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Show WYOMING SHEEP LOSSES HEAVY According to a dlspatcli to the Des-eret Des-eret News from Lander, Wyoming, the losses that threaten the sheep Industry Indus-try of that state will be very heavy. The dispatch In part Is as follows: "Although the weather has moderated moder-ated in central Wyoming, range eon-dltlonH eon-dltlonH continue unfavorable, sheep and cattle have been able to graze a portion of each day on the high divides di-vides from which the wind of the past 10 days has removed all snow, but the animals, owing to the extremely cold weather of Dec-mber and the first two weeks of January, are thin and not strong enough to rustle feed as Is their custom at this season of the year, practically all stock has been fed on feed where owners could get hay or grain to tho animals, and as they have come to expect this treatment they reluctantly push out Into the hills for grass. "Almost continuously for more than two weeks the Wyoming and Western railroad, Casper to Lander, haa been snowbound, and as fast as one train started out another would become snowbound, engines failed, etc, Sheep men and others ordered hay and grain lu Nebraska, but owing to the blockado, stock owners west of Casper Cas-per have been unable to obtain their aupplioa. and with hay and grain to last only a week longer, tho ltua-tlon ltua-tlon la rapidly becoming critical, and should another snowstorm prevail stockmen from Lanaer and Casper I would suffer severe losses. The railroad rail-road company Is ht-rrylng engines, snow bucking apparatus and shovelers In from the cast, and it in hoped the road will uo opened before the rapidly rapid-ly diminishing supply of hay and grain Is completely exhausted. "The losses to date will not exceed 20 per cent, but unless the supply of nay and grain is delivered this week, utockroen say tho losses will bo heavy." |