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Show SEVERS LOSSES OF LIVESTOCK DUE TO STORM While the recent storm which swept this section for two weeks was v.crth much to the agricultural agricul-tural and livestock men of the Dixie country, the livestock in the higher elevations suffered severe se-vere Icrs in the b'.izsirds which swept the slopes of Pine Valley and Cedar mountains. According to Ranker Benjamin Swapp who returned to St. George Wednesday after spending three weeks in different sections of the Pine Valley mountain, the storm caused serious loss among sheep and goat herds at New Harmony, on the desert wet of Cedar City and at Kanarra and on Cedar mountain. It is conservatively estimated, according to Mr. Swapp, that the loss a.t New Harmony alone will amount to over 610,000. One sheepman sheep-man there reported a loss of 85 out of a herd cf 287 ewes; another an-other lost from 150 to 175 lambs each day during the blizzard cf 10 days ago. All who were kidding kid-ding or lambing, lost heavily. On the desert many lost every lamb, and cne herder reports that out of over 500 lambs there remained only one alive after i.ne storm had subsided. Herds owned by Kanarra and Cedar City men were caught on (Continued on page 4) STORMS CAUSE SEVERE LOSSES (Continued from page 1) Cedar mountain and it is even now necessary to carry in cubes and cottonseed by pack train to the snow-bound animals. One band of bucks containing between 600 and 700 head are un- der three feet of snow on the mountain and have not been lo--cated. Plant growth on the range which was about three weeks ahead of .normal, has been retarded at least two weeks. According to Mr. Swapp, it is estimated that there Ls five feet of new snow on the summit of Pine Valley mountain. Between Grass valley and Grant on Mon-'-day there was about six inches cf snow on the level, eight to ten inches on the north slope and some drifts three feet in depth were encountered. Between six and seven inches of moisture fell in Pine Valley during dur-ing the storm and there is more water at Newcastle than there 'has been for the past fifteen .years. |