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Show SUGGESTS PARK FOR BISON HERD f-ederal Park Official Writes To State Board Concerning Concern-ing Buffalo SALT LAKE. Dec. 14. In a letter to Thomas Redmond, aecretary of the M.i to livestock board, Aro B. Cammer-er, Cammer-er, acting director for the national park aemcei United States department of Interior, has express, d lus opinion Of the proposal that the government t,et aside Antelope Island as a natural breeding place for bison. A portion of his letter follows: "Looking broadly on the matter of preservation of the buffalo of Antelope island, it Is our opinion at Ihls time ihnl thin might be an opportunity for the state to of eat a slate park. The governor of Iowa has sent out a call for a state park convention at lc Moln-s for January lrt. 1 L" and 18, and this service Is co-operating actively in arranging for this conference, O. Van U'. u. personal Lapfescntatl of L'ir Sti phi n i Mai " chnrge of arranging the details for this conference, and It Is to be hoped that the stat- of Vtah will have representatives repre-sentatives at the conference We are asking .Mr. Van Wyck to write " In detail regarding the cdnforenCI Mr. Redmond, In bis reply to the acting director, answers questions put iv Mr. Cammerer EEs givea the ares ..f Antelope Island u approximately 10.000 acres, of Which -" .'" arc iii private ownership. About f.OrtO acrea he Bays, of the prlvately-ow m )d land is agricultural. The valuation of tho privately-owned land I-- placed bj Mr. Redmond at $1H unci $L'0 an acre on the average, which would muke the value of the island total $500,000. Mr Redmond Is informed thai there are 21 head of buffalo on the Island of all agos and both sex . The buffalo buf-falo were brought by the lato William fllasmann, of ogden, from Qrsen Riv- r, W'yo., and were kc it for a time on the mainland. They gave much trouble, trou-ble, as they were difficult to confine, and finally the herd of about forty I was placed on the Island about twenty- j five years ago. Mr. Redmond aaya that the animate ut present are valued at $2o n head. which would add H". ' lo the I uatlon of $5cirt.Urto on the island lands, i Ife asserts that the present owners are contemplating Celling permits to kill ! tho buffalo at 200 each, and that I sixty such permits have been sold. The reason for wishing to sell the animals Is I hat the i "' owners ai e- ! breeding pure beef cattle on the ls-', ls-', land and the bison kill ami cripple I many of the bulls a id .oiing calves. ; besides destroying hay and forage j crops and otherwise making them- si es a nuisani e. "The buffalo,'.' cites Mr. Redmond, ! "are on practically natue ranges, from Which they cannot stray, and any at-' at-' tetnpt lo ship them to other reservations reserva-tions ould result In killing and crip-I crip-I p'.ing a large percentage of the am-mals, am-mals, as they are very wild, and run , without restriction In their native siate." Protest was made to the -;.it, board I of eQuallsatibn a few w,k. ago by John B, Dooly, principal owner of the island, against an assessed iluatlon of ; 150 a head placed on the buffalo He j insisted that the annuals are more of, a liability than nn mk.m |