| Show 1 r TO SAVE THE AMERICAN BS BISON N i Jon Jones M Makes ke a Statement About the Bin Now Before Telling Why the Go Government Should hould Take Steps to Prevent the of I ThIs Monarch of the Western Plain About th thirty yam leaN ago aro I moved to the UtI frontier I 1 WI was poor and It became necessary for tor toe me to join tM the akin IkIn hunt hunter fiN er I wu a good shot and teen became an expert I hired myself out to a corn oom puny pan of at farmers farmen to tG shoot down buffaloes at t fifty net cents I wu was a good hand at this bloody trade trad ud and my lasses made mad money me up the animal that tUt I shot sad their bid hide at t I esek I raised 1 that the work fork was creel and aDd Wi wilted td and U I many aU a time as I stood aid d drio into lato the dying a Ig eyes or of th the greet t monarch of tM plain and ad is their grain grou I 1 felt like swearing eating off ott Ute the MI Next morning I would be a awakened by b the be crack track crack or of U the ride an all over the plain and Ind con concluding that the work of would trOt not be d over fifteen min miD ute I an all by my III unapt 11 effort eltor I 1 would I again join tIM the chase abut J while we were 11 killing I ot of th the noble DObl animals each b year ar I made mad up my mind that I would one day atone aloM for lor my by rescuing a few ot of the herding t them nl and pro protesting testing theta a as belli beal I might bP be able abl This 1 have done OUt on the Western I plains plain the cow eow mm men and the ranchers will 11 tell t you OU how much of an fore effort ha hse ben n necessary IK ury In order that a few of Ih the remaining buffaloes might survive u up to the present lam In ton now to liP see It If Ih the American people ate aN rl ready d to keep their faith with 11 tia bison all as they k kept It it II with the Indian n and I to Ih the t animal In U tl t world a small portion of tl a hundreds of millions of acres anel of the barren barn lands lande that art are useless for tor anything else When hill Ih the rector alor brought tutu exist the Ihl nl of North Amer 1 Ice ft It its raging storms howling nn and made I Ith th t hI Ih the I after and the grass are but scant tnt h haa he aa asu Int nee tia loa sway It animal anima In the world perfected for Cor II I Ing American bleen n No doubt It took untold ogee to bring up this wonderful animal and to tit fit him for t In his hil peculiar home hORl How Itow dreadful then I is It to 10 that I IV JU through the cupidity and of DC mankind millions of 1011 have bave been In a short bort 1 most exterminated 1 now HOW BISON Any oA one who has hap seen Been a herd of cat tie knows know they Ih all over the Iho cropping a m of gnu 11 here ud and there and tramping town down more mort than Utan they saL at they bl bite off at only the p portion of the gross cra which hleb bean bearl the reed aniS and afterward rt re return turn tura to eat It nearer the root But Bul a herd berd of bison line up al like ilkI pal 01 eI diets about eight feet apart Ea Each to forward ard seed ed and andu grass u hi he JON but leaving between himself lf A and Ills 1111 n neighbor o 0 trip strip of four foul feet t of grew whit serves h by the neat year to tod seed d the land over which hleb be has bl eAten 10 eh year the plains over which the roamed were covered wI luxuriant grasses 1111 Today aft y years of cattle pasturage Utu e It requires Jut jad take tN as man many acne of land to support an animal as al It former formerly ly Ir did Id Idear Year ear after year H It has hili been n demon demonstrated that the h of tate fate I is against our native range cattle rf re Increasing In creasing p I is decreasing and a larger lareu percentage or of ii a cornea annual annually ly Jy to 10 our cattle at I gratis Texas fever I Ial le leu u al fatal as al f ever while tuberculosis hRS has increased aI hll an alarming rate rat In the tat lut decade and Ih the leg and abd the mange An are so fIO destructive that many animals h d not die In the tb summer and ancl fall an are all pit H by the dl dis disease ease that thai they perish In the winter TM Th hunch and twI I annual grasses of Ih hr plums hlll haft heretofore produced Ih the bulk of our ur meat Th These have hat 11 al almost most It and sheds and Ind obnoxious plants ba have sprung up Instead tn td to take k Why such ucb rapid changes han Only a few years ago million of on these the vast plains Today a comparatively small number or of native cattle to til fill When hen n nature tur 1 re H ought do well to hatt I and COO i her Turn to tb bison what do we find findAn An animal perfectly trained to take taker sr r or of b his environment III Ills instinct that ot of the b for ages be himself wham hire th the cattle attle I ot of the are aN dying I 1 have hAn spoken of hi his habit of leaving geed eed gran r There U no waste Walt gram left on the tour four feet swath which the animal cuts In feeding The herd berd rise at dawn and aDd CI to graze When filled they ther tart start for t rail trall led usually b ban by byan an old cow who gives hel tb the signal nal for Cot starting by bJ sounding a grunt not lIot un unlike