The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-12
OOOLY'S BUFFALO
ON ANTELOPE ISLAND
Representative of American
Bison Society Writes Story
About This Herd.
TWO OF THE ANIMALS TO BE
SENT TO NATURAL RANGE
This Range Is Located in North
western Montana. and Is
Fenced In.

In Recreation for July appears an
illustrated article on ''Our National
Animal, the Buffalo, being story
Of personal inspection of tho prin-
cipal herds that still remain in the
United States, by Ernest Harold
Baynes The author is the representa-
tive of the American Bison society, an
organization having for its object "thc
permanent preservation and increase of
the American bison. and organized in
December. 1905. Since then its most
notable achievement has been that 1t
secured the passage by congress Of
bill providing for large. well fenced
national buffalo range in northwestern
Montana, and in raising the money,
something over ten thousand dollars.
for the purchase Of herd Of pure blood
buffalo with which to stock il. This
buffalo he'd is 10 be purchased this
year, and will bc the society's gift TO
tho nation. II VIII have II range Of
tweGty-eicht square miles of hilly grass
country near Ravalii, and will be main
iained by the federal government.
Mr.. Baynes inspected all the herds
in the United States, with a view to
them. This is what he says about the
herd of John r. Dooly of this city,
whose herd is on Antelope island. in
Great Salt lake. Says Mr Bayncs.
Dooly's Buffaloes.
From Montana | went 10 Utah to
see thc Oooly buffaoes Their memory
will long be green. Describe Dooly
buffaloes1 Well, il s pretty hard 10
describe things-that is, visible, earth
~ things-that You cant get good
look at. But imagine, If YOU can, n
herd of great brown jack bhts,
weighing all tho way from zoo to 1000
pounds, leaping and plunging down the
steep slopes of an island mountain,
ripping through the stiff sage like
u charge of giant grapeshot-a flight
of brown proiectiles in cloud of dnst
and those are Dooly' s buffalocs Or.
IN imagination try to follow them on
grass of the level plain below; mark
the rapid, wavy motion as tho dark
bodies rhythmically rise and fall against
the lighter ground; then sec tho whole
nerd strike the shining waters III Il
halo of rainbows, and go leapnG
through ii like a school of porpoiscs
and You have another glimpse of Doc
ly's buffaloes-Dooly IS buffaloes as !
saw them last October, when | visited
How He Is Designated.
"Of coursc. when a man has dis
tingushed himself by establishing n
buffalo herd. he is entitled 10 be desig
mated solely by his last name. but as
there is at least one other Dooly TO
whom the public says well done.' it
may be fair TO explain that the above
mentioned buffaloes are the property
OF John +. Dooly of Salt Lake City. a
man Of many interests, with white hair,
eve and an Irish sense OF humor.
called on MIR. Dooly at his office, on
the walls of which hung several hints
of the owners interest in the national
animal. There were the mounted head
of bull and several photographs of
buffaloes, including one of team be
ing driven in harness, which brought
swift memories of pcrspiring days when
the writer made his only attempts TO
solve the problem of aerial navigation,
with the aid of these sefsame hairy
demons. who could top stone walls like
barn swallows, and incidentally take
their owner with thcm-that is. when
he was lucky enough TO stay In the cart
Mr., Doolv arose, laughing, asked INC
some leading questions about the buf
faIo team, / pleaded guilty and VIC
shook hands on it.
Drives to Island.
''Next day, as Mr.. Dooly s guest, |
was driven out 10 Antelope island
which is about twenty miles from Salt
Lake City. We started at O'Clock in
the morning through n cold mist
crossed an old wooden bridge built by
The Mormon pioneers, and passed on