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RECREA TION. 



That by camping on or near meadows and 

 herding their large bands of horses thereon, and 

 in many cases frightening and intimidating 

 women and children, these Indians retard settle- 

 ment and the natural development of the country, 

 and destroy an important natural food supply. 

 Signed by 



Andrea Delmue. 

 Ira Dodge. 

 John C. Auer. 

 John M. Van Dervort. 

 The above statement signed and sworn to be- 

 fore me, this 12th day of February, A. D. 1895. 



D. B. Budd, Notary Public, 

 [seal.] Big Piney, Wyoming. 



Marysvale, Wyo., Jan. 24, 1895. 



On or about the 27th of August, 1894, I saw 

 five or six lodges of Indians hunting in Jackson's 

 Hole. They claimed that they were from Ross 

 Fork and that they belonged to the Fort Hall 

 agency. I saw elk that had been killed by par- 

 ties supposed to be Indians, and all that had 

 been taken was the. skin, tongue and tusks. I 

 knew that the Indians had been in the same 

 country within a few days of the time I saw the 

 carcasses. The Indians were in here from the 

 1st of August, 1894, until the middle of Septem- 

 ber, to my certain knowledge, and I think that 

 from what I have seen that they did a greal deal 

 of damage to the game. 



John R. Carnes. 



Marysvale, Wyoming, Jan. 24, 1895. 



I understand that the Indian agent at Fort 

 Hall says that Indians from that reservation 

 were not hunting in Jackson's Hole last August. 

 The fact is that the Indians were here all through 

 August and until the 15th of September. They 

 had passes from the agents to visit the Crows 

 and Fort Waskakie Indians. They get these 

 passes from the agent, but do not go to the Crows 

 or Waskakies at all. They stay here and hunt, 

 the whole time, and slaughter game by the hun- 

 dreds, merely for the hides. The Indians from 

 Waskakie were here the 15th of May, lying on 

 the trail of the antelope where they come in 

 through the deep snow, over the mountains from 

 Green river, and slaughtering whole bands of 

 them. They do not use one-fourth of the meat, 

 but leave it to rot in the mountains. If any one 

 will come here while the Indians are here I will 

 show him carcasses, from one to 15 in a place, 

 killed by Indians and only the hides taken. 



Frank L. Petersen. 



Marysville, Wyoming, Feb. 3, 1895. 



I came in here on the 25th of May, 1894. At 

 that time I saw Indians on the Gros Ventre, in 

 Jackson's Hole, and during the summer I saw 

 them on every stream on the east side of the 

 Snake river, until the snow drove them out last 

 fall. I have found carcasses strewn over a ra- 

 dius of 50 miles. 



I know the Indians to be Bannocks, from Fort 

 Hall reservation in Idaho ; some of them Indian 

 policemen, who claim to come in here after the 

 Indians. I asked them when they were going 

 back, and they said " in about a month." 



J. C. Calhoun. 



Marysvale, Feb. 3, 1895. 



On the 25th of August, 1894, I saw seven 

 lodges of Fort Hall Indians with 150 head of 

 horses camped on Sheep creek, in Jackson's 

 Hole, where they killed three or four pack loads 

 ot hides. On August 27, I saw three lodges of 

 Bannocks camped at Fall creek, where they did 

 great damage to the elk, loading several horses 

 with grained skins. On September 17th, I saw 

 a large party of Bannocks on Fall creek with 

 several horses loaded with elk skins. I am posi- 

 tive that those Indians were all Bannocks from 

 Fort Hall. One was a policeman from Pocolala. 

 There was not a creek, from the National Park 

 line to Graves river, where the Indians did not 

 kill great numbers of elk, taking only the skins. 



Frank S. Wood. 



Corral, Idaho, Feb. 13, 1895. 



I notice in Recreation some discussion as to 

 the Indians hunting in the Jackson's Hole 

 country. In July and August last we were over- 

 run with these Indians. Thousands of ducks and 

 geese breed on the malad, and these red varmints 

 would place a half-dozen or so of their men on 

 each side of the stream with long willows in their 

 hands. Then others would wade up the creek, 

 and those on the banks would kill every bird that 

 was unable to fly. I have seen them with gunny 

 sacks full of the little things, not large enough to 

 be fit to eat. 



While this was going on the other men were 

 scouring the mountains for deer and elk, and the 

 squaws were begging at the ranches. 



E. G. Burnet. 



I saw Bannock Indians from Fort Hall, in 

 Jackson's Hole, in August, 1894. At Mr. 

 Carnes' ranch, about 10 of them ground their 

 knives for a hunt, and I saw these same Indians 

 coming back later with three or four horses 

 loaded down with hides and no meat. After- 

 ward two of these same Indians wanted to swap 

 buckskin for sugar at my place. 



Adolph Miller. 



Marysvale, Jackson's Hole, Jan. 25, 1895. 

 I saw two or three different outfits of Fort 

 Hall Indians here last summer. On or about 

 the 15th of August, I saw the first outfit, and 

 about the 25th I saw the others. 



James Lanigan. 



DUCKS, GEESE AND A WOLF. 

 O. D. Lyon. 



During our stay in the country, near Camp 

 Clarke, Neb., the game of this region has had 

 reason to know that its usual unmolested 

 quietude was at an end. My wife knows how to 

 cook game, and our table is seldom without a 

 roast of duck, goose, grouse or rabbit. 



The North Platte river supplies water for 

 numerous irrigating canals and reservoirs, which 

 afford excellent and inviting places for the migra- 

 tory fowls of the northwest, so that here is fair 

 shooting during the entire year ; and in the 

 spring and fall seasons it is simply immense. 



