, 1899-02-28
STOCK NOTES
CATTLE BEING WE'LL CARED FOR
AND THE LOSSES WILL
BE LIGHT.
Losses WIZ Come With Spring Storms
-Ranchmen Having Hay Will Not
Lose-Expense of Feeding Will be
Heavy-Whatt Some Stockmen Say
Of the Situation.

the storm and stock losses. said tina
, the cattle at Riverside ranch are doine
fine and no loss at all. All their stock
was being we'll fed, he said, and they
had not eve lost much flesh. The
sheep were under shelter both on thu
Big Laramie and at Cooper creek and
were in good shape. An amusing cir.
cumstance occurred during the blizzard
which shows what a little care will do
When the thermometer was hugging
the mark at 40 degrees below zero some
thirty-five or more calves were borr
and lit was expected that most Of them
would die, although they were shelter
ed and cared for a. much as possible
but the worst they suffered was the loss
of both ears and the tail, which were
frozen off and these little animals are
very much alive and look more like
bob cats than cattle-perhaps a new
breed might be started and called
Klondike stock. The weather has been
very severe on the plains and Mr..
Winkler says that although he will be
the ranch. still he will have enough to
keep up a full feed till grass comes.
A ranchman living on the river came
to him recently and said he would lose
all his cattle If he didn't get some hay,
and Mr.. Winkler allowed him to take
thirty tons. although his own stock
Mr.. Winkler and D. C. Bacon came in
yesterday from their ranch in a sleigh
and they had a very hard trip. The
wind was blowing hard and the drift
ing snow was so bad that at times il
was almost impossible to see the horses
ahead.
F. S. King of the firm of King Bros.
who have a large number Of sheep on
Horse creek over the hill about fifteen
miles from Laramie, was in town yes
terday and stated that he had divided
his sheep in two punches. One bunch
Of $500 was driven over the hills and
through the snow to Fishers ranch on
the Laramie river. where hay could be
hauled to them and he is compelled to
pay $500 per % for loose hay, de-
liyered. and as each head can easily
use three to four pounds per day it
would take from four to five tons a
day to keep them in shape. Another
bunch whoch has been fed at E. P.
Bakers ranch for some weeks has been
driven over to Horse creek station on
the Cheyenne and Northern railroad
to be near hay. If the snow does not
go off soon it may be necessary to ship
to Nebraska in order to prevent loss
and reduce expense of keeping. He es-
Inmates his loss at less than s per cent.
H. d. Richardson, another flock
master living on Horse creek east of
Laramie, was in town and said that he
had already lost 300 head and if the
weather did not improve very much
this week he would lose nearly all his
sheep. He has about $500 head and
says that although the now has blown
off the tops of the hills that the gulches
and hollows are full. There is good
feed on the hills but it is a hard mat
ter to get a flock to it.
E. H. Thornton, near Lookout, thir-
ty-five miles northeast of Laramie, has
a large bunch OF sheep and not much
hay left. Unless a change comes before
his hay runs out he will lose heavily.
Otto Burns, foreman of the Homer
branch at Red Buttes, was seen and says
that the cattle in his charge are in good
shape but using lots of hay and he will
have to purchase more soo He fears
heavy stock losses in the last Of March
and through April because the hay will
be gone, cattle will be weak and no
grass and the wet storms will deoi-
mate a herd rapidly under such condi-
lions.
DR.. VIM. Harris, who is feeding
$500 or more cattle at the Mill Brook
ranch this winter reports his cattle in
good shape and practically no loss
through the storm.
Hon. John Reid had an experience
Sunday which was not enjoyable and
which he will not soon forget. He left
his ranch on the Little Laramie at !
o'clock to come to town and got in the
wfndstorm, and having a farm wagon
progress was necessarily slow. The
snow was deep and the wagon pulled
heavy, the wind blew the snow in
binding sheets so that the horses had
TO wallow their a along. After
struggling along for over nine hours he
reached town at 10 O'Clock at night, the
,horses and driver quite exhausted and
Suffering some from the exposure.
A. M. Good, the we'll known ranch
man living south OF town near Red
Buttes, was in the city today and re-
ports that the cold has caused more
damage among stock than the snow, as
most of the ranchmen in that vicinity