Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — A Great Band of Elks. [ARTICLE]

A Great Band of Elks.

A correspondent of Shooting and Fishing, writing from Cora, Wy., gives an account of a band of elks that came under her observation a year ago. The correspondent and her husband were driving home from a railroad station with a load of supplies. The snow was between one and three feet deep. The band when it was sighted extended backward like a great black streak for fully three miles, and was pouring over the hill in front like a torrent to the river. The trail of the elks was clearly marked in the snow and was fully two rods wide. From an estimate of the time it required for the band to traverse the section from where the animals were first seen until the last one had passed it is estimated that between six and seven thousand elks were in movement. The highest chimney in the world is at Glasgow, Scotland. Height, 474 feet. & The deepest artesian well is at Bu : dapest, Huumry. Depth 8,140 feet.