Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-09-24 | Page 4 | Local News

The America Consuls In South Africa Afri-ca declare In their official reports that the horses used by the BOLTS are hurdler more docile and better knockabout knock-about animals than the cavalry mounts sent from Enuland for the use of the British troopers The lithe horses seem to be amazingly intelligent and tough they never get nervous under fire they stand anywhere without hitching or watching They live on the scantiest of food and are perpetual fxumples of patient endurance It will be remembered thatwhen tho war Ifrst broke out a distinguished Englishman familiar with affairs In South Africa d declared that It was a shame to send the bfiautlful horses from England that they would Invariably breakdown break-down that the thing todo Was to gather as manythousands the Boer ponies OH were needed that they would I be the mos qffectlvo Animals that could possibly I be obtained being acclimated accli-mated and having ail their lives been used to that rough country