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Show DUrflLO IIE7IDS r;07 nOUNTED Those iii 'E Jen Antelope Islaid I Lie Speciniens, Says f flxiiermist. The beads of the four big buffalo bulla shot by Messrs. Myton, Lindsay, Collins and-others on" Antelope Island three weeks ago, are now fit rnaments for the den or dining-room of whatsoever what-soever millionaire may take a fancy to one. The heads and skins were purchased by E. Mehesy, Jr.. the Salt Lake furrier, fur-rier, and to A. J. Wrathall, taxidermist, they were sent immediately the animals ani-mals were skinned and decapitated. Since then Mr. Wrathall and assistants have been busily engaged mounting the heads. Although the fellow known as the "old bull" was expected to have made the finest mount, - one of the younger bulls baa turned out to be almost al-most as fine a specimen of the bison. Mr. Wrathall says he has seldom handled finer specimens of buffalo, the heads being perfect. One of them will be ahlpped in a few days to Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, CaL, where Mr. Mehesy has a carlo ca-rlo store. The other three will be hung upon the walls of the Salt Lake store. "Tou would scarcely believe that the hide of a buffalo in places is fully two inches thick." said Mr. Wrathall, "but such Is the case. The hide of the old bull around the head and. neck was fully two ' inches thick and before mounting the head I had to scrape it down till it waa only half an Inch thick. I took several bullets out of the carcasses of each of the bulls. Some of them were soft-nose bullets, which had not penetrated deep enough to do them any damage. All the bulls were simply full of blrdshot. I do not believe there was a square foot of hide that did not contain blrdshot. Tou see gunners going out to shoot evidently evi-dently thought It waa a free field and a fair mark to blaze away at. The) only damage such shooting could have done these old fellows was to sting them a bit and put them on the run till the smarting ceased. "Altogether this is as fine a quartette quar-tette of heads as I ever saw." " Buffalo heads are quoted at $1000 per single head, with 15 and 10 per cent off In quarter-dozen lots. Buffalo robes raised In Utah may be worn by gentlemen gentle-men with $150 to $350 loose change In their Kentucky jeans. |