Show sheer j W A carter ami M ot fo t 1 bridger wyoming aie in the cita 3 they pay anat there are in the immediate vicinity of fort bridger about six thousand head of cattle on the manees this stock has done well on manees without bedink givon hay up to three weeks ago when alie deep snow covered UD the grass and the carter cattle company began feeding hay south of fort bruiger there is less snow but tb feed is very short because of thae greaff number of sheep thai were last season there has been no loss of cattle in that vicinity as yet arid if warmer weather cornea soon there will be but little if any losses the snow about fort stidger is twelve inches dap mr groshan saya that the sheep herds driven in to that of wyoming from utah have almost destroyed the cattle ranges he thinks the late law passed by the wyoming legislature will have a salutary effect in favor of the cattle interests iy ay this law each county appoint sa sheep inspector whose duty it ia to inspect all sheep driven into the bouny and establish a quarantine against all diseased sheep within his jui diction the owners of utah herds look upon southwestern wyoming aa being abott the best for sheep that they can reach and for years they have been summering their herds there leavine early enough in the fall to get to the desert ranges in the western half of the territory the migratory herda have been a source of annoyance to people on their routes of travel to the stockmen stoc kmen of wyoming and then it is claimed that these migrations hav enabled owners of the herda to escape taxation of their herda this new law of wyoming b which each county may ibave an inspector will probably remedy the evils b soine extent of which cur wyoming neighbors complain but it is boing to work some hardship to the owners of herda driven from utah into uinta county wyoming the inspector gets his compensation pensa tion at the rate f fifteen centa for each one a cent i oer head for each sheep dipped under his inspection and sheep owners must pay ting and then to comply with the law they must notify the inspector of their coming before they enter the state since sheep are driven into the state to the number nf over one hundred thousand per year chiefly county the inspector chere will haye his hands full during the sumitr teason ind utah sheep men will have to pay aarper tributes inspector tribune |