The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-12

He price of success in the
>GzVQA management of a game pre-
III serve is continual. careful
III ! and intelligent f0rethOught.
u 1 am constantly reminded of
this fact as l note from week
EZXIEZ1 TO week the work which
kTg55M goes quietly along in the
'e--------1 Blue mountain forest. COM
monty known as COrbn park, near
Newport, y. H, the largest fenced
game. preserve in America. To tell of
the work which is done in the course OF
Il year inside the thirty-five miles of
fence which marks the boundary of the
vast incIosure. would take much more
space than is allotted TO this article, but
1 viii try 20 enumerate a few OF the
operations which have been going along
during the last two months.
With the first heavy snowfall in No
vember came the question of feeding
those animals which would soon be un-
able TO find sufficient food for them
selves. The deer, elk and wild boar
we're all right for the present; they
were not dependent upon food which
grew upon the ground and which was
now buried beneath the snow, and,
moreover. they were fat and in un-
usually fine condition owing to the
heavy crop of apples on which they
had been feeding on for many weeks.
But the buffalOes were taken charge OF
at once. Not that there was any inn
largely on the food they can get upon
the ground. and besides these animals
are now too rare for any chances to be
taken with the finest herd in the world
Down in the southeastern part of the
reservation. IN an enclosure known as
Central station or No. I. large yards
have been made as winter quarters for
the buffalCes. and here. once the ami
mails are rounded up, il is a compare
lively simple matter to feed them. But
place. and bUffaloes are not giving to
taking orders from any one. so il is not
the easiest thing in the world to per
suade them to seek a particular part
OF the preserve and allow themselves
10 be shut up in the buffalo yards.
However, il is well known that buffa-
Ioes once started along a trail which
they have been over before are very
apt 10 stick 10 that trail unless there
is some good cause for their leaving IL.
SO. when one day about the 1st of
January, the men who had the work
in hand surrounded the main buffalo
herd OF a plain in the northwestern
part Of the park. they gently urged
them toward the entrance 10 trail.
and into this the animals turned. Five
miles away the trail reached a point
10 which a farm wagon had been
driven. and when the bUnalOes arrived
they found a little hay waiting for
them They quickly ate il. and just
beyond there was Il little more. and a
little more beyond that again. The
hungry animals walked along. picking
up the hay as they went. and natural
u enough after they had Travelled thus
for ten miles. they found themselves at
Bightfall on the other side of the noun
tain. and about five miles from the
buffalo yards. Here in some open fields
they halted for the night and the men
who had surrounded them went home.
On returning early the next morning
they found most Of the buffaloes pick
ing up 4 scanty meal from patches of
bare ground TO be seen here and there.
but two cows with their we'll grown
calves were missing They had gone
back over the mountain during the
night. and were overtaken five miles
away.
IN the meantime the main herd was
urged and led quietly along 70 a large
Enclosure known as No. = whence
they were easily driven into the buffalo
yards. Here they were taken in charge
by William Morrison. expert in the
breeding and handling OF buffalOes. and
he divided them into groups according
10 their age and sex In the first yard
We're placed all the calves of the pre-
vious spring In the second. a number
Of old bulls: i'm the third young bulls
and heifers. and SO on through seven or
eight Enclosures.
The buffaloes are 50 warmly clad in