The Last of the Buffalo 



C. J. Jones, of Garden City, 

 Kan., which included about 

 fifty animals, captured 

 and reared by himself, 

 and the Bedson herd 

 „^^ of over eighty, pur- 

 P" ' chased in Manitoba. 

 The Jones herd at one 

 time consisted of about 

 one hundred and fifty 

 head. Next came that of 

 Charles Allard and Michel 

 Pablo, of the Flat Head 

 Agency in Montana, 

 which in 1888 numbered 

 thirty-five, and has now 

 increased to about ninety. 

 Mr. Jones's herd has been 

 broken up ; and he now 

 retains only about forty- 

 five head, of which fif- 

 teen are breeding cows. 

 He tells me that within 

 the past year or two he 

 has sold over sixty pure 

 buffalo, and that nearly 

 as many more have died 

 through injuries received in 

 transporting them by rail. 

 Jones is the only individual who 

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