Dodge City Times

Many of our readers are unaware, doubtless, that one way of making a living on the prairies is by gathering old buffalo bones and selling them. Most every man that has a team turns his attention to this business when he has no farm work on hand. There are bones found scattered around over the prairie, where they have lain bleaching in the sun for-no one knows how long. They are now worth about $7 per ton at Dodge City, and most any kind of team can haul from 18 to 25 hundred. It takes from one to two days to gather a load. You can now form a pretty good idea about the profits of the business -Pearlette Call.