Show FENCE OF ELK HORNS Curious Use to Whicl Noble Antlers Are Put In past centuries vast herds of elk covered cov-ered the West Rapidly they became rarer and rarer Probably during the present century tho animal will become extinct Up to 1812 It maim found In New York State and later in Pennsylvania but it has been driven from place to place until many of tho regions where It onco roamed In vast herds knew it no moreS more-S rare Is It In California tilt the two or three email herds are aa well located UH herds of cattle Next t the moose the elk lu 1 the largest of tho deer family and ot all the tribe It lu tho most commanding and splendid example of big game Thoao who have hunted it In Montana that be lug at present tho buit locality have been amazed to find In certain localities vast numbers of horns forgetting that the wapiti regularly coats Its horns Most of the horns aro shed on the winto range and In tho vicinity of the Urc o River country Montana and the adjacent ada cent mountains thouHunds of such horn can be picked up or found in 1 stages of decay In some places oo thing that the observer not posted as to the actual facts of tho case might assume that there had been n general slaughter Hundreds of theso horns are Chipped all over thC country coun-try as trophies but In tho Montana towns they are used for n much moro common purpose Ono such Ic I fence In one of tho principal strcetfl If Llvlngolono Mont made entlreb o hundreds of wapiti horns dovetailed together so clotlY walt a per fact Ideal fence is the result ono calcu hated to attract widespread attention Tho hOn are not taken a ° some of the tourists tou-rists ouppose from the deep so represent lug tho destruction of the animal but Imvo been picked up on tho winter range nnd taken to the town or city for this specific spe-cific purpose In tho fence there arc 200 or SOU wapIti horns representing 1 anl main Tho horns are employed not only for fences but for chain four or five being Intorwovcn and forming a framework to tho seat and back plcturo frames are also made from thor and hundreds find I their way Into manufacturing districts where they are out up Into largo knife I handles and used In time manufacture of nporllng poods of various kinds Many aro also employed In the decoration of houaei 1 Ono of the famous hotoltj of Colorado took Its name ron tho antlers bearing in its room twine line examples of tho horn1 Scientific American |