Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-24 | Page 16 | Winter in Jackson's Hole

WINTER IN HOL KOLE Lite Little SiO This Year Yet En Elk Ar Are Et Experiencing Hurd Tinto Forna L leter letter just received tr from Jack JackIn Jackson In son Hole Wyoming It Is 16 learned that the tue ther there have tint escaped the tho coll cold experienced In even cen more favored localities but the depth of oC snow Is lest than Imal usual very cry little having fallen since Dec 15 The elk lre ate having R a hard time tIle the snow b became camo crusted And I it Is feared tile loss wi will ho be heavy before spring ope R is 18 n a on the tho state slate game am warden und most or of the On tile the elt dir The warden arden lies hM poll honed the atatu to set apart a large pet see tun ot of country countr nel tue head of the Grot Cros riner as aR a game m preserve to bo be ler left undisturbed for tor the tite use UHe ot of the tho elk Ills His deputies 1 ind I a very few tew Parties wino who happen to own ranches In tile the Ia 10 named natural aides de wih with him the rest ot of the community who T realize alze that the district for tor winter ranle range for tor the elk would be a mOst equally desirable to for a L southern n boA hog ranch or alligator farm tarm Tue Jakson Jackson Courier an week weekly sheet to the th interests of at tue tho community generally opposes the pellon petition for tor the reason TenSOn named and the correspondent believes the nce Courier and to the tho people will win out I It Is time some thins thing was done to protect tho elk from starvation tOner former winter t feed tom d ground being fenced In and fed off art by catle cattle In the fail nl but a a tcp step an ot of this kind would only tend to postpone tt further I IIla ac tion that might really benefit them h Ila Real estate Is reported as D looking up gutte a number of now a no Gette ac are e ax I t to arrive t from Iowa o and a num number c ber of J dry farms f ft will W be taken k up In ut tho nley aliey a as soon 1 spring opens People slow to realize the adan til CS of oC this hue valley l as a cattle country where grass Is 10 so plentiful on the thu open range g no sheep heep being allowed In the thelle alley lle to cat it ai oil tito tho teed arid and tramp I it out with th their hot hoofs The distance from troma froma a railroad is In not uch a drawback I as I it might I t appear as cattle come In every tJI fall nod 1 nat pay fair prices for stock o right nt at home Chances are very r favorable however for tor ono of at two ol eastern ter llIs lines extending their roil toward tord the tho CORt coast and tapping mite lovely valley en route within the I next two or three years years