Show 205 for the privilege of shooting their The hunt vas a great success island each own game on and has been thirty cows and about twenty-fiv- e kept at about this number since the herd was calves reduced to the It In February 1926 29 the island Except for a few odd acres Antelope Island is owned at the present writing (1947) by the Island Improvement Company Its chief economic asset is in the form of a stock It pastures 6000 sheep 800 cattle and 100 horses range An average crew of eight men live on the island to tend the 1947 forty buffalo there were on In the course of time 900 acres have been plowed and planted wheat alfalfa corn and rye being the crops raised Wheat is the only crop under cultivation at the livestock present time 28 Brown np "Description and History of Antelope Island" 29 Letter from W H dwell Manager February 11 1947 Improvement Co 30 Loo oit of the Island |