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Show ll.o herd represents three distinct' strains of pure-bloods. The herd has increased faster with fewer losses than any other herd in the country, and this year there were 149 calves : born. The herd record shows about coual number of males and females Mjrn each year. j Some thirty years ago there was a ,r:out outeiy that buffalo were about :: tei Vacated and today there are buf-; '.;lu in 1" Gity states with over 3,500 ' animals. The buffalo have gotten to the place! numerically where the surplus must j disposed of in order to maintain the ideal conditions on the Montana range, numbering it is said over 700, and for: s ii is reason the herd will be reduced. Local Epicureans Will Have Feast There are yet a number of the pioneers pi-oneers in Gunnison who were on the caravans that came acr.j::;; the plain.; in the early d.iys and .vho v. h it-number it-number tlie counties Luii'iu tha1. Were encounlcied uuri;. t!. t ';.'.. -i. Tli'.' pioneeis, a! '.veil a; lii p..;,u-la.e p..;,u-la.e that ha.j t-i.iii.- iw; v. -ii ! !.: how the buffalo were sluu!;'.:r :l u.i- -til they were a!mo. I ':!:..'.. Jvj thanks to the aclivi'y of the jm.v.-i.-merit and other .,g!iiv.ul;.r.-- lot I '.: preservation of the l'i w ix-dtvCnuiv, bull'alo and for tl,i.j irai'.ii li.e- ,1 . -one:r, as well as the ltw y ' -1 . ' j .ui'iii, wdl have a chance to enjoy a iVa :t o,' the succulent bull'alo meat. G. 11. Wtat, government buffalo :-;:!' ::!)i':n and who was in tin- city hut wct-i:, made arrangement.-; with the o.viieui "of the Star Ahul'it to ship a half a btfi'alo here soon after the lir.it. of the coming new year. It is not generally known thai, the buffalo have suilirit-tit'y increased in the United St ales under government piotection until there is now a surplus sur-plus on the Montana range, where id al conditions exist fur the propnen-thiii propnen-thiii of this "king of the plains." Mr. West, who is representing the government govern-ment and who is visiting many of the towns in Utah, came here from the ..'aajiii.i l;i. on lange in Montana in i .: to give the peoj.'.e an opportunity opportun-ity t ff-l a share of the surplus buf- ' l.!o meat, through the lueal markets, j The his'.'.iy of the national move-i l J'.,;- :... pre- -v.-rva' ioi! of the buf- ; fr.io v.iil by in.'.e-re ting to many : a-i :. I", v. as begun in l'JOl, and on h.ei.a: y i), 1'j'jT, at a mei-ting of the! ii, I;: !! s1 ti'-ty, plains were i.: ; . - i ' ' - i ;..r tii'- es' ablUhing of a ' i ! :' Lwl'a'o t b? known as :,',i a ,'a' :- na! U'.S'in herd. In ',' . .: j i ; t k A'.'i w;ti reeom- j :-.v!-.. (in Man h l'j, la()3, Senator' j. W. : .0 iai hired a bill in eon-! : lu o: ij v ii b : fur the purchase of j 1 ii ,1 range and the proper r 'a '.eg i'1' the .-ame. The measure was j .a ' i an 1 a n..i.Ui ll..r approved by j r,i ,ia-nt Theudinx- Roosevelt. The -'.uU: of the lands included in the .tinge was approved by President W. 1.' Tafl. Tlie t etal ;i; prepiiat ion for the range liriaily amounted to ',50,700. Early in i'.iO.), a fe.'a-e sir : ounding the range was completed and the range turned vc-r to the Hureau of Biological sur-vi sur-vi y. The rang" embraces some thirty r-sua-e miles of land and it required ' thirty-seven miles of fence to make the nclosure. I With the completion of the fencing j ef the reserve forty-one of the finest ! specimens ii'rom three of the best herds in the United States were se-' se-' cured by the American Bison society and presented to the government. |