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Show BRONCHOS NOW I SGMGEJN 1ST DENVBR. Colo.. Ieb. 21. -Bronco l.usi.-, ,,r th- northern Iiockv Moua-ttn Moua-ttn : tate-s are a I. out to uo out ot bnsi-j ness. iiccording to reports from officials offi-cials of wild west and frontier show. I Tho reason Is there a rent any wild horses t.. bust. At Seasi. not aronmi ' Wyoming and this part of the coun-l t ry . Bui down in Arizona they have wild horses to eat There :re i,oo ot' Mi. rn They' '..long to the San Carlos Indians who have a reservation not! rar rrom c;ioh-. Bui there ln't much chance o getting the Arlsons ponies! tor thc- broncho busters ot Wyoming! i tor th. Indians won't give them up. They .lay r the wiiei herds or horses "..ruiiip tiK. plains oi Wyoming and adjacent states has been growing rapidly rap-idly shorter with the encroachment .r Civilization. More and more ranches i ore beinB fenced in, herds or cattle are reduced or confined and lo make ib.- -Imattei worse for the existence ot the , Wild Steeds, olj drilling camps have be. -n extended over wide areas or - I i omlng, northwestern Colorado and Utah. BUI down on the San Carlos Indian! reservation there arc 10,000 wild steeds, roaming at Will owr the fields,! I destroying mils atter mile of grazing' .and wnh ii might be put into good til for cattle, and turning green grass ... the prairie into a scrawny covering ioi th- ir bones whlah hardly make ecn a decent mi a for an Indian. I The cattlemen have tried to buy them, but the Indians wouldn't llsleii.i rne government, through a. h Sy- moods, Indian agent, offered to purchase pur-chase them at about ij a had. InveSt the money Into cattle and aav. the meat from the horses, giving it back to the Indians for w inter rood Hut the Indians, would have none n it. The nor.s.-s aiv wortbl. even jfor hides. Tliey cannot be domestical domesti-cal id and th.- meat Isn't much of u delicac y, but the Indians insist on tholl ! age old pri rogative to have their herds I Otit on in, open prairie even as theil I fathers did. The Indians "Iso ha . about 2.00O wild burros which thej ' 'sjiy the will keep. "And when an Indian makes up his' mind. Mr. gymouds says, "you've gol to have patience to get him to change Jt. l he) are proud oi the horses and , burros for som reason and although some or their leaders have tried to I Persuade them to accept the offer) I made, so far they have refused lo sell.'-' .Sometimes in thc isolated mountain , canyons horses are found running loose, but whi:' these mirjht be termed I Wild, tlu-y usually belong to BOine ancher Who has let them run loose. Wild burros are frequent In various! 'parts of Arizona and occasionally are round m Utah. But th d lid h rs f'-rds oi IrTe mountain p lat.au , .-nlons uavt gone, probably forever. |