, the 

 question was, "What does the Government propose to do in regard to 

 us, in case the reserve is established?" Similar questions were asked 

 by the sheepmen. It soon developed that every person we met not 

 only knew of our presence in the country but was fully acquainted 

 with the subject and had formed a set of questions which were impos- 

 sible for us to answer with any authority. Through these questions 

 we got a very clear idea of the general situation, i.e., these cattle- 

 men and settlers, located within the proposed reserve, would welcome 

 the creation of a reserve that would exclude the sheep and leave present 

 conditions as they are. I asked thm if they were willing to sign a 

 paper bearing the conditions under which they would favor and 

 support Federal protection. This was somewhat of a delicate under- 

 taking, as these men are very suspicious and reluctant about signing 

 anything that might perchance, in some way, militate against them; 

 therefore, the proposition was very simple in form, briefly stating 

 that they were in favor of establishing the proposed game reserve, 

 providing all existing rights and use of the range will continue under 



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