The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30

out of the hole into which tho Sioux and
 other Indians believed they had fled
 Viewing the matter in thls nght Asiaro sd ioss a no time in capturing many bunaloes as he could find among the suiyivors then strae- gling Montana. little later ne was @ Joined in the work by Pablo ana Stiner, Ihe three becoming partners In the business: The animals captured were placed upon that part
 of the partnership ranch known as Wlld Horse Horse sand acres covered with rich grass ana forest,
 and lying in Flathead Lake, near its western ger !, shore They started with something lke ntty head and a year later Sam Weld. a Blacktoot,
 who owned twelve head of bunaloes, became
 a member of the firm, adding his herd to that
 The Venture proved an immense success. The range on the island was sufficiently ex-
 tensive and the environment as congenlai as that to which the aimals had been accustonle1 to in a wild state Tn short, instead or oeing cooped up in narrow quarters and becoming more dispirited breeders such as one some times sees in a large ZOO. the animals on Wild Horse Island have remained to thls osy in half wild condition. and hs result or fifteen years time have ncrfased from nerd of about sixty to 266 sound healthy animals This however. does not convey a correct idea of the manner in which these animals have increased, for ever since the herd was started these men have sold from tweiNe to twenty-hve young animals every season to the agents of geological gardens. shows, and to millinnaires who. since tho close ot the tlNh l War have established a number of game lTe- eerves in inc East the most notable of Which Is the Austin Corbin preserve al Mount DCs-
 ert, Maine, so that. as matter or tsGl, rs ans sInce inc astabIishment of the herd than the figures would at first indicate. It IS sete 10 | animals born on their ranch the number by this time would he in the netghborhoon or one
 thousand, instead Of 2e6 Lately & ms hrn' the tns
 dead. purchased thirty i've head Of oufaioes | from the successors of "Bunalo Jones' thus | increasing their herd 10 3ol and making II | the largest in the Tinted States. As money l making venture Auard's enterprise has proven eouaI to an ordinary gold mine the demand having from the outset fdi | exceeded the supply. Moreover. their custom | CTS are only very wealthy men. the poorest | of them being persons of such means as Colonel Cody (''Buftalo Bill') or the proprietor | of Sells Brothers circus
 | In the mana cement of this herd these mer | have maid considerable attention to the cross l ing of buffaloes with divers breeds of domes | tic cattle. producing what in the West hav' | been termed 'cattleoes, most absurd nam' 1 invented by ignorant COW -punchers, who, pro ! ceeding on the principle that if a man is borf | i'm a stable he must of necessity be a horse | have in like manner concluded that anima l which happens to be cross between some in | divldual of a herd of domestic cattle and | buffalo is as a matter of course, a "cattleoe. | Pablo. Allard & Co. have found that cfos
 between the buffalo and the boiled Angu'
 breed of cattle produces insignificant m,arnry
 beef that is superior to the pest snoi 'l"ri o,
 and Hereford meat. and that. unlike any 0t i tl' l domestic breeds of cattle tntrocuced III n tti' | West, these animals inherit enough or ul' | hardy qualities nf their buffalo ancestors
 | live through the Winter without feeding. main | taining a healthy existence. while the done3 | tic COW or steer perishes of cold or starvation | The domestic animals have never @ @1earheu II, ', | support themselves throush the Winter by | having aside the deep snow and thus ,gett!hs l at the juicy grass lying underneath put tm' | ..cat,ieoes'' take to this with the seme readi
 ness as the pure buffalo. which animal never | goes hungry as long he can paw away the | sno, ana ast the grass underneath. More | over the .'cattieoes'' are not as sor1e seem | to think hybrids. which. like the mule are l incapahle of peTpetuatins themselves m the l absence of crosses of the parent or type spe- | cies but on the contrary, they are prolinc | hoth among thAmselves and with either oi | the parent types.