| Show LOSSES VII BE LIGHT Good Uoi ttR Received From All tlC Sheep CnmiiH Unless there are some radical changes before the return of the open season the loss in sheep sustained by the flockmasters of the territory will be extremely light compared with the havoc which has been wrought by the elements during some recent years Asa As-a matter of fact the number of winter killed sheep will cut a very slight figure fig-ure in the calculations of the years business for all of the reports received from the camps are to the effect that the flocks are wintering better than for years and the sheep will come out in the spring in splendid shape One sheepman who Is the owner of 5000 head of wool growers yesterday reported re-ported that he had thus far lost but three head during the winter and of those three two were bucks which had been overworked and allowed to get very thin before the coming of the snow This Is the history of practically practic-ally all the herds throughout the territory terri-tory and