Show THOUSANDS OF SHEEP PERISHING IN NEVADA Traveling Inn In From Sagebrush State Stute Brings Report of Suffer In ing Among Flocks Sheep are arc perishing by thousands and cattle are being beng frozen to death In the mountains of central and east eastern ern em Nevada saId J M H Walker alker tray trav cling representative of Hewlett Howlett Bros Brosof of this city who has just returned from a trip to Winnemucca and Ely ElyThe The Tho season Is one of the coldest ev ever r experienced In that sectIon and as a 1 result everything Is frozen up and there Is Ia no busIness In the tho country During the last two weeks week about 1000 men have been laid oft off at the tho mines and smelters at Ely on account of at the tho freezIng of tho ore oro and time the Inability of at the smelters to handle handlo It Thou Thousands Thousands sands of at tons ot of ore oro In transit came camo Into the camp frozen solid In the cars and until It thaws out It will be Im Impossible possible to put It through the tho smelters About mon men wore affected at the smelters and as many moro more at the mines The loss In sheep lii 19 something ap appalling appalling palling Mrs Irs Jenkins of at Golconda said to be the tho richest woman In No Novada vada ada and who owns about head of at sheep lost head beach just recently from freezing The herders sa say that the sheep lie down and freeze to tho ground and It Is necessary to cut them away Two she running a nock fleck of at head In the mountains south or 01 Golconda were found frozen to death the other othor The They had no wagon and were riding about with pack horses trying to keep the sheep on the move Their bodies were found frozen stIff and the owner of at the sheep offered altered to sell the animals they had been herding at 25 cents per head with no takers The ho weather is s so cold that It Is impOssible to get the sheep out of at the mountains and It Is expected the herd will ho bo a total loss hen I was at the tho mercury stood at 20 O degrees below zero Ua Hay at Eureka was wa at 35 per ton and even evon at this price It ItIs itis Is difficult to get hold of The cold weather Is general Jeneral and at Euro Et El Battle Mountain and other places along the line IIno the tha same sume story is 15 told Business Is practically at a standstill and the tho people are arc devoting themselves chiefly to the task ot of keeping warm The railroads are having some somo culty In getting trains through all traIns being run on late schedules but they thoy are succeeding In hauling In sut coal to supply the tho needs or of the tho Inhabitants J I MW eats the tho effects of the tho recent storm on the Lucia cutoff as I came camo camoIn In continued Mr Ir Walker The north track was completely washed away but the tho south track Is Intact There Thero are several and work trains busy at the cutoff and the darn dam ago will soon bo be repaired A peculiar sIght at the cutoff was wal the of at the tho Japanese track workers worker The Tho salt water rater washed up ov r time the cars during the storm and left lett them coat 1 with salt and they appear as S though com completely covered with snow |