Deseret Evening News | 1901-11-02 | Page 8 | Sheep Ranges Are Good

SHEEP RANGES NOK ARE tItE GOOD Almost Almos h Grass Uras Orl s Without The of ot Utah Wyoming and Idaho are happy haIP these days over ocr the bright outlook for winter pasturage A few tew weeks ago prospects were rather gloomy than otherwise The Tho ranges were sere dry Ir dr the i Price of hay ha was high and slid browsing short But nut gentle gente rains came and extended more or less lel over oser oserthe the thc entire entre Great Has Basin In area until the ground woe was S well wel soaked Then Then come a aspell aspell spell of warm weather during which grass gral sprouted rapidly on the tho south sides Illel of lulls hills hll and slopes and under the tho th brush until a pasturage turge almost ns as ni good goodas ns as that of or early spring time exists Mr Ir John C l Sharp ot or this city el who Is iii II n a very Vcr large owner of ot sheep both In Inthis inthis this state inte and Idaho declares that the ranges In this respect are ore better beter than for many man years oars past st and that sheep are ar putting on flesh le h very ery rapidly anil get getting ting Uni Into Inlo good go condition for winter A Arat great rat number of Hocks flocks nok havo have been ben driven Irh driven en on to the deserts de rrt but have hlo not ven ventured en lured ture very ery 1 far beyond the water wlter courses on account of at the th nonexistence of snow now upon which the sheep must depend dur duro durIng during Ing the th winter season reason