The Crop has been Exhausted. ;In 1870 Fort Benton alone sent 80,-000 buffalo hides to the market. In 1883 two oar loads were sent from Dickinson, N.D. In 1835 Fort Benton sent none at nil. In 1870 a little hand of the animals were known to he proz incr near Fort Tot :en, on Devil’s Lake, N.D., and it is supposed these animals furnished the two carloads of rohes which went eastward tr St. Paul from Dickinson, 1883. This was the last year of the bntYaln—18S3. A herd nmnher. mg p)M haps 80,000 crossed the Yellow 8‘»»ne river in that year and ••They neverranm hack.” is the pitiful refrain which one hears from the Indians along the border from Winnipeg in Manitoba to St. Mary’s Lakes in Alberta.—Ex,