. California fish and game . pany estimates—from $5,000 to $10,000worth of damage every year to the alfalfa and Egyptian corn fields andto the fences, the;^ have not been disturbed. That the species was not CALIFORNIA PLSH AND GAME. 93 f-xtermiiiated is due, without doubt, to the intelligent interest taken inits preservation by Mr. Henry Miller. It must be admitted, however,that Messrs. Miller and Lux are willing, in view of the very considerableloss the elk are causing them each year, to have the herd reduced some-what by moving some of the animals to suitable reservations in otherparts of th
. California fish and game . pany estimates—from $5,000 to $10,000worth of damage every year to the alfalfa and Egyptian corn fields andto the fences, the;^ have not been disturbed. That the species was not CALIFORNIA PLSH AND GAME. 93 f-xtermiiiated is due, without doubt, to the intelligent interest taken inits preservation by Mr. Henry Miller. It must be admitted, however,that Messrs. Miller and Lux are willing, in view of the very considerableloss the elk are causing them each year, to have the herd reduced some-what by moving some of the animals to suitable reservations in otherparts of the state. With this object in view, on the sixth of last April, Mr. LeRoyNichel, on behalf of Miller & Lux, offered to turn over to the Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences all or such portion of the herd of Californiaelk now roaming over their Kern County ranch as they might be ableto catch, provided the Academy would undertake to distribute them tovarious federal, state, and private re ervations in the State of Fig. 25.—At Monterey the elk were transferred from the car to large crates, inwhich they were hauled to the Del Monte Park, where they were liberated October by F. C. Swain. In 1905 a few elk were taken from this herd and placed in theSequoia National Park, where they have done fairly well. These andthe original Kern County herd are the only elk of this species inexistence. The development of the oil fields and the expansion of agriculturaloperations in the Kern County region have brought many dangers tothe elk herd in that locality. To aid in saving the species from possibleextermination it was proposed to place a few elk in each of the variousreservations and parks in the state in the hope that they might thrivethere and become the nuclei of new herds. This was the hope of Messrs. Miller and Lux. One of the conditionsof their offer was that the animals should be pitt in places affordinga favorable environment and where they would probably br
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