LAST OF THE BUFFALOES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1919, Page 3

LAST OF THE BUFFALOES.

LIVING IN SANCTUARY. "\ The largest herd of buffalo in the wol'l<l——a herd of 2900 head—nlayV be soon at the Buoa-lo National Park, at Wainwriglit, Alberta, Canada. The animals graze on =:1: I'allg=e of 107,000 acres. Tllos.c buffaloes are occupying the st::unpi'_llg ground of their fOl‘ofiltllCl'S,. for tlm); ,-.n'o the !descendants of .:1~. flew buffalo cows which {roamed in the old.prc—sottlc:ncllt days. Michel Pablo, ,2L.,Me.\:ic.an half-breed rancher, bought zL,f.ew head; of bufialo from a Flatllezycl Indian, who drove the r-animals from Czinzgda into Montana. Later he adllrxl .lo,=tllisllercl, and loft 1110 anima-ls to »r'ozun...ou tho—Flatlload I'csel'v:ltioll in l\lonlana. Years lat-el‘ Pablo. \\'h'o was S:z\'ing his herd against the day whell the animals w.01.1'-.(l be-some sc.u.3<r, hoard that the Ynittvl "fifiites was guinz: to 1'l1r(:w €’lhJ”l‘L‘*u'!'\*:ltioP ope-11-1') ~*".’r[lo— This wonlfl rob him of :1 frnc I':mg=e. Ho _]-01.1TI'lC_\,'L1‘(~‘. to \\".l.<h—l‘i‘._L§‘TOl! to sell his hernil to the Govern-zzn‘-ut. but the ofhcial appoinfod to deal with him was liot :1 diploniat, and only czm.<ml 9. t,llStlf__;‘l‘(?(‘ll7_C*?ll'. l‘.atol- a (‘una-

dian immigration ‘otfici-a1 11~era.1-d of the herd and sent the ‘tip to Oftawa. Canada gent Howard Douglas, Commission.er of Parks, to Mon’ca,nah, uand he closed the deal for the world's biggest herd and had the buffaloes shipped out of the Ullited States right. under the noses of thousands who criticised zheHGo¢ernnlent’s inertia in not interfering. The deal for the herd was first made in Canada, but the wily half-breed caused a second deal to be drawn up in Montana, disposing of the herd. The United States could hna.v=e preVen"t.ed hf-he depol'tatio_n of the animals under the Canadian agreement, but was powerless under the second contract to interfere.