Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-09
wY0MING,s STOCK.
Cattle worth More Than before the
storm.


storm.
Reports Of the effects OF the yraat
storm upon cattle have now reached
Cheyenne from every part of the Terri
tory. Every ranch has been heard
from. Men have ridden over every
district where cattle range. The re-
port in every case has been small loss
es. Not one disastrous loss has been
reported. The foremen in charge of
great herds report seeing on their
range u few, ut most a score, of carcaas-
cs.
1t seems incredible ts travellers along
the railroad that such should be the
true condition of things. They have
seen many, they believe hundreds, of
dead cattle along the railroad. They
also see wide expanses of country
covered with deep layer of snow.
They cannot imagine how cattle can
find subsistence when the ground Is
covered with deep snow. They 20 east
and report disaster to the stock growers
Of Wyoming.
The alarmists are wrong in their inn
pressions, and an explanation of the
true condition of cattle and OF the graz
ing districts of the territory should con-
vince all that, instead of looking upon
the situation with anxiety, there Is
room for the most hopeful outlook.
The dead cattle seen along the rail-
road track have been killed by the
cars. From the beginning of the
storm up to the present time the Wy
oming Stock-growers' Association has
lost about 600 head killed in this man.
ner, out of $50, 900. The railroad track
being for time the only open road, cat
tie crowded upon 1t in great numbers,
and herd sometimes would have sew
eral killed before being driven away
1t must be remembered that The
railroad runs through the level coun
try, notably the Laramie plains
where the snow has not drifted. Bacl
i'm the bluffs there have been bar
spots since the day on which the snow
has not driftod. Back in the bluff
there have been bare spots since TIL
day on which the snow stopped falling
The cattle flock in among the hill
and avoid the open country.
The actual condition of Wyomin
herds to-day is good, considering tn
storm. Some weak old cows may "
die; cattle are not so fat as before tn
storm, Of course, yet they are far fror
failing condition. II no wors
weather than usual is encounters
|; from the present date till the close ,
; winter, cattle will come out in Tn
spring looking well The fine weatl
l er of the past few days will doubles
: be lived over again between now an
| the lst of April.
+ A leading stock grower was see
4 yesterday by the writer and asked Ia
| opinion. He said "For twelve yea
e men have been fearing the great storl
I, that was to come. 1t has come,
9 did not, as was expected, kill off
| per cent. of the cattle of Wyoming
1t did do what the most sanguine
us hoped it might dot proved thu
the climate of Wyoming is equal
any i'm the world for cattle raising
The losses do no exceed one p,
cent, and cattle are not thi
: now; their condition is goo
: Do YOU know what the losses
= Texas have been by this late bf
: weather? They have been doub
: Wyoming's in proportion. thin
!, all doubts will be removed from Il
- minds of our Eastern friends abo
~ this being the best cattle count
/. when they get at the truth. The b
- storm has been here, with unheard
a. cold weather-the mercury down
10 80 below zero, and our cattle are
right. / believe that the increas
confidence is such as TO make cattle
the ranges in the territory actua
worth 81 to So a head more than
re fore the storm. Cheyenne Leader.