Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 6 | Southern Utah Cattle Starve

SOUTHERN UTAH CATTLE STARVE Hundreds of Heads Reported Dead or Dying; Limited Feed Almost Prohibitive With blizzards starting prior to Thanksgiving last year and with a winter which necessitated the feeding of stock, farmers and cattlegrowors of tho Powell and Bcvler forests are experiencing difficulty in keeping the stock from starving to death, according accord-ing to word received at the forest offices. of-fices. - ' Supervisor Gj H. Barney reports that ranchers -aro-4 hauling hay oyer almost impassalflc'1' mountain roads through heavy mud nnd snow. The haul from Escalanto Is over 30 miles and with hay at. $25 per ton. few farmers or stockmen can ,fford to transport feed in sufficient quantities to save their stock, it Is said. Many ranchers are feeding their cattle oats, with no roughage. Unusual weather Is prevailing in that section of the state. Supervisor Barney reports, the temperature "being "be-ing two ifnd a half degrees below zero on 'April 1. Hundreds of head of cattle are reported re-ported to be dying or' dead from star- ation.