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Milton Robinson (Grovet) R 1/2 W. 42N
on the Gros Ventre has been located
the past 15 years. Thinks about
3000 elk winter on the Gros
Venture above (the canyon?) Came
from Newyears, 1911 and then they were
living circle that had been practically
wolves at that time. Now always noted
here there a few calves and dying
Greatest loss 2 winters ago
Thinks there about 15000 on
all the country including Gros
Venture.
Thinks they should be fed and
have a winter range and if it
were large enough would be
Citizens sized of feed. Thinks West
Elk elk come down by way of
the Gros Venture. Came down about
the last of the hunting season
There is generally a little more snow
up the Gros Venture than down
here.
Thinks feeding here has a tendency
to draw them down here. Thinks
the birth of the elk comes in Sept.
up on the Gros Venture by feeding
There thinks they come down here
rather than formerly. These are the holdings
F.E. Dorvorn 160 acre 30 tons hay
E.L. Lafferty, Sr. 240 80 "
S.S. Spier 320 80 tons
T.W. Lloyd 320 100 "
Milton Robinson 160 50 "
Wm B. Lafferty, Sr. 160. 15 "
E.L. Spier 160 40 "
E.E. Hell 320 25 "
Milton Robinson 160 -
C.S. Peterson 160 30
J.S. Simpson (Waldon) 160 30 (Can put 80 tons)
J.E. Koerner 160 50
Richard Trupin 160 38
Wm Bierer 160 8 tons
Ching Smith 160+
Greenough ? 2-9-6 0 @ .20 = $59,200.
M. Maguire 160 "
This land owned long from
15 to 90 dollars an acre
Besides the local stocks about 400
head are grazed on the
Gros Ventre by permit.
Little do not bother any much about
the hay stocks, but they are sweet
and Way north about $8 a ton.