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Show SHEEPMEN OF IDAHO FACING HEM LOSS Great Snowfall, Followed by Extreme Ex-treme Cold, Puts Woolgrow-ers Woolgrow-ers in Bad Shape. Special to The Tribuno. BOISE, Ida.. Jan. 3. The Idaho sheep Industry has been delivered a paralyzing blow by tho recent heavy snowfall, followed fol-lowed by the almost unprecedented cold wave. Unless there Is a break In the backbone of Jack Frost, those who are heavily Interested In tho shoep Industry stand to lose thousands of dollars, while hundreds of sheep will probably die on tho range before they can be driven to cover and taken out of the exposure or rushed to tho more populated centers where foed, especially alfalfa hay. can be secured. Sheepmen Interviewed today made no attempt to hldo their fears, and while some of them did not take so serious a viow of tho situation as others, It was generally conceded that something must be done to save tho sheep which are wandering almost unprotected on the range. With alfalfa hay costing no less than SI" per ton in the stack In parts o southern Idaho considered ns tho feed centers, and owners of flocks forced to pay tho price In order to keep their animals ani-mals from starving, with the Bheop weak and sufforlng as a result of thn severe exposure they have been subjected to by the cold wave, and the larger part of tho range covered with snow so that they cannot pick their feed- the situation Is one that Is considered serious. Bouthern Idaho and Dolso experienced today tho coldest weather recorded since 1002, and this adds to the danger of the sheep situation. It was G degrees below In this city at C o'clock this morning, 2. decrees below at Caldwell, 12 below at Nam pa and 8 below at Pocatcllo. rhe cold wave Is extending across the state and striking the unprotected desert Inhabited In-habited by thousands of sheep. If reports received In Boise today aro rellahlc. suffering Is general among nil oheop ln tho southern part of the state. |