| Show DOOLY BUFFALOES PRAISED IN THE EASl 1 Antelope Island Sub jec l I of a 1 Letter In lii a communication In the NC 1 Ne I York Sun un of ot recent date u Il correspond correspondent ent cat at nt Utah who signs ni him himself self Emigrant has the t tsay hSU ti h of or J. J E. E herd of or Buffalo SU say Dooly's or 01 om c Island I have lun rend read with Int rest interest I various articles article which have hlll appeared in tit the hi Sun Suit during Ute tire last two t tS years regard regarding In log ing the thc preservation el of ur the American bison generally known as us the thu but tab falo The breeding of this noble animal ani ant mal mat In captivity has been beena a great success sue suc ce cuss cess 8 in iii Utah I refer particularly t to the herd of or John E. E Dooly on Antelope Island In the Great Salt Lake where E. E each ch succeeding generation of or the e c animals Is Increasing in III size beauty p and symmetry They may be said sak to possess posse 8 all the thc merits of or the choicest choicest choir est specimens of or the herds that roamed roam roani ed ell the grassy gral plains of the thc Platte S from Omaha to Laramie during the thc S hegira to the gold mines of or California front from IS 19 to 1835 S. S t n n. n l nim lu Iii l miles long bug and from oon li three l' l t to five C 1 miles ii S wide It contains thirty thousand acres of or excellent grazing grasing land It i Is S well SUI supplied with fresh wn water I unexcelled un un- S excelled in quality and ana the hills ar are alt covered cu with bunch grass which make makes makes' nutritious olis winter reed feed It Its washed U Uy Dy tho Ito waters o of the Great Salt all Lake Lale give gl it a rarely equable climate specially adapted to tostock tostock to stock ral raising The Thc desirability of Antelope 1 Islam wa was discovered b by the Mormons when the they settled Utah tah It will be re- re eti ed that when President Buchanan Bu Bu- chanan sent General Albert S Sidney Johnson with a fow regiments of the lie army almy to j sub subdue ue the tho rebellious n adherents her her- outs of Youn Young the time Mormons Jormon t stampeded his hits horses hOIN and other oilier live livestock stock near neal l Echo cho can canyon on and amI placed them on un Antelope Island Inland wh where re th they 1103 were as safe from It recapture as us tte ticy would have been In III Fort Monroe The buffaloes on omi the Island subsist In iii all seasons on un natural Sra grasses se nn andare timid and hunter hun hun- the time are alc protected from flum predatory l ter Cl r as w well a as from flom wolves and co coyotes and amI their hereditary enemy the In Iii d dian inn a ii If the he American Bison so society lct tIe de- sires I to 0 preserve c from extinction the h small remnant of ot the immense hem heid di d- of American cun bison trial mat now no remain on onI I I his this continent the lime beautiful specimens ns JH that lItH- tie are now hOW to be seen on un Island witH their young running b by their sides shies demonstrate that the the- thena mitt mitt- na natural tural yea I protection foo food 1 and ancl climate of the place arc ideal The government of or Canada should not be permitted to lo monopolize the time few fe remaining specimens of thu tho mighty might herds that once roamed over OCI our our Vt est est- li cm-li plains plain It is to be lie hoped that thal the time gentlemen composing the tho American Bison I on society will wll secure the time ag that their di disinterested public pub lie lic spirit merits and that thc they mn may many in induce induce in- in duce con congress to tu make an appropriation lion tion to establish c sa three reservations reserva reserva- within the United States for the t oI In-oI propagation a of ur the time American bison one one- of or which should bo be In northern Utah 1 S I S |
