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15. Clyde L. Grow, reservoir superintendent of the Reclamation Service, 

 wrote from Engle, N. Mex., on September 12, 1924, reporting between 50 and 

 75 antelope on the east side of the Elephant Butte Reservoir, in the Cristobal 

 Mountains, in eastern Sierra County. He added that they were fed during 

 the deep snow all the preceding winter by the Victoria Land & Cattle Co. 

 and are in good condition. They range to the vicinity of Engle, where they 

 are sometimes seen by passengers on the Santa Fe Railroad trains. In 1883 

 the writer had the opportunity to observe personally a very considerable 

 number of antelope ranging the plains about Engle, particularly to the east 

 and north. The proprietor of the single hotel and general store there at 

 that time kept a pack of greyhounds which he fed on antelope meat. His 

 sole amusement in this isolated place was to drive out with a buckboard 

 on the open plains, accompanied by his greyhounds, until he found a band 

 of antelope, when the greyhounds were sent in pursuit while he followed 

 until the dogs had pulled down and killed one or more of the animals, which 

 he carried back for clog food. 



16. A band of 56 antelope was reported to be ranging between White 

 Sands and the Organ and San Andres Mountains, in Socorro and Dona Ana 

 Counties. 



17. In southwestern Otero County 90 antelope are reported by Oliver Lee, 

 manager of the Sacramento Land & Cattle Co., and others. 



18. A band of 25 ranges about the headwaters of the Felix River, in 

 southwestern Chaves County. 



19. The " L. E." pastures in eastern Chaves County are occupied by a band 

 of 15. 



20. H. E. Crosby, of Kenna, reports 40 antelope living in the pastures of 

 the Crosby ranch in eastern Chaves County. 



21. A band of 30 is reported ranging on the Littlefield ranch, on the Staked 

 Plains, in central Roosevelt County. 



22. In northeastern Lea and southeastern Roosevelt Counties 45 antelope 

 are reported ranging on Bakers Flats and across into adjacent parts of Texas. 

 A small band, the number not specified but reported to have been living in 

 northern Lea County for several years, has raised no fawns, owing to the 

 depredations of predatory animals. In the spring of 1923, following a co- 

 operative campaign against these destructive pests by the Biological Survey 

 and the State, a number of fawns survived and this herd may now increase. 



23. A band of 35 antelope is reported in western Lea County. 



24. There is a band of 10 near Cow Springs, in southern grant County, 

 find one of 22 on the Antelope Plains of western Luna County. 



25. A band of 20 is reported as ranging in the San Luis Valley, in Hidalgo 

 County. 



26. A band of 7 is in southwestern Luna County. 



27. A band of 7 is reported also in the Juniper pastures, Animas Valley, 

 in Hidalgo County. 



28. In 1922 a band of 12 was reported in Playas Valley, in Hidalgo County. 



29. About 40 antelope range in extreme southeastern Hidalgo County, some 

 of which cross into the adjacent part of northwestern Chihuahua. 



30. Twenty antelope range from southern Otero County south into Texas. 



31. About 50 antelope occur in San Simon Range, in southern Lea County. 



NORTH DAKOTA 



Antelope have almost disappeared from North Dakota. The remaining herds 

 now number only five and aggregate 225 animals. Their future appears to 

 be extremely doubtful unless a game preserve can be established wherein 

 they may be safeguarded. The information concerning antelope in North 

 Dakota has been obtained by H. L. Rice, of the North Dakota State Game Com- 

 mission, and R. Scott Zimmerman, in charge of rodent-control work in the 

 State for the Biological Survey. 



The distribution of the herds is approximately as follows (fig. 12) : 



1. In September, 1924, <;<» antelope were reported as ranging from north- 



rn Dunn County Into the adjacent pari of McKenzie County. 



2. A band "f '•) was reported in September, 1924, in southwestern MeKeiizie 

 ' kmnty. 



