East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-21

Buffalo Jones OF "cataloe" fame
has at last gotten his scheme for the
preservation OF the bison and the pro-
ducton of a new fur-bearing animal
on q business basis, and in the course
of u short while, perhaps few
months, possibly year or two, the
"cRtaloe robe" will commence to be
regularly quoted on the market. Mr..
Jones passed through Washington
this week and had talk with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who is much interest
ed In everything relating to big game
life in the west says a Washington
dispatch.
Mr.. Jones has already started a
ranch down on the western edge of
the Grand canyon, where they are
rearing buffalo and cataloe and car
rying on experiments with Persian
sheep Possibly through the inter-
Venuon of the president, Mr.. Jones
may get the loan of some OF the buf-
falo bulls that will soon have to be
thinned out of the Yellowstone park
herd. and this will mean a substan-
ual addition to the breeding stock on
the forest reserve grazing land.
A Cataloe Robe.
The pride of Jones life Just now is
a cataloe robe that he is carrying on
to New York to show some friends
there, and which he will afterward
take back west with him. Cut square,
the skin Is about eight feet each way.
Of q glossy blackish- brown, very soft
and with hair not quite so long as
bears
81 have a standing offer of 1920
for that robe when want to sell It,"
said its owner, but 1t is not for sale
Just now. It's worth more to me than
It Is to any one else, and If it had not
been for that skin, which shows what
We can do. would not have been
able to get the assistance 1 needed to
put this work on a paying basis. That
skin Is from a 3-year-old. My partner
cut it off too far back from the head
but the fur is there and shows for it.
self. The 5-year-olds are bigger by
half, of course. We will have to
start some OF the killing right away,
and then you will see some furs."
Breeding the New Types.
The cataloe range in the forest re-
serve is a big piece of country, but the
buffalo are kept on favored land
while the Galloway cows with which
they are crossed are allowed to rur
wilder.
The mountain ranges of the reserve
furnish cold winter weather, which Is
productive of the best grades of fur
though the robe Mr.. Jones has with
him was raised in Texas. where the
weather is much less favorable. Mr.
Jones was asked whether the expert
ments with the cataloe had reached
point where there was a fixed type
that reproduced its characteristics. He
replied: THAT is one of the point:
we are trying to establish now. The
bulls of the half-bloods, like mules
and a good many other hybrids, ar,
sterile. So are the quarter -bloods
But when you get down to the eighth
they are fertile again, and that is on
of the things we are getting at nov
to fix the proportion of buffalo an
Galloway blood that is necessary t
establish a fixed type.
There are about 80 Galloway COW
on our range now and half doze
buffalo bulls 1 am going to sen
down some more from Montana, an
when 1 go back I expect to have
whole trainload of livestock to tax
along. There are some of the bul
in the Yellowstone herd that ougi
to be weeded out and we will probs
bly, get the loan of those; 1t all cos
money, but l am very well satisfie
with the way things are going.
Public Interested I'm Buffalo.
1t does take a long time to driN
an idea into peoples heads. Here
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