Photo by Dr. George W. Field ; 
WICHITA NATIONAL HERD 
COW AND CALF 
Relief was sought in Congress. At the request of 
the writer, Senator Dixon introduced a bill (Senate 
No. 5286) for the creation of the Snow Creek National 
Antelope Preserve. That bill provides for a slight en- 
largement of the boundaries, for the purpose of securing 
suitable grazing grounds for the herds of bison and ante- 
lope that the Preserve eventually will contain. It also 
provides for national control and maintenance. 
That bill is now before the Senate; but it is not 
expected that it can pass both houses of Congress in 
1912. On account of the fact that the bill calls for about 
15 square miles of good grazing grounds, all the wool- 
growers of Montana, backed by the National Wool- 
Growers’ Association, are actively opposing the bill. 
As usual, the sheepmen want all the grazing grounds of 
the entire West, for their own pocket purposes. The 
question now before the Senate is: Shall the 93,000,000 
people of the United States have 15 square miles of 
the public domain in Dawson County, Montana, as 
grazing grounds for the preservation of the antelope and 
American bison, or shall the sheepmen have the whole 
plains region for their personal benefit, without money 
or price? And this question is to be answered now, while 
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