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Du Pont Smokeless CUon more first Averages 



in tournaments of one to five days' duration 

 than any other powder in America. Verily, 

 a good powder speaks for itself. 



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I saw in Recreation an account of a 

 band of buffalo being on the Muddy, in 

 Middle Park. I doubt it, for I have been 

 over that country several times and camped 

 on Muddy. It is a rough country, some of 

 it fallen timber and small parks. An old- 

 timer told me, 2 years ago; that he had 

 heard there were buffalo in the Park, but 

 he had never seen them. They could not 

 live on the Muddy in winter, snow being 

 too deep. I have walked across from the 

 West side of the Rabbit Ear range to East 

 side in Middle Park in l / 2 day. People 

 are going through there all the while and 

 could not help seeing 60 head of buffalo. 

 A. P. Waterbury, Sugar Loaf, Colo. 



Last winter was unusually severe; the 

 snow was deep and remained until spring. 

 As a consequence, jack rabbits were con- 

 siderably thinned out and cottontails al- 

 most exterminated. Coyotes are numerous 

 and destructive. They come close to the 

 house in the night, sometimes, indeed, 

 stealing chickens within 40 feet of the 

 door. A young calf was recently killed 

 and eaten within 200 yards of the house. 

 This has been a phenomenal season; more 

 cloudy weather than for many years, but 

 almost no rain. Ranchmen complain and 

 cattle suffer. 



W. H. N., Moffat, Colo. 



