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and from the best information that we are able to obtain there are only 

 four in the Territory, now located in Pawnee County and belonging 

 to Pawnee Bill. 



Very truly, yours, 



C. A. McBrian, Private Secretary. 



Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, 



Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. 



Territory of Oklahoma, Executive Department, 



Guthrie, March 22, 1902. 

 Dear Sir: Yours of March 12, asking this office for information 

 concerning the bison or buffalo in Oklahoma, received, and in reply 

 thereto I have to inform you that there are at the present time four 

 full-blooded buffalo or bison in Pawnee County, Okla., the only ones 

 in the Territory to the knowledge of this office. 

 Very truly, yours, 



C. A. McBrian, Private Secretary. 



Hon. Thomas Ryan, 



Acting Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. 



Note. — Since the receipt of the foregoing, the following additional data has been 

 received from the Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, District of Colum- 

 bia, through the Smithsonian Institution: 



Edenton, N. C, May 13, 1902. 

 My Dear Sir: I have -i full bloods with my show and 26 head of 

 buffalo on my buffalo ranch at Pawnee, Okla. It is my intention to 

 try to increase this herd. I know of no buffalo with travel shows 

 excepting those with Buffalo Bill and the one with Ring-ling- Bros., of 

 which you already have account. I am interested in the subject and 

 any information or service I can render, you have but to command me. 

 Trusting you will excuse my delay, I am, 

 Yours, most truly, 



G. W. Lillie (" Pawnee Bill")* 



Dr. Frank Baker, 



Superintendent National Zoological Pari', 



Washington, D. C. 



OREGON. 



State of Oregon, Executive Department, 



Salem, February IS, 1902. 

 Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt at the executive office 

 of yours of the 3d instant, transmitting copy of a resolution of the 

 United States Senate calling for information concerning bison in the 

 United States. 



In reply I have to say that no bison herds are to be found in Oregon. 

 With; great respect, I have the honor to be, 

 Very respectfully, 



T. T. Geer, Governor. 



Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, 



Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. 



