Arizona republican., 1905-12-21

south and southeast are impossible
 barriers.
 This Buckskin mountain is densely
 wooded and at present furnishes the
 Ipeople of the strip of southern Utah
 with most of their building timber It
 lcould furnish a much greater popula-
 ton if it were more easily accessible. It also provides fine pasturage for its InatiVe deniZens, as well as for thou sands of head of cattle belonging chiefly to MT E. F. Saunders of Salt Lake.
 Sheep no longer graze on the noun | tain; the creation of a government for
 est reserve as well as the appropria | tion of most of the water by MT. Saun- ders has been the means of effectually
 restricting them, and has thereby been the means of preserving the mountain | from total denudation and concomi- 1 tant evils according to the cattlemen. This idea of a new national park and game preserve hero is not entire ly new; many years ago our own John w. Young, with Buffalo Bill" Colonel Cody) and some wealthy Englishmen mad their eyes on this locality as a
 game preserve, and saw it's wonderful |
 possibilities; but for some reason their !!
 idea did not take concrete shape. At |
 present the chief exponent of the idea ] as perhaps also it's father is Hon. F. | D. Woolley, of Kanab, Utah. He, per [ hapS better than any one else, knows + this country and it's possibilities, and | is taking active steps toward carrying out the idea. To this end a company . has lately been formed, including MT
 Woolley, Buffalo" Jones, late game commissioner of tAe Yellowstone park | and other wealthy men as members. Il This company proposes tc promote il travel to the Grand Canyon from the 4 Utah side and will also engage il OK periments in crossing bUffaloc5 with Hereford cattle and in raising othe9 fine breeds of cattle and sheep. The company has already secured some buffalo, elk, Persian sheep and ango- ra goats. The proposition has also been brought to the atten ton of President X Roosevelt and t:le secretary of asricul- ture, and, it is said. has their hearty endorsement; as a result, certain pliv- ileges and concessions are to be eX- tended to the company in order to as sist it in what 1t is undertaking
 "'BUffalo' Jones is said to be the Luther Burbank of the animal king dom, so we may expect some great re- k suits from the movement with which he is associated. He is highly enthu siasdc over tne proposition tu create here a new national park and game B preserve, which. in the lieht Of his long experience in the Yellowstone park, speaks well for the possibilities of this region. ApTopos of the cross ing of buffaloes with Hcrefords, it is said that MT. Jones has on exhibition . in the east a year CT so ago a mag 1ificent hides from sucl a cross breed that was superior to the real buffalo hide; he refused an offer of $1,2OO for t. President Roosevelt saw it and was mighty pleased, so much so that he fell in with the ideas of MT. Jones 10 the utmost. ,
 Tt is difficult at this time to say when these two propositions-annex- stion and the new national parz-will 1e carried out. but it seems reasonably certain that they will some day
 Mir. WOolley lately succeeded in a ong cherished ambition to get Unit d States senator down into the coun- ny so that ne might have some lnowl- .dge of it first hand. 1 refer to the -isit of the Hon. Reed Shoot. of - whose party the writer was member - The old adagc seeing is believing is rue in t:lis case, for l am quite sure III the members of the party were thoroughly convinced of the advisabil- ty of annexation and saw the advan- ages of the creation of a new nationa, park and game preserve. It is now sr. WOolley's hope to prevail on Presi- lent Roosevelt to visit the strip" as pre-eminent inducement there is the bundance of game on Buckskin ! which would naturally ap- ,eal to him. If the president does Ome, it is certain that these two prop sitions will have another and pow rful exponent"