“There were, and I suppose are still, small bands of sheep on Dome and Shingle Peaks, on the headwaters of White River, in northwestern Colorado.

“There was also a band of sheep on the Williams River Mountains which lie between Bear River and the Williams Fork of Bear River, in northwestern Colorado, but these sheep were killed off about 1894 or ’95.  The Williams River Mountains are a low range of grass-covered hills, well watered, with broken country and cliffs on the south side, toward the Williams Fork.

“It is also reported that there is a band of sheep in Grand River Canyon, just above Glenwood Springs, Colo., and sheep are reported to be on the increase in the Gunnison country, and other parts of southwestern Colorado, as that State protects sheep.”

Mr. W.J.  Dixon, of Cimarron, Kan., wrote me in May, 1898, as follows:  “In 1874 or ’75 I killed sheep at the head of the north fork of the Purgatoire, or Rio de las Animas, on the divide between the Spanish Peaks and main range of the Rocky Mountains, southwest by west from the South Peak.  I was there also in November, 1892, and saw three or four head at a distance, but did not go after them.  They must be on the increase there.”

In 1899 there was a bunch of sheep in east central Utah, about thirty miles north of the station of Green River, on the Rio Grande Western Railroad, and on the west side of the Green River.  These were on the ranch of ex-member of Congress, Hon. Clarence E. Allen, and were carefully protected by the owners of the property.  The ranch hands are instructed not to kill or molest them in any manner, and to do nothing that will alarm them.  They come down occasionally to the lower ground, attracted by the lucerne, as are also the deer, which sometimes prove quite a nuisance by getting into the growing crops.  The sheep spend most of their time in the cliffs not far away.  When first seen, about 1894, there were but five sheep in the bunch, while in 1899 twenty were counted.  This information was very kindly sent to me by Mr. C.H.  Blanchard, at one time of Silver City, but more recently of Salt Lake City, in Utah.

Mr. W.H.  Holabird, formerly of Eddy, New Mexico, but more recently of Los Angeles, Cal., tells me that during the fall of 1896 a number of splendid heads were brought into Eddy, N.M.  He is told that mountain sheep are quite numerous in the rugged ridge of the Guadeloupe Mountains, bands of from five to twelve being frequently seen.  As to California, he reports:  “We have a good many mountain sheep on the isolated mountain spurs putting out from the main ranges into the desert.  I frequently hear of bands of two to ten, but our laws protect them at all seasons.”