260 from Jackson Probably 230 tons were produced in excess of local legitimate demand this year about Jackson a hard winter is in favor of the sprang as amount snow Thanks an abundance of hay could be bought each summer at $6.00 a ton It is from policy to continue feeding elk without a special place Can be changed into a feeding ground ✓ 3/4 of the elk that come to Jackson came by way of State and ditch Creeks by the Gros Ventre and Mines ✓ Thanks calves only should be fed in an emergency like this winter Thanks it would be extremely difficult to move any large number of elk from them accustomed trails. ✓ Perhaps the kill that comes out the same preserve when there before they drop their young but many breed anywhere on the way back many young are drowned in streams. Most of them drop their calves in June Jackson March 20. ✓ Drove down south of town and returned a Cattleman R.P. Spencer. Thinks there are 20,000 elk in region of Jackson Hole. Thinks this was 7 or 8 thousand elk in the valley and adjacent hill sides when they commenced. Feeding. Thinks practically all the calves died in the region N. J. town, the only ones he has seen. Thinks 60% of the dead are calves. ✓ Thinks 80 to 90% cows old enough to breed (for 2 or 3 year) have young. Thinks there are nearly 200 dead elk on his place mostly calves. Thinks the bull calves die first. Thinks elk that stay back in the hills is better than those which come into the valley but those bucks contain few calves. Estimates 10,000 tons of hay produced a Jackson Hole. ✓ Has been very little surplus hay most years above demand for cattle. ✓ If this was a demand for elk hay then would be an excess and the price would go up to $7 or more a ton. Thinks that this is natural home of the elk and thinks that the sprang should be regarded and set aside for the elk. Then when the ele are fed the more they come would take in the section above the storm. This would include M.V. Gatterer