The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-08
GAME WE'LL PROTECTED
Very Few Signs of Poaching in
the Park.
SORGHUM FOR ARID LANDS
The Acreage Has INN snssly Increased
Throughout the Western Coun-
try-How the Syrup
Is Made.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G street n. w.


port of Capt. w. E. Wilder of the 4th |
cavalry on game and game protection
in the Yellowstone park has reached |
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. |
Captain Wilder. who is acting superin-
tendent of the park, acknowledges re-
ceipt of instructions to make a report |
on game, and adds:
''At the time your letter was received |
a party was scouting through the coun-
try inhabited by the buffalo, and re-
port upon the game has been delayed |
awaiting it's return.
The scout in charge Of this party |
reports that there are no signs Of any \
poaching having been done in that \
section of the park, or any other
through which he passed. The snow
is still very deep in the interior of the
park, the advance of the warm sea-
son having made little, if any, i'm
preston upon it; the snow is partic-
ularly deep in the region inha bited by
the buffalo, nevertheless they appear
to be in good condition. 1t is the opin-
ion of the scout, who has many years
experience, that the buffalo live upon
pine boughs. He adds. There is no
other feed that they could get He
saw 26 buffalo in all. The country they
are in is thickly timbered, which ac-
counts for his not having seen great
er number. Those he encountered be-
came SO panic-stricken that he avoid
ed them. rather than otherwise, as in
their endeayor to escape they broke
through the crust of the snow and some
of them disappeared almost entirely
out of sight. He made circuit of the
country they are feeding in, and found
rir 50 1nf%
their having been disturbed by any
one There should be So, all told, in
that region, and he believes from what
he saw that they are all there and
doing we'll
1T is my intention. with the ap-
prevail Of the department, to send
party over there about the middle of
May to capture four or five buffalo
calves and bring them, in crates, on
toboggans, to Lake station, where Mr
Waters, who runs the boat on yell
lowstone lake. has some milk cows.
They can be fed there on fresh milk
until the wagon road is open, when
they can be brought to this place.
Lake station is only about Is miles
| from the buffalo.
| THE deer elk and mountain sheep
| have done a great deal better this Win
ter than might be expected under con-
ditions apparently so unfavorable. The
losses from starvation seem to be con-
| fined principally to the yearlings and
2-year- especially the yearlings-
| and to the extremely old. amounting
| in all to not more than per cent, and
| probably not more than half that
| many.
There has been very little poach-
ing in the park during the winter; the
only pretty well established case of
poaching has occurred in the north
west corner of the pork. Poaching
has been carried on to some extent re-
Gently in that section of the park by
coal miners from mines not far from
the north boundary. near the town of
Aldridge; at least there is considerable
| evidence of it. The butcher in the
town of Aldridge complained to one of
the scouts that so much was being
brought in that it interfered with his
business. A scouting party was sent
out last week, Friday, and remained
until Monday. They saw no poachers,
| but many snowshoe tracks. Another
! row. 1t is considerable hardship upon
the men, as they have to lie out in the
snow two or three nights in succession,
there being no snoWshoe cabin in that
particular locality. / shall have one
built there, however, during the sum-
mer
"A party will soon be sent to the
southeast corner of the park, where
the moose that are in the park make
their winter home. This is on the Up
per Yellowstone river.
1.-THE antelope have probably been
more seriously reduced in number than
any other game found in the park, al
though they have stood the winter
very we'll; but number have been
killed by coyotes, and still a greater
number by being shot outside the linn
its of the park or near the line. Ii
the project submitted for building a
| fence along the northern line and a
station near Gardiner is approved they
can be thoroughly well protected and
looked after so that they will rapid
ly increase in number.
II will only add that I believe that
the game Is, in general. being thor
oughly well protected"
The department of agriculture has is
sued as a farmers bulletin a report by
A. A. Denton on the manufacture o!
| sorghum strip. In this report the
writer calls attention to the fact that in
recent years the acreage of sorghum
has immensely increased in the semi
arid regions of the West. He says
1.-The ability of sorghum to endure
|, drought is a very valuable quality OF
the plant, fer it enables it to live where
other plants often perish. Sorghum was
brought to this country from the ariC
sections of Asia and Africa, and it has
the ability which is found in plants II
arid sections to suspend growth wher
moisture is lacking and to renew
growth when rains come. But the sor
ghum strip manufacturer in semi-aric
| sections has more need for effic.en
means for remSving impurities from thu
juice than those in more uniform eli
mates. The canes are at times wiltet
and dropping, the juice containing from
one-fifth to one-fourth of it's weight q
solid matter. Impurities often do no
settle we'll from such dense juice. Whel
rains come the canes renew thei
growth. The juice is then loaded witt
yegetative matter. which often neithe
. rises well as scum nor settles well al
sediment. Intermittent growth of" TIN
canes caused by drought and food Otter
impairs the quality of the sirup pro
duced in the semi-arid sections. As ;
rule the strip produced in such local.
ties is inferior In quality to that PRO
duced in more regular climates, wher
the canes are subjected to fewe
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