GAME ON RESERVE 
There are a few deer in the western part of the 
teserve. I saw six pairs of sharp-tail grouse and a 
pair of Bob-Whites, and heard others, but saw no young 
of either species. Ducks have been shot from the lake 
(13) and the pools on Cold Brook Creek. 
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY 
There are two ways of acquiring the needed property 
lying beyond the Park boundary: 
1. By purchase outright. 
2. By purchase of improvements only, and by 
Mountain Sheep Country in Cold Creek Canyon at Water Hole 14 
arrangement with the Land Department,—give the 
owner the right to take up a patent elsewhere. 
In most cases the only object in annexing these 
ranches is to secure the water, but since the ranches are 
valueless without water, the entire tract will have to be 
purchased, whether or not the adjoining land is required. 
On the August Samson ranch in the central eastern 
part of the Reserve, the water (at the time of my visit 
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