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Show Nash Quads Rescue 17,000 Head of Snow-Bound Cattle For Many Wyoming Men. Heroic measures resorted to in Wyoming cattle country and in which . the famous Nash Quad played the principle role have been rewarded by the saving of 17,000 head of snowbound snow-bound cattle from what seemed certain cer-tain death by starvation. The value of the cattle saved to their owners by the Nash -Quad is approximately a million and a half dollars. Because of the unusually heavy snow storms this winter the cattle found it impossible to burrow for food and a storm which swept that section several weeks ago made the situation desperate. Efforts to carry food across the snow-bound ranges to the cattle proved futile, it being impossible for rear-driven trucks or horse-drawn vehicles to make any progress. Finally bankers and business men at Lawton, Wyoming, formed a pool of $200,000 with which to purchase a large quanity of food and the governor of Wyoming was appealed to by them for assistance. In response re-sponse to the appeal the governor authorized F. B. Allen, Superintendent Superintend-ent of the Wyoming State Highway Motor Transport to place in rescue twelve Nash Quads. The Quads were loaded with two-tons of baled alfalfa and a determined "drive" was made for the imperiled cattle. The storm had left from eighteen Inches to three feet of snow which had formed drifts from six to eight feet in depth. Sheepmen from the surrounding country rounded up one hundred head of horses and drove them into drifts ahead of the cavalcade caval-cade of Quads. With the opening thus made the Quads plunged into Into the heavy banks of snow and the struggle to reach the ranges was begun. be-gun. Those who participated in the rescue res-cue were amazed at the ability of the Quads to progress in the face of conditions con-ditions that had theretofore proved 'insurmountable. The work of rescue res-cue accupied a number of days, and t brought the ordeal the Quads performed per-formed feats which those in the party hnd believed impossible of accomplishment. |