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At Cheyenne went to the Inter Ocean Hotel & then to the Capitol.  Called first on Gov. Brooks & talked over the wolf problems.  Found him well informed on the subject & greatly interested.  He has a cattle and sheep ranch near Casper & says he has paid our trappers $60.00 a piece for catching 50 wolves on his ranch. The trapper used scent, rancid fish oil & probably other things.  Had a tame wolf & it would hunt for a bit of this scent & chew & paw & roll on it.  The man had done a great deal to clean out wolves from Montana ranches & had a wide reputation, but was a very low down, disreputable character - a morphine fiend & all that was disgusting.
The governor was sorry not to get hold of a newspaper man as he thought the people ought to know what we were doing.  Said it would do much to remove predjudice against forest reserves & game protection.  Personally the gov. is genial and entertaining.