Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-26
HUNTING BUFFALOEs. A Western Hunter Endeavors to Dom. esticate the Animals.

"I began hunting the buffalo in 1871,
 have killed from 40 to 60 bufaloes in one
 hunt" said verteran buffalo hunter to Q New York Herald reporter. ''I figured out 8
 plan of my own to corral them upon the prai- rie. I made an effort to get in front of the
 herd when they were travelling, so that they would come within about 20 yards of me in passing. then shot the leader through the heart and dropped her in her tracks. The leader was generally COW, the old bulls be- ing lazy and usually tagging behind. The herd would fall back in the direction from which they came about 100 yards, stopping to turn around and look for danger. In few
 minutes sone of the cows led out to go around on one side or the other, and would drop her as did the first. They would again fall back short distance and huddle togeth- CT. After short pause, another COW might undertake to go around on the other side, and invariably met the game fate as the other two. The herd after this was sure to form a close group upon the ground where they halted after the first shot as buffaloes never retrace their steps but short distance.
 "Now, they had trouble on three sides, and on the other was their back track, and I WAS free to shoot down as many as I wanted, pro- vided I did not fire too rapidly and alarm them. Whenever one would attempt to lead away, made sure to kill it, and this taught the others that it was sure death to the lead CTS.
 "To be sure it was very cruel, but I could
 hear the crack of guns on every side, and
 thought would have my share.
 "I soon realized that these animals would
 soon be extinct, and in 1884 began to gath CT up the calves to atone for my slaughter.
 It was very difficult matter to raise them, and at first lost fifty per cent. of them; but after a little experience I could save ninety per cent. The calves when caught over three months old cannot be raised-the cage breaks
 their hearts and they give up in disgust. continued my efforts, however, and soon had fine stock of calves on my ranch near Gar den City. At the close of 1884 I had only succeeded in raising four, the next year sev- en, and the next twenty-two; and this year have twenty two full blooded calves, and my herd to-day numbers nearly one hundred. "I bought the famous Manitoba herd, con sisting of sixty full bloods and twenty crosses, in 1887.
 "I have sold a great many bulls to shows and menageries at prices ranging from three l to seven hundred dollars.
 "The buffalo has very fine, long coat of hair, which it sheds every year, and am ] saving this, which averages about ten pounds per year, intending to have it made into cloth by way of experiment.. The buffalo grow much larger in northern climates, the bulls reaching weight of twenty-five hun. dred pounds, with magnificent heads, which l are eagerly sought for by the museums, and for which they have to pay from two to five 1 hundred dollars apiece when mounted. "The meat of the domesticated bu ffalo ia 1 as tender as the finest beef and has deli ! cious flavor. It is not like the old tough run down bull meat, which we used to get l and which was nothing but muscle and si. new.
 'The COWS are more valuable than the bulls, a number of the former having just | been sold in Utah at prices ranging from five l to eight hundred dollars. The half breeds I are not so good as the three-quarter or seven- eighths. The latter are splendid animals, carrying fine coat of hair.
 "With view of perpetusting the race o1 American buffalo, and also of establishing 1 an attraction for the city, syndicate has
 been organized at Ogden. A geological
 farm will be started and completed as rapid- 1 ly as possible. Negotiations for the pur- chase of half interest in my herd have
 been going on for some time. They are now
 concluded, the price being seventy-five thou
 sand dollars.
 l CT anticipate no difficulty in moving the
 animals, as had done in bringing the mani. l toba herd into Kansas"