unlike like that of a hog only much louder The remainder of the herd berd drop In W hh d following exactly In her footprints until they reich each the path which leads them to their drinking place This path never Dever a twelve Inches In width It N It the a 8 pita pate along which the an clera of these buffalo have hav traveled for lor countless age PUBLIC BENEFACTORS DE When time III sal lake or stream is II reached tb the 1 step In fill them themselves 1 selves and return to the banks bank h instead or of fingering In the water arid ad p polluting it II all a domestic cattle do Thus Thu by keeping I to tint n track Irack they hay have saved tb the grass II over 1 which the cattis struggle to water wlter and the they have kept tilt the water pure and fresh frh After resting I an hour hur or 01 so o they wend their way wa over overa a x traits for 01 mil miles and IDd miles I without cutting a blade of the gran which U II so I for their subsist subsistence I ence If the man who causes two blade bladl of grass to grow where wheN only one hat hll grown ron Is I a to 10 the race I how much more mON is II the buffalo a bent bene tutor factor who ho preserves thousands thou of blades that other animal Iy destroy d The buffalo never yields to disuse he is II elean la in his bl and andin in ID consequence always drinks pure PUN wit wat water er ate tl dean clean fresh grass 1 does dOlI not be besmear smear himself with filth and nd never from any of oC he heskin t i skin diseases common to domestic or His m thick ud and the pantalets which over cover lal hi lap make him unaware of the of f flies In summer mind allow him to tat fat fatten tn ten where dom domestic cattle grow row thin and die on fl ar lint of Iff Ih these ta When winter a h he adds fin an addi additional robe or of fur rul t his hili t robe of rt rat ant and turning lit his head tit In the storm eats etI quietly to th the front In the face of the fiercest billiard that ever Ier blew There Thre are many man small traits trait or of tb the buffalo that aI are lucking In cattle The buffalo buffal rote l never allows her calf to b be hy by h The buffaloes nIr mire In n or purls al so 10 many cattle at d It t W V h hen n they firm that they art ar stuck t lick Ih they throw thuu oat II tut Ir slats and swim or Of addle through the mud as AI would a big In springtime they Ihy curry urr them by rolling roiling In wallows wallo made mad In the hard dry lay clay thue thu removing their win winter ter Irr KI amid I 1 III re p their skins Pt UM ne to task luk It Ian They lie If with their I hot ke up IH II a hill 1 us to 10 rise rl and I loc m out day I n tun th Ih I rIl of up danger They always tae rue a storm sad Clever drift as 1111 do rattle aU aUThe The They Its III down with their heads to tl the th fiercest storm their around on their sides un and steep I content contentedly I edly while the great mass of If fur tur on onI I their high humps shield the tbt more ox ex posed parts of oC their from the winds wind CATALO What is II of the JI is also true of 01 the tato atoll which I originated lint n t In tta and after afterward ward continued at the me Goodnight ranch In rex The Th catalo is Ia a cow and In all It t takes Its from Crom frome the stronger troll n Ol t th thIn W e buffalo In my travels In 1 tb the I became that mint millions of 01 meat b bearing rl l animals tIt be then If natures fa Showed We e or buffaloes on the th IbON ot of the tar far north wh and musk muk thrive omit we upset to make mak a complete it cattle uSe Oft on the buffalos natural paal as The new race nwe of 01 ea l which h I hUll have prod by CN II the buffalo burtalo with the a I re u a well to tAM Ule short gnu em country count as al tile the slid they combine with Ill the bl t Bharat arill ut of the buffalo U tie ad advantages vanta vantages H of cattle for human f The I catalo has bl the great a weight vt of the buffalo It breeds as rut and andIs i I Is u healthy It Its flesh lIh I u juicy compact and aud and swat u that tbt of 01 our OUI I beet cattle For shelter better It ft only the band handsome ome bl block e t beaver hide bide which is III a cross crOll between the at heavy coat ot of the buffalo and the softer hide hidey y of 01 It Its I cow mother In a general way war the herd of oC buffaloes an and In Which Mr ant and Mrs Q of oC Texas and aAd myself have a J inter ell eat I is p pretty tr well 1111 known throughout the west well Colonel henry InmaR Inman who hu has written the sot 01 m my life liCe of ad adventure adventure venture lit In the west t and of Df my lit Arctic explorations n h ban t told of my connection WIth the h buffalo walls at ar MY have lI concerning the tho h herd There nIen Sims to have been some about the proposition that he Goodnights and mIC have made to hi In J Mr Charles A ATul Tul rand at attia th of his wife th three bu ado calves II These were wre the or of a be which la is at present Oat ut I U the country AI About lt Ute the WIt I had a herdIn herd In hating IC Thew t I Wok toek to Apr Nka ka mid dt I 1 sold Ute the herd of at a bat thi were 11 taken takeD to tl Montana and I 1 M purchased them and took Look part at un