Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-23
INTO \ DESERT.
Colorado Plains Drying Up and
.,,a pco,ie Suffering.

co,orado Plains Drying Up and
the People Suffering.
,r,ra it is exceedingly wet along the
i Unto coast it is very dry out on the
.''. 4 dispatch from Denver to the
/ York World says that toe great
4 ~ ore not and parched and daily they
looming more like the Veritaole
..t lie pioneer days. Not Tor many
has there been sucn a scarclty OF
or i'm Colorado, and especialiy IN tue
q ',nof the Platte. Vegetation is becon-
.rowu and crisp. The grass Is WIN
nalIs are drying up, irrigation
J ines are dry, crops are Ourieu up oy
! intense heat. Cattle are dying, and
I g,,,a points on the plains the people
almost pertshing for water.
y p;tif,I are the tales told by ranchmen
.',,i,. DESTROYED, cattle perishing and
r. tamilies in great danger Of suffering.
\ .rrts from the eastern parts OF Arapa-
I and Weed counties, near The Colorado
u kansas line, represent terrible
If affairs. This section seems
foJ IN disaster ard misfortune. Last
.lt,ter tits estimated that 100 people lost
~, ives near the State line in snow
|torkades and terrible storms that
ovaiIed, Now they are scourged
LIN an intense heat that Is
tInging ruin and disaster. No
l,,,'Trants for many years have sui
"A red such extremes OF neat ana c0id as
H. Induced by the favorable reports
y i5a rainfall of the two previous years.
a ,J influenced by the commonly accepted
s s',rv That the rainfall is each year in
+-sasing and the rain centre moving west
- hundreds of new settlers nave at
+orrtpd raising crops without irriRa-
- but the present season has
- p very unfortunate one,
only the crops totally de-
S,royedand t0eir stock dying. bat the un-
orfnnate rauchmen and their families are
1, some places suffering for water 10
frnb. Nothing but misery is ahead OF
Fam and unless relief of some kind is
sa.r obtained it is said that they will be
ohiaed to move away or perish. Cattle
Iva caoking with thirst, and often the
4 .or brutes are seen standing at the dried
T. watering places with tongues lolling
hi OF their NOUNS.
In some places the wild animals are
1oromtng tame. Even the antelope, the
e,est and most active animals on the
aims. IN some instances have become so
tvuau.ted from thirst that they have been
ta,IIy captured by boys IRON the ranches,
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