Show T JEERS COMPARE COMPARE ARE t f At I Then There I Was Vas No tray fay And AmI Cattle Dle Died I 11 ny By Hundreds The pioneers pioneers of of our valley pre are vividly reminded by this wm inters snow lers snow of the tho oJ on winter of 79 Many of them were lured here with their tine line herds of f cattle by bythe bythe the green grass graBs and abundant nat natural ral range and were Just I getting settled when a most extraordinary winter hit them The precipitation was possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly as heavy as this winter Immediately Immediately immediately Immedi Immedi- but a thaw followed settling the snow down downto to eight or ten Inches and freezing It there like Uke a shoot of ice ice For the stock to pa paw w through It and get the grass beneath watch was plentiful was vas out of the question There were no alfalfa stacks containing from 20 to tons on every farm ana and ranch dotting the tho a I basin as are now to tobe be found On the other hand hundreds bundled and uDd hundreds of cattle that were beef fat when winter set setIn setIn setin In and without a spear of hay bay were huddled among the trees trets and brush from the tho gorge gorg on Green Groen river to Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- It ley cr creek ek and the same condition condition condition con con- obtained on Brush creek only there were more catle c there making it even worse Browsing from the brush and trees and eating every loose dry stick sUck they could find the tho fine big tat fit cattle stood looking helplessly tor for a morsel to sustain the spark of or life Their owners tried to help lp them rustle but the effort effort ef et- fort OIt was useless Some died standing erect frozen stiff that simply starved star ved wed and more than 75 per percent percent percent cent or of the whole number perished per per- h hed Cattle owners who entered the winter worth from to 30 came out In tho the spring practically p broke James McKee who owned 5 n greater rrt-ater number o 11 cattle than any other one man lost a n Ugh lighter tel per pei than any other otheT possibly because his c cattle cantle were acclimated and more acquainted with the range and were willing to mOVe more to where browsing was possible The heavy losers were S SD S. S I D P D. D Colton Johnson 0 C C. C E B on Nathan Davis I Isaac Isa SI at Burton urton and sons T T. fay Taylor r. r apt Dodds Alf AU John Johni i Hatch Bros Robert y Joseph Hardy and pos pos- others whose names we WC t get is Ls good live example of It t a II thrill thrift courage energy and to succeed d that those old stalwarts have SP set u us TO younger nger men When we look at them and the other pipers cers of the tho valley who lIaT not b been en mentioned I In article because it Is a a jh K lo little t tort and yet for industry and nd success success flay be just ao ua v worthy orthy ot or Emulation 1 latton by by us we see them Mill up and doing and andIn andin andt t in In verY every every I Instance stance full of tit push and vim and leaders In Jn tn community I |