to Texas AI Along with the tI I have hae ranch s pt of about two thou thuu thousand Ian sand Iv sires On this we have twenty elk nc fora deer r and a num number bet ber of of el rn antelope a insole k II extinct Wt We hive have also one OM b hundred and ten tea buffaloes said about y Good It h now Setting LIar along in hi year Ike fad Mr lr ha have bred their an they dIeT WOUld have e lose 1011 l their It If they ke had ever eYer ud bad fn any on Ut that the hI it or of ruff a sloes hIgo 1 go CD i the h mt ll m tile the of the OM sales al fIll ft a athis this thle buffalo herd A lb Goodnight tr trA e A Their ran I lies un in tM the sn country their ea Olen te is about a 1 the only chance th Ih 1 have r obtaining an t tAt Atis Ua is they board ara ud get art are laugh at betat 31 1 per lb tt herd b fit f bad is sold t t part rt pr gardens na t rk r Me etc the oho chane ar are that thai tl I t i been ne extinct The Or wall 1 a mJ myself lt have haYe thas at the lak tb th J that An t be made mil sa y at ni J be had d from the thea I hl a to tala Ute the lad and to 0 MY the of oC tench PArt at tile the imbue bile and aad carrot url nil tor the The present t rm tenh h tt mats aft It II too tor alii now CIa It the only b way of of I Curing Nad cs I is b by lenin part of oC l Ike And Ared t tha h UIl I the ranch II IB somewhat expensive IDEAL PLAciD FOR JoOn la In New N U 11 thou are an thirty hr 1110 ae acres t tan Around the at U the t nothing At present but hers heIll II a an Ideal for tor stein a great lIt herd of buffaloes far tor tile the buffalo grass and anI Ih the mamma cramm POw avow and there I is a of I shade In response to tk ue of al ai most every pr sei iti the Country And All to the a n r every err one almost wi whom I hit ha r come ome In contact and their tb lr of f opinion that thai the government should 0 buffalo tor a aton herd ot I to to ton at the of oC the present I sea Ion elon ot of Congress and made the govern meal an offer on behalf ot of myself and aad the tb Goodnights My proposition was that the government set Itt aside 1141 two sal million acres of its Ita waste land laad for the buffalo I wed asked for the till UN of 61 five hundred thousand acres for tor a ah period h ot of oft twenty years 1 staling that It be t to t along with two hundred thousand In return turn for this I a gnat would be necessary In th CM case se of the buffalo alII u it II a a animal and hu has to be prop iced that the government wan to have lIa allot all of the te Ie males or of tb the original hard and df de the hoses of the die herd As AM many M males were to be kept a as were neoe sue for tor breeding purposes and aud from Croll tb the sale MIl ot of the remainder of the mal malI males I wu was to 10 pay for tor the care are of 01 tb thi be herd and to P pay to the Goodnights or to the college for a p period of oC twenty YI years a certain proportion ru of the net Dt profits At the conclusion of u the twenty years Jean the entire herd was to be turned over to tb the government nL u As I 1 Iam am now some IOme tift fifty years year of f ap age I could not Dot make a lon longer r contract than that while I should have haft to walt wait many before tb the increase lit la the herd he wo i mean man any profit to mI me SPORTSMEN INTERESTED Chairman Lacey of oC the public Ja leads committee of the House faVored my Y YI proposition Mr Hr Wilier Miller of Kahn antt aad I Mr II Cleberg of Texas TeUl have lave both among amon th the ardent friends of f the bpi bill billI but bat It hat has met the opposition ot of Pedro I Perea the delegate from New Mexico who dated tal before the Ibe committee that tile the buffalo and the Indian are things of the past PUI nd and ahead have bave beep been eft terminated long ate RI The Th bill has been urged before the by br 0 0 president or of the of 1 American Sportsmen who wu was sent MAt by his II passage Crom h New York to advocate T its III passage lla W T director ot of the New York Zoological park rk aub tb an argument III favor of the th bill and Governor Roosevelt has bel writ written ten me about it II But the heuse committee has baI out down In its th the two hundred thousand acre to twenty thou thousand sand TIll The government offers to lease IM IMme me this If I will give it II one n cent per acre ure I a year yar rent nl and s a pair of buffaloes each year This Thill makes the mat of oC the theland theland land about six cents IA an here s per year which is II tour four cents more mort than the prove at which the rov government leases it II to sheep P and cattle ral raisers and 1114 the osier or hard one that Illat promises much ber the Senate Senate chooses to 10 deal al more IMre Uber ally atly with the surviving members of the th family of the great American J Jones Jont In Yew t lo Tork c herald x I t j rt MR PECK MUST EXPLAIN I U to tot Congress Just at present W Peel Peck United get t from rom Ferdinand to e Pins Marl I eaP commissioner lII i a dia t ot the aa wb which be has baa es 10 tar ht spent st connected with Wit tM the for tor exPense lion Mr Peck he tf PUtI at t tI f him WItt himI la II his wad 4 tile plot tat pla I I most MINt ese p |
