Show I r LANDER WyO I HEAVY LOSSES THREATENED IN SHEEP INDUSTRY Special Correspondence LANDER Wyo Jan Jun the weather has hns moderated In central Wyoming range conditions continuo unfavorable Sheep and cattle have been able to graze a portion of each cacti day on the high divides from which the wind ot of the past 10 da days hiss has r re removed moved all a Inow bul the l ow owIng owing Ing ng to the extremo extremely cold weather of December and the it two weeks of of January are arc thin and not strong enough to rustle feed as Is their custom cus custom tom at this season of the year practically all II stock lies has been beon on feed whore where owners could coul get ha hay or grain to the tho animals and as they have como to expect ex expect tills treatment they reluctantly push out Into this tho hills for grass Almost continuously for more mOle that than two weeks the Wyoming and Western Vestern railroad Casper to Lan Lander r lies has been snowbound and as ag fast all as ono one train started out another would become snowbound engines failed etc Sheep men and amt others ordered ha hay antI and gaIn gaInIn In Nebraska but owing to the block blockade blockade ade stock owners west or of Casper have been beon unable to obtain their supplies and with hay and grain to lust only a 0 week longer the situation Is rapi rapidly ly I becoming critical and should another prevail stockmen from corn Lan L in inder der deI to Casper would suffer meter severe severo losses The railroad company compan Is hur hurrying engines snow bucking apparatus HIS and In from Crom the east cast and It Is IH hoped the road rond will be opened before the rapidly diminishing supply ot ha and grain Is completely ex exhausted exhausted hausted The losses to date dato will whit not exceed 20 per cent but unless the supply of oC oCha ha hay and grain crain Is delivered this week week stockmen say the tho losses will be heM 7 |