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Show NEVADA DESERT NOT PROMISING FOR SHEEP Conditions on Winter Range Reported to Be in Exceedingly Poor Condition. Salt Lake, Sept. 9 V. M. Pratt has Just returned from a somewhat extended visit at Callao, Utah, and vicinity. vi-cinity. While out In that region he .pent considerable time on the Great American desert, making observations as to conditions there. He says that the outlook for winter sheep grazing on the desert Is extremely bad. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the fact that heretofore many flocks were taken on the desert from Idaho and Wyoming, as well as Irom other localities In Utah, to winter, win-ter, the prospect Is that no such sheep exodus will occur thld year. Mr. Pratt says that the extremely dry season has left the range in an impoverished condition, denuded of t-getailon and giving to the desert the appearance of a fire-swept plain H Is reported by flockmasters, he 8jys, that not In twenty years has the oiiuooK been so uninviting to the Hi een man. Already hundreds of sheephave died, and there Is grave iipprehcnslon that further great losses will be sustained In addition to the fact that tho flockmasters will be obliged to re-oort re-oort to feeding this winter, the situation situ-ation Is rendered the more difficult lii the circumstance that no feed can be purchased anywhere within reasonable rea-sonable reach of the desert and Its herds All In all, says Mr. Pratt, the prospect Is drear, Indeed. |