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Iwas injured. The area uf land inured was about ten acres. jjei I uom Kastkun — Mwin.' X(i Asa and David Mcl'ully, who arrived C) at Salem from Kris tern Oregon lost . week, inform t!ie that thev '0 * w ^1 left Craud Itonde Valley on the 19th ^ I inst, crossed the ISltie mountains in a jsleigh, the mo»t pleasant modcoftrav- o td in*' under I he circti mala rices, the snow 11being t\\ o feet deep on an average. 1*ei i OAt W illow creek the snow was butL.! esix inches deep and very soft. At it John I lav's the snow was eiirhtecn *# Ipinches, with a heavy crust. The snowfigrew deeper as they neared the ( Dalles, nt which place it was two feet (| deep. They report that at Antelope valley and upper W illow creek the r miow was almost entirely gone. The h i cattle in those sections of’ t!»e country 1• j|. i had suffered but little, and but few or t.none, had died. The severest wcath- u | er has been experienced in the vicini-r* t v of the I lallcs. For nO miles around a2 the snow is about two feet deep with ^ - an icv crust so thick us to render it almost impossible to bestow upon stock* anv care whatever. Cattle utterly ( - ». [ refuse* to travel and their owners have -t tried in vain to collect them. The 2 weather, however, is moderating and r ’ a general thaw is predicted. The de* t 1 struction of cattle in Kasterti Oregon v
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Albany State Rights Democrat
Albany, Oregon, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1872
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