18 BULLETIN 1^46, U. S. DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE 
The difficulties which have attended the establisliinent of a band 
of antelope on the AVichita fenced game preserve are detailed else- 
where in this bulletin. 
With the reintroduction of antelope on the Bison Range from the 
Xevada fawns, the placing of a small band on the Xiobrara Reserva- 
tion, and the additions to the band still existing on the Wind Cave 
Refuge by the Biological Survey, and those on the Wichita Game 
Refuge by the Forest Service, and in the Grand Canyon and in 
the Yellowstone Xational Parks by the Xational Park Service, the 
Federal Government is now attempting to build up herds of prong- 
horns in si;s: widely scattered localities within the limits of their 
former range. 
METHODS OF CAPTURING AND TRANSPLANTING ANTELOPE 
The following statement by E. R. Sans, supervisor of predatory- 
animal-control work of the Biological Survey in Xevada, who suc- 
cessfully directed the capture and rearing of the 40 young ante- 
lope in northwestern Xevada during the spring of 1924, contains so 
interesting and straightforward an account of the methods followed 
that it should enable anyone to repeat the operations successfully 
wherever any considerable number of antelope occur : 
In the northern part of Washoe County, where we captured the young 
antelope fawns, I estimate that there were from 1,0<30 to 2.000 antelope 
ranging during the year except in the winter months. During the fall of 192.3 
they began leaving this range the latter part of November and began returning 
the first of March, 1924. During December, January, and February they 
ranged in the High Rock Canyon country, about 40 or 50 miles south of their 
summer range. 
In a letter received early in May, 1925, Mr. Sans sums up his latest impres- 
sions concerning the antelope of this section as follows: The bunch at Last 
Chance, where we took the fawns last year, generally leave the plateau coun- 
try about the last of November and work both ways, north and south, part of 
them going down into Guano Valley along the Oregon border and, I believe, 
crossing into Oregon, and the others .«^uth down the High Rock close to the 
Black Rock Desert The large bunch that ranges during the summer east of 
(yuano Valley, in the high plateau country drift the same way, some going into 
Guano Valley and others into Virgin Valley and down toward the Black Rock 
Desert. 
On April IS, 1924, I visited the summer range, and while riding on horseback 
over one of our predatory-animal trap lines I saw antelope everywhere I looked 
in bunches of 3 to 9. The does were becoming heavy with fawns, and I 
looked for them to start dropping them about the first of May. In order to 
be ready when the first fawns were dropped, I selected three men to start 
working on May 1. They were to establish camp at the Last Chance Ranch, 
owned by the Hapgood brothers, located at the head of the antelope range. 
O. C. Wood, Leo Weilmunster, and True Hapgood, one of the owners of the 
ranch, made up our crew. They were to ride the range each day, watching 
the female antelope to learn when the first young were dropped. They were 
beginning to become discouraged when, on May 17, they discovered the first 
new-born fawn. On May 19 I arrived at the Hapgood Ranch accompanied 
