Again, the courses of the roads and streams do not 
coincide, therefore a difference will be found here and 
there in the fence line as proposed. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION 
For convenience’s sake I shall speak of the Wind 
Cave National Park, as surveyed by the Government, 
as the ‘“‘Park’’; and the territory that has been selected by 
me for the National Game Reserve as the ‘‘Reserve.”’ 
With the exception of the expense and difficulty 
of fencing, and the probable lack of a sufficient water 
supply during such dry seasons as the present one, the 
Park is an ideal location for a game reserve. 
In order to secure permanent water it will be abso- 
lutely necessary to acquire several ranches lying just 
outside of the Park boundary. 
The Reserve has an area of diversified open and 
wooded country of about twenty square miles, or 16,800 
acres. The Park has sixteen and one-half square miles, 
or 10,522 acres, and is situated at the southern end of 
the Black Hills in southwestern South Dakota. 
On a basis of twenty acres per animal, which is 
the estimate for stock, this Reserve will support about 
eight hundred and eight animals. 
Hot Springs, the only town of importance, is about 
nine miles from the southeastern boundary line. 
THE TIMBERED REGION 
Is indicated on Map “B”’ by thickly dotted areas. About 
one-third of the Range is heavily timbered with western 
yellow pine. It is exceedingly open, and averages about 
forty feet in height. 
A strip of this timber, possibly a mile in width, 
occupies a series of hills and broken country the entire 
length, from north to south, in the western part of the 
Reserve. In the southeast corner is the second largest 
patch of timber, containing about three square miles. 
All along the northern boundary are scattered patches 
of timber in the draws and sides of the creeks and ravines, 
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