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Show . .SE2SPlIf THE SAGEBRUSH . . 'j . - - - -Cattl:m2n;Says 60.D:l3T7 Zero Weather .'and Deep : SnoTT.nas Kaie Stcck Less Heary. the loasea will be very heavy. As I rode across the desert I saw hundreds of sheep lying dead In the sagebrush. While the severe . winter at first, though, would seem lo have been a terrible ter-rible calamity, in reality it has been a blessing in disguise. The heavy snowfall assures plenty of good range for this year and for several years to come, and the value of good ranges to stockmen will more thart equalize the losses for the winter. Of coarse, the smaller operator will suffer greatly." II- A. Friend, a Wyoming cattleman, ; who' arrived in Salt. Lake yesterday from, the Northern rangea, says that the weather of the past winter has been more severe than has been experienced expe-rienced in Wyoming .since 1890. "The enow," he declared, "is from eighteen to twenty-four Inches deep on - the level places and Is crusted and i . packed hard and In places It is drifted something awf uL . I have been riding the range for the past five weeks and during that time I saw the temperature ranga from 20 to 0 deg. below dar after day. ;..The snow is Just commencing to melt, and It will take lots of sunshine) ndwarm winds before It is all gone. ' Je tock losses for the entire winterwill win-terwill be heavier than they have been foil years. The normal loss to from 1 to J 5 per cent, but this winter it will -ruvas high as 10 or 12 per cent. ' Of course, the stockmen all feed through - the winter, but the stock to weak and many of them will die. "By borrowing from one another I think most of the men who are feeding atock will have fodder enough to last them until the ranges are In shape to -turn the stock out. "The sheeD on the American desert have had a hard time, and I am afraid |