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Show GRASSHOPPERS DESTROY RANGE WASHINGTON, July 14 Drought In the Dorthwest is seriously affecting I the cattle men, threatening tbem with 1 groat losses and possibly with flnan clal ruin. The lack of raJn and a scourge of grasshoppers have goaded ' a number of sheep growers of Montana Mon-tana to make urgent telegraphic appeals ap-peals to the forest servlco that tho Beartooth and Absaroka National , forest reserves be thrown opeu to the 1 flocks. Associate Forester Potter today telegraphed tho district forester at Missoula Instructing blm to orfer all relief possible without Injury to the forests. The Boartooth reserves already accommodates ac-commodates 24.000 head of sheep and 110,000 are being grazed In tho Ab-j Ab-j saroka. The cattlemen' living odja-' odja-' cent to the reserves claim that 100,-000 100,-000 adltlonal bead can be Installed on the ranges. Secretary Wilson appealed to the railroad companies to give the sheep , men In Montana special rates in order or-der to permit of the movement of j starving sheep to better ranges. I He also authorized an Increase ' of 14,700 head of sheep In the Coal-j Coal-j vllle forest In Washington. |