White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-04
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
AMONG SHEEP FLOCKS
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nit them to be driven about to get
TO new feed as it is required.
Favorable news came to the com
pany office from the south White riy-
er country, including Hot creek and
as far as Coyote valley, about twenty
miles beyond. The company sheep
there were reported in the message
to be safe and doing fine.
Weird brought in by Duckwater and
Currant Creek arrivals is that hay
which had stood in stacks for years,
together with the more recent accum-
ulations, has been sold to the sheep
men there and that 1t saved them
from any heavy loss.
CASTOR Olsen, purchaser of some
5000 of Boundy brothers sheep last
creek country, northwest Of Tippett
looking after them, passed through
here during the week. He confessed
to a heavy loss compared with other
winters in that region but said he
would have a good bunch to move to
Idaho in the spring. He represents
a P~ocatello outfit.
The loss in this part of the state
and western Utah as n whole is
bound to be heavier than last year,
which was worse than the average,
but to attempt an estimate now sheep
owners declare would be inaccurate.
1t may be ) per cent and ii might be
10 per cent before the spring grass
comes for there will be further losses
from now until then. but so far as
reported no whole bands have been
wiped ~ or any large percentage OF
them.
1t is only by good management
that many have been saved that 9th
erwise would have starved. This has
been the sort of a storm that vindi-
Gates the opinion of that school of
sheepmen who believe in keeping to
the foothills and high brush at this
time OF year. The snow Is always
blown off the ridges sooner or later
and gives the sheep a chance to get
around to the feed and there is al
ways a better chance for shelter
without the animals wandering so
far when a storm causes them to
leave their background in the night.
The sheep that were in the flats were
the ones that suffered most during
this storm,
The following is from the Elko
Free Press of March 2:
"A letter received this morning by
Forest Supervisor Mcqueen from
John Yelland, president of the East.
ern Nevada Cattle and Sheep Grow
ers Association, gives some interest.
ing information with regard to the
condition of stock which Is being
wintered in Spring valley, In White
Pine county. Mr.. Yelland is an old
time stockman of his section and
should know whereof he speaks.
According to this letter the four
loot fall of snow of last month has
packed down to one and two feet on
the level and frozen almost solid.
making 1t difficult to break through.
II all depends on the weather within
the next week or two whether or not
big losses will occur in his section.
Mr.. Yelland says that should the
weather fail to moderate In the i'm.
mediate future from one-tnire to a
half OF the sheep being wintered in
that section which are lot on feed
viii in all probability be lost which
means heavy financial reverses for
the wner who are unfortunate
enough to have been in the valley.
However, with the chances good
for a continuation of the compare
lively warm weather of the last two
weeks IL Is hoped that no further
losses Will be incurred"