The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-05

remnants of which were at that time
fast disappearing, Allard, with admir-
able foresight, concluded that such
means would never compass the ends
desired, and if the Indians wanted to
retain the buffaloes and prevent their
extinction, they had better quit dane
ing, go to work and improve their
ranches and breed these animals as
they would ordinary cattle. In fact,
he did not hesitate to express his
views on the. subject, and to tell the
Indians of other tribes that neither
the Great Spirit nor any other spirit
could bring back the buffaloes out of
the hole Into which the Sioux and
other Indians believed they had fed.
Viewing the matter in this light,
Allard lost no time in capturing as
many buffaloes as he could find
among the survivors then struggling
over Montana A little latter he was
joined in the work by Pablo and
Singer, the three becoming partners
in the business. The animals cap
tured were placed upon that part of
the partnership ranch known as Wild
Horse island, a beautiful tract of al
most 1000 acres, covered with rich
grass and forest, and lying in Flat
head lake, near it's western shore.
They started with something less
tnan so head, and year later Sam
Weld, Blackfeet, who owned 70
head of buffaloes, became a member
of the firm, adding his herd to that
of his partners.
The venture proved an immense
success. The range on the island
was sufficiently extensive, and the
environment as congenial as that to
which the animals had been accus-
toned in a wild state. In short, in
stead of being cooped up in narrow
quarters and becoming mere dispir-
| tied show animals, Indifferent breed
erS, such as one sometimes sees in
large zoo, the animals on wild horse
island have remained to this day in
a half wild condition, and as a result,
in Is years time have increased from
herd of about 60 to 266 sound,
healthy animals
This, however does not convey
correct idea of the manner in which
these animals have increased, for
ever since the herd was started
these men have sold from II to 25
young animals every season to the
agents of geological gardens, SHOWS,
and to the millionaires who, since
the close Of the civil war, have estab-
lished number of game preserves
in the east, the most notable of
which is the Austin Corbin preserve
at Mount Desert, Maine, so that, as
matter of fact, the increase has
been greater in the fifteen years since
the establishment of the herd than
the figures would at first indicate.
1t is safe to say that if these men had
retained all the animals born on their
ranch, the number by this time
would be in the neighborhood of
l 1000, instead of 266.
Lately this firm, the founder of
which, Charles Allard, is now dead
purchased 80 head of buffaloes from
the successors of Buffalo" Jones,
thus increasing their herd to sol and
making it the largest herd in the
world. AS money making venture
Allard's enterprise has proven equal
to an ordinary gold mine, the de-
mand for these animals having from
the outset far exceeded the supply.
Moreover, their customers are only
very wealthy men, the poorest of
them being persons of such means of
Colonel Cody buffalo Bid or the
proprietor of Sells Bros circus.
In the management of this herd
these men have paid considerable at
tention to the crossing of buffaloes
with divers breeds of cattle, produc-
ing what in the west have been
termed "cattleoes'', a most absurd
name invented by ignorant cow
punchers, who, proceeding on the
principle that if a man is born in a
stable he must of necessity be a
horse, have in a like manner con-
cluded that an animal which happens
to be a cross between some individ-
ual of herd of domestic cattle and
buffalo is, as matter of course, a
"cattleoe."
Pablo, Allard & Co. have found
tnat a cross between the buffalo and
the polled Angus breed of cattle pro-