Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1903 — CATTLE ARE DYING BY THE THOUSANDS [ARTICLE]

CATTLE ARE DYING BY THE THOUSANDS

Fearful Loss of Stock Is Reported From Ranges in Northwestern Colorado. Denver special: Thousands of cattle are starving on the ranges in northwestern Colorado. Their owners have been appealed to by the humane society, but have answered that they are eager to save their stock if they can, as a matter of business, as well as humanity, but that they cannot do IL The cattle are snowed in on the high range in Routt and Rio Blanco counties, without pasture and without water. It is impossible to get feed to them, and equally impossible to drive them Into suitable winter quarters. The replies to letters sent out as a result of investigations by Agent Kerr are all of the same tenor. If the humane society can suggest a way to save the animals the owners will be only too glad to avail themselves of it. Because of the lack of pasture elsewhere, thousands more than the usual number of cattle were turned out in the highlands of northern Colorado.