| Show WORST IF I WERf With to Livestock Conditions After Recent Storm AUTHENTIC REPORTS ARE IN INTi INJo Jo oS Ti Iu Onto A From 5 to 10 ti tho ho Weather er r Very Cold Special Cheyenne Wyo Wo tlc Ill reports have he en received by tele telephone phone phOM telegraph ot nt the headquarters of nr tho Wyoming Wool Growers association a ocl and state slat of sheep commis commissioners Ilon rs covering the and tho re livestock conditions In Lara rara Carbon Fremont Converse Crook Cronk tt appears the worst fears carR of or the stockmen havo hlo been realized rt lIz ed for losses ell lire now no conceded 1 to b quite III lIe heavy ht undine Lending stockmen held an optimistic view of ot the Ihl UP tho Iho past pal few tw dayn that the storm would pub and hat the cold spell would break In this they have hae been t en disappointed and they Ihy now admit moderate losses lu eR In some lo 10 localities and unusually heavy hOan losses In n nother other quarters The bad began with the first day dllY of 0 the present pr month when snow snowstorms storms lorm set et In tn over OCI nil All portions of the state A falling temperature accompanied the lIe storm but to say Bit there wan Willi very et Mind and the snow which fell Intermittently for over oer 10 days laid on the ground and ancl soon eoon covered the grass to n a depth of ot from six Inches In Mme ome sections to 12 and 15 Hi Inches Inch s In other regions There was WU little If It any an thawing until two dayn bI ago and then only In midday the Know no storm ceased c several seH ral days ago the Iho weather continued cold tho thermometer registering nightly aver 1111 averages ages of ot from 10 to 0 Q below zero The Tho old cold nights worked an lin additional hard hardship ship In that a n crust formed on 01 the snow It was impossible Imp to move and especially sheep heep without skinning the I g of the animals In places stockmen took look o a chance to get el their nocks to 10 the tho trail of ot tin marked by long streaks of blood In the thc snow TOSS LOSS vr vrIn In the Muskrat country cast ot Lan Lander der ler and In the Ihl country south of ot tho same ame place pIA co deep deell snow has ha com compelled compelled the to 10 feed teet for or several weeks and there the lo gen will be thi tM heaviest In the Keel Hed desert usually the beet he 1 winter range In the west 1181 because of It the th luxuriant growth of sage lage brush two tO weeks ago began to tush In hay ha by b tho and In som Instances corn was also tel fed And re reports t ports from that thaI say MY that tho thos s litRe ge brush Is wearing out and If It nil all other storm occurs and tho Iho weather does not moderate soon oon there will be ht heavy heAY lessen o ell The losses IO Bc to 10 date will willII average II 25 2 to 40 sheep to 10 the tho band and a nil there I h re are 1 rc on the I hI average n e Ill Itt of or cheep to the band In fie enc desert An Immense amount of or liny has been fed there and If It the weather Is IA from now no on the th losses 1000 eA will III not l 10 per cent nl In any nn case Telephone messages geR from central eastern Wyoming t 1 of ot unfavorable conditions awful experiences of herd herders h rl ers and owners In tho and of ot considerable loss John Morton one of or orthe the wealthiest t of If Converse COlw county came Into Douglas today from I hi ranges 40 O miles north of ot that Ihal I His face Is burned and bleeding until It II resembles rl a n raw beefsteak beefs leak while he h hI I has haR from rom snow blindness He tolls of ot terrible conditions on the tho range The II country looks like an ocean with huge billows of glistening snow Ino every everywhere Clr where Feed U Is six to ten tell Inches under snow nol there Is little thawing Sage Hage Is III wearing out remarked Morton when asked regarding condi conditions and an this expression Is well known j I among age brush s Iha re rl rei i i MI food supply for tor the range she sheep p when that becomes low lo or as lis tha tho c IMn express ex prell It begins to 10 wear out O II there Is cause for tor serious alum alarm I CONDITIONS S ARE AHE fir J J M I 11 president of ot the i Ue board of nt sheep 1 i of or the Wyoming Wool Grow Grower I er r association a and a 1111 vice Ice dent of or the National Wool Growers a and one of or the most care fu and conservative of ot Wyoming n telephones from tho Iho Me Ic on the Platte river to 10 today day that Ihl conditions have now become serious rlou fir PI Wilson V II lIOn has haR been at ranch for rol two weeks and has hla personal 1 tho battle to 10 save the wool leI les ills His faco raco Is II badly burned and Ids his eyesight Injured as a result of exposure aure He says his company will not more mar than head 1 out of or a total of ot but many man bands had narrow escapes It 11 was Willi to 10 haul hll ul hay great I I dis distances on sleds tour four and sU horse hors being required to each load loarl In one nn Instance In lance tho th hay hl did not reach a II certain sheep camp an hour too soon Roon for tho flocks were already In a I famishing con Or Ot lon that till the range Is III drep In snow everywhere lint and andas as II yet et the weather has not moderated He Is IR very hopeful and ca that It there ore are no more norms and the weather moderates soon Mon tha Iha loss In n will not b be great hilt but with a I continuation of the unfavorable conditions looses ell ellwill wilt will bo heavy In Tn some ROme Instances Insl lI es owners could not get hay hn to 10 the snow bound the th loss will already reach 15 per cent centA A leport from rom says sa R n a 11 month ngo fearing severe havo hao prevented the railroads In Nebraska ebru and In many man ln In t i A el the orders have not nol yet et been filled because of ot the th shortage gC of ot stored hay MIl and corn cornIn orri In Nebraska and nl nho o because the Ihl storms have the lIle railroad moving molnA tho shipments promptly The officials have done everything possible po to 10 forward tho Iho hay ho and grain well knowing It to 10 bo ho to 10 the In Interest terest to expedite the IhO shipments save the nock flocks for with hean 10 eR the will also suffer In ship shipments ments of ot mutton nor and Iambs fall WORST STORM I IN 1 YEARS Summed up In a II few tew the pre pr ent dorm Is the worst that ever d this e lIon at nt season of the year ear for tor several reasons First because 01 Ih tine open winter up until this time tho natural weak condition of ot stock at lit atthe the close of ot winter and on n count of nt the prolonged storm great of or now luck of wind ex cx nl 1 and lading told weather neither for 01 time of or the year To use on one I words word everything hag ha been Against the stock and with not nol ono one ln Bio gl condition favorable In addition to the and loss of ot there has ha been some small Ii II 11 I and much suffering among cat II tle It although rl have nut us 1111 have hll the tho sheep Hor ea have hll suf suffered ter 1 some ome but bUl few losses aro ato reported I The present storm has hn been ery so on Oil anti and Many of I tho men have had hn their faces tace hand ears earl and toes frozen while hll l almost Rt everyone that was compelled tI 11 to 10 be out In III the Ihl open I now suffering with snow now blindness s |
