Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-30
THE RUTLAND EkALD
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER "a, 1871.
Four Daysin in the Desert-A Buffalo
Hunt.

Four Days in the DeserI-A Buffalo
Hunt.
Among the thousands who shook handa
w.t1 G.neral Grant in the pr1Or OF the
fremont House while on hi4 II IT to Chi
cayo, iu-t before III hcp, was Prof. J tmer
D Butrr-one of the very few who were
lu Ky enough tn draw out response from
onr t-ci'urn Presid-nt. The Professor
had come in from among the buff l"es in
Western Nrbr.sk4 with General Alvord,
U. 8 A, we'll known in the army as "Old
Ben" and who was Captain of the COM
pany at j IF ,rson Barracks. in which
Grant served as Lieutenant. AcC0rdinVly
IA TIE Professor took the Presidents
hnd, he said, "Jnst in from n buff 10
hut with Old BIN" Alvord.l "Ah," re-
plisd General Grant, turning around to-
ward the Professor, who was passing on,
$40 you saw my old friend ont there p
"Ye-," was the answer, "they are all your
friends ont there"
We ndd few penciinga of the Profess
sor on l. way to the stamping ground of
the huff 40, which we hope TO supplemert t
by his experiences in the scenes of the ec-
tral hunt.
PENCTLINGs BY THE WAY.
of Sept 9 h, from Lincoln, at 6 a. M
Train et-freight--m4ny rails-more
ties. One woman. unattended, from Ohio,
looking NJ the country. II she ia pleased,
her husband has resolved to migrate. If
she i. not he will not BE- curtai4.leetured. .
Another woman from Indiana escortin4
her sons wifi, with two wee onss. TO her
son who j. on his homestead In Fillmore
comfy. Nine lind hunters from Illinois
and several from foreign countries-two
It,isns.
w. look back on the State House, Uni
verify and hotels All wonder that Lin
oolu, though ouly f'ur years old, looks 81
much like - city. We pas1 Gov. But.
lsSs mansion. and the temporary asylum
for the insane, built on the ruins of the
one lately burnt.
In passing on we see little cultivation
ami few cabins. The land is held by
sp-culsto-s waiting for a rise in land val
ues.
W. atesm slowly up tho heaviest grade
Of the whole line-thou9h it i only thir-
ty.rwn feet-hurry down into the valley
of the Blue and halt at Crete. Here wa
lork at the belfry of academy, ut ho-
tells and a thriving village, where a year
ago there was only green silence.
Tn Mills ,fter pe4-ing tAe bridge md
mill on the Blue, we reach Dorchest-r.
Here we fnd water damned mp by the
grading 50 ~ 70 form a reservoir for rail-
road ueeda. We ara told that this expo-
di-rt 'or filing tanks or providing stock
waite, wherever tried has proved suo-
ces.
w. talk sometimes derisively. but often
a. sdmiriugly sbout the m4ke~hlft1 for
houses which we glide hy-tha tents,
cabin. fr.mel and finished with sing'e
load of lumber. duE ou's, where the lay
Of th- land favored such trovlodyte hor-
rowjnv. aud esppoil'y sod hous-s. "Ne-
brask brown frort-" Where no hou-e
8p ears we are ofren sure thar 81 home
s'eaAer haa made his pitch, for We fur
row turned over, and perh 'p' patches of
COR or mslors.
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