Show 1 i t j i Flathead Herd of Buffalo Thriving riving jk I i iI s i I Reservation Is Near Neat Missoula Mont t. t T. T j J T I I Ift I. I ft r 4 II M st S i. i t- t 7 4 1 4 k Pees S 1 L Ill tk ii z i I I I S Ill I I I S S S e p i Herd Hord on en Flathead Bison Reserve top ton Andrew R. R Hodges and the king of the herd I Sp Special to The Herald Missoula Mont April 5 Tt It Tt was In 1904 that the American Bison society wa was form formed cd with such men as rheo Theodore ore Roosevelt an and Earl Oral Gray governor general of Canada Ono thins thing accomplished pushed l b by this society was as the Flathead Flat Flat- head hond Bison reserve This reserve Is located on the Flathead Indian reservation reser reser- and anti consists of or ISOO acres of land band which Is 18 in over every overy way adapted to the buffalo and his nee needs s. s The Tue Flat Flat- head reser a reservation lion 11 lies es a about bon t twenty five tr i miles northwest Ct of Missoula The mild climate and low altitude o of the tIle reservation go 10 far toward making this an l ideal eal location for the buffalo Andrew R. R Hodges Hodge superintendent of or orthe the reserve is IsOr Or very verb much pleased d with the splendid wa way in which the buffalo haye prospered prospere He lie boll believes eves that there thoro thorois is not a better place in the United l States for the bison as there has been no necessity for cr feeding during the winter months and anti th the increase In IT num num- bers hers has been very satisfactory On December J i 1910 th there were 19 mali males malcH s sand and 32 2 2 females on the re reserve er e On December De De- De- De comber cember 1 1 1912 1112 this number had been Increased to 37 males and 46 16 females Many lan people l believe that the American Amen Ameri can buffalo buHalo can be made a commercial proposition Ills HIs wool is I claimed to h be stronger and anti more durable dur- dur able abi than that of or the sheep Is shed shell each spring in great masses mu and it Is 13 conSIdered considered con eon possible to shear the big ig fellows without harming them In any wo way |