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Show WHITE MED SQUIRREL AND PERSIAN SHEEP IN UTAH FOREST Where Deer Drive Cattle From the Salting Grounds and Buffalo Buf-falo Are on the Increase Sheep With Long Legs and" Fat Tails From the Deserts of Persia Rugs of High Value Made From Reddish, Black and White Wool. Three tons of salt are bought each year by the forest service and hauled from 150 to 200 miles for distribution to the deer in the Grand Canyon national na-tional game reserve. If the deer and the cattle of permittees in the Kaibab forest meet at a salting ground, the bucks drive the cattle away, so if the government did not furnish salt for the deer, the owners would not be able to salt their cattle. cat-tle. Supervisor James L. Pelton of Ka-iab, Ka-iab, who is in the city, stales that under protection, the deer are mul'i-plying, mul'i-plying, and spreading to the Trumbuil mountains on the west, and sand hills and pink cliffs northeast. The deer are variously known as mule deer black-tailed deer and cactus doer or cactus backs, the latter being thoso which have Injured or freakish horns, although all are probably the same kind of deer. The white tailed squirrel which abounds In the Kaibab. but, so for aa known, no where else in the vVOfld is larger than the pine squirrel, and than most of the grey squirrels. It is a handsome and exceedingly interesting inter-esting little animal Seeral years ago. following the ere .itlon of the game preserve, "ButLiio' Jones and others were granted permission per-mission to introduce foreign gauit. Several buffalo were imported and at the time Mr. Jonea withdrew his share of the herd, about a vear ago, there remained twenty-two buffalo of which B. D Woolley owns seven, Uncie Jim Owens, eight, and the Grand Canyon Cattle company, or M Stevens, Its manager, seven. The withdrawal ot Mr Jones' interests reduced the herd Of buffalo about one-half, but it is expected ex-pected that from the twenty-two, the herd will multiply rapidly since they are now accustomed and better acclimated ac-climated to the locality The experiments with the "cat alo," n cross between black Galloway cattle cat-tle and buffalo, has not as yet proved a success to the extent of starting a herd of the eat-alo It was believed that the hides of the cat alo would have been of high value and that the animals would have been larger than either buffalo or cattle. The Per. Ian sheep introduced by IS. D. Woolley and Charles McCormick from California, are apparently tulLll Ing expectations and the band tiao now increased to about two thousand This animal is long-legged and is. therefore, less liable to fall a prey to predatory animals and Is also in ured to hardships in its desert home In western Asia. One of its pechli-arltles pechli-arltles is an exceptionally large, fat tail, sometimes weighing as much as forty pounds, which, like the hump on the camel, Is drawn upon at times when nutritious feed is lacking. its long, coarse wool in natural coiors of a reddish tinge, black and white, produces rugs of high value, ana us mutton is of an excellent flavor. Difficulty in Stepping from One Forest For-est To Another, Although the Kaibab forest adjoins the Coconino on the north, It requires two days, or, if delaved, three days, to "step" from one to the other. The Crand Canyon of the Colorado intervenes. inter-venes. The journey is made down Bright Angel trail some twelve and a half miles. The descent of 5ouO feet and the crossing of the Colorado river and the ascent on the south side is somewhat more of a ta6k than the trip up Observatory peak, and, in ad-j ad-j dltion to the crossing of the river, there are other difficulties greater than Observatory offer. For instance, there are places where the rules require that all dismount and lead their horses, the ledge being very narrow and smooth with vertical switchbacks. There are other pla ces, after the granite region has been reached in the lower part of the can) on, where the gorge becomes so narrow that the only path is directly down the bed of Bright Angel creek. Cable Tram Across the Colorado. The river Is crossed on an aerial tram suspended from a cable 400 feet long, nbout 40 feet above the water. This was Installed by the Grand Canyon Can-yon Transportation company, com posed of E. D. Woolley, Thomas Cham-berlin, Cham-berlin, Senator Smoot, T. C, Hoyt, Jesse Knight, D. D. Rust and Jim Em mett, who expended about $15,000 In the Improvement of the bright 4n6f' trail and the installation of the cable tram. All of the materials to" the tram were transported two hundred miles from the railroad terminus at' Marysvile and for the last lap of the Journey It was necessary to tak- theM on horseback. The long cable mauo heavy loads for several horses, a proportionate pro-portionate coil being packed on the first horse and the wire continued to the second horse which carried a similar portion of the wire, etc. The car is usually kept, on the north side of the river, and upon arrival ar-rival a party, all but the leader, enter the car and the former moves ihe car across by means of a crank attached at-tached to a large drum. If the car is to remain on the south side awaiting await-ing the return of the party, he tnen goes across himself on a? narrow sevt attached to a single pulley. Returning, Return-ing, he precedes the party in the game way. It was originally intenaed to propel the car by means of a gasoline engine. |