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Show CATTLE IN WYOMING VICTIMS OF STORMS "Snow In and around Salt Lake City is nothing as compared with the weather we have had this winter," said Joseph Kinney Kin-ney of Rock Spring's. Wyo., yesterday at the Newhouse hotel. "Yesterday there were four feet of snow up there, it being still tleeper at Cokeville. All the cattlemen cattle-men are feeding their stock, and this I am forced to do with 40,00 head of sheep. The cold weather itself has no great effect on them, if we can keep them fed, and that is what I have had to do, with hay at $32.50 a ton and corn $25. This means a daily expenditure of $2000 to keep my stock in shape. "One of the cattlemen up our wav recently re-cently secured about 5000 head of cattle from Mexico. They weren't much larger than goats and the cold weather just put the most of them out of business. I think he paid about $7.50 apiece for them. There were two or three herds of sheep disposed of in eastern Wyoming through the extremely cold weather. At Cokeville the thermometer was 52 below." |