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Show UINTAH CATTLE AND SHEEP DIE OF COLD Sheep and cattle are dying in Uintah county in considerable numbers as a result re-sult of extremely cold weather and the poor condition in which they came off the summer range, according to Harold R. Hagan, state crops and pests inspector, who returned yesterday from a trip east as far as Vernal. Mr. Hagan said that last Sunday night the thermometer dropped to 39 degrees below zero, he was told, and it did not get above zero until last Friday. Fri-day. Prairie dogs and cottontails were abundant, abun-dant, and were causing considerable damage, dam-age, he said. Mr. Hagan went into the basin over the Price-to-Myton road. It took all day to make the trip, he declared, the automobile automo-bile frequently stalling in the finely powdered pow-dered snow. He came out over the road from Duchesne to Castlegate, which is being kept open by the use of street graders to keep the snow off the beaten track. The trip was made in four and one-half hours, he said. Mr. Hagen attended farmers' roundups at Roosevelt and Vernal, and also spoke at Fort Duchesne. |