the tariff on wool is so fearfully high that poor people 
must wear clothes of cotton or shoddy because they can- 
not afford to wear clothes made of wool! (This is the 
testimony of a reliable clothing merchant.) 
The entire area proposed by the Dixon Bill contains 
176 square miles, all but 15 miles of which are so wild, 
so eroded, and so cut up by Nature as to be absolutely 
worthless for agriculture, and good for nothing save a 
game preserve. As a game preserve, the region pro- 
posed by the Dixon Bill will make a very good one. 
Even to-day it contains a band of mountain sheep,— 
which is the best commentary on its rugged wildness. 
It also contains a good remnant of mule deer, white- 
tailed deer and antelope. 
At the next session of Congress the fate of the Snow 
Creek Antelope Preserve will be threshed out. The 
sheepmen will fight it to a finish. J now call upon all 
members of the American Bison Society to take this matter 
up next December, and urge upon their Senators and 
Representatives the desirability and the necessity of 
finishing this undertaking by passing Senate Bill No. 
5286 exactly as it stands, for the direct benefit of all the 
people of the United States. 
Shall three sheep-owners in Dawson County, Mon- 
tana, be allowed to dictate the policy of Congress regard- 
ing 15 square miles of buffalo grass that 1s now a part of 
the public domain, and is wanted for the preservation 
of samples of the wild-animal fauna that once inhabited 
the great plains? 
W:2 Tosa, 
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