| Show HARD ON THE SHEEP Much Loss Reported From Drought in Emery and Carbon Prier er County Commissioner fleorpe G Frnmlscn Is l hack homo from a trip of ten days Into the lower desert county nnd ho gives I most gloomy account ac-count Q tho condition of and prospects for sheep on the lower ran go where the owners of oiihttrn Utah especially those claJ of CarlHin and ISnury counties arc In ho I I Iiablt of ranging their herds during tho winter months Mr Fnmdsen says that sheep which have boon taken In then by the t thousands for no mon t ln r dylnj off by hun dridn and here I will 1m u general I AfjforL fo trail them back There Is tml thCm back lhe1c un abun dance of fed as Is usual at H > IH iImoC he year but never his water boon known to ho MO scarce The losses or himself nnd two or three brothers who have Mjiht 1 1l thousand bead thcro now have exc H > ded anything In their twenty lhElr years experience In this part of Utiilv Thoy had several thousand head bclngr driven In there In nddltlon to the olghtr I Th < msind mlreiily on that rungi and these havo been stopped nml will bo turned back gWllled Fortunately they have plenty of hay In ho vicinity of Price and they will bring the sheep to the hay ut Others ho awl a-wl o are nut ISO fortunate will lose hall Ihclr Hocks ft thoy are kept In the country coun-try Never has there been so little mois lure end as It occurs to him snows nnd plenty of them within the next few wceka Is Iho only salavatlnn Spisikincr of the I Ulnlah reservation n portion of which Is I leased to sheep Mr FrsmdHon oays that section Is as bad off is il1 other and I the losses out there for tbi 1 lack of water are as heavy as in other > lacos r Reports come In from the NineMile country In keeping with tho above This section ihs between Prlco and the reservation reser-vation Owing to tho uncertainty of the nnowfall In this part of the State 11 is 1 only a mutter of time says Mr Frandscn when all will have to feed |
