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Show SNOW STORM WELCOMED BYALL Never wua a enow Btorm more thoroughly thor-oughly welcomed by the theep raisers and farmers of this locality thau the one of the past twenty-lour hours. The value of the lalllug moisture can hardly be counted at the present time, but It la said to uie-Jti the salvation salva-tion of thousands of sheep Jn the Lakeside district, where the drought haj become ulmoi.t unbearable. I Telegraphic reports from various points along the Harrlmun lines tato that between six and eight Inches of rnow ua4 fullen at all points within a rudlous of several huudred mlleu. The Know fall extends weBt as far as Kparka, although It I? much I ghter at that polnL Kaat the Pterin exteuda Into Wvomlng and north far Into Idaho. Ida-ho. OlflclaU of the Southern Pacific railroad say that the drought wa3 reaching a very dangerous leriEth weet of the lako and that the sheep men hording flocks along tho Lakeelde mountains were beginning to fear that they would not be able to obtain water to keep the animals alive. Wu-ter Wu-ter was being hauled by raJrouJ and distributed to keep the sheep from dying of thirst. Some of the herders were beginning to report loes in their herds from the l-k of water and the sheep owners were facing a crisis. This danger has now been happily averted, the belated consignment of the ' beautiful" arriving m the nick of time. While Ihe farmers of the country were not in a position to suffer immediate im-mediate losses from the drought, their prospects of a good leld for next ye,r were becoming very gloomy and they are no less thankful for the snow than are the wool growers oo |