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lope now remaining wild in the Canadian Northwest is less 

 than 1,500 head. The fierce winters of 1906 and 1907 de- 

 stroyed a very large number of antelopes then living. 



In 1914, Prof. Edward Prince, of Canada, said: "In Can- 

 ada the antelope has been decreasing very rapidly; but if 

 effective measures can be devised, there still is hope that 

 we may save it for the Dominion .... The real cause of the 

 decline of the antelope is the insatiable greed for heads as 

 trophies, in sportsmen's homes and in social clubs. The 

 prong-horned antelope head is a very beautiful trophy, and 

 realizes quite a high figure in the stores of western taxider- 

 mists. The high prices paid for prong-horned antelope 

 heads stimulates every pot-hunter in the West to lose no 

 opportunity of slaying any specimens of the antelope that 

 may appear, and the poor creatures are given no quarter, 

 but are in constant danger of being shot .... It is a mis- 

 take to think that ample space cannot be provided for these 

 animals in our vast territories of Saskatchewan, Alberta 

 and of the north." (Rod and Gun in Canada, April, 1914.) 



Prof. Prince urged that federal action should be taken, 

 by both the United States and Canada, to form antelope 

 preserves on both sides of the international boundary, and 

 to absolutely prohibit all further killing. This suggestion 

 was unanimously endorsed by the North American Fish and 

 Game Protective Association in the year 1914. 



In February, 1913, Capt. John B. Jenkinson, of the Can- 

 adian Rifle Brigade, proposed a series of four antelope 

 ranges near Medicine Hat, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 two to be situated on Seven Persons Creek, one on Chin 

 Coulee, and one of very large size on the southern bank of 

 the Saskatchewan River, about thirty miles north of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway. The existing range apparently 

 coincides with the range proposal marked "C," on Chin 

 Coulee, as indicated on the map accompanying our letter 

 from Capt. Jenkinson, dated February 17, 1913. 



In January, 1915, Mr. Maxwell Graham, of the Dominion 

 Parks Branch of the Canada Civil Service, was authorized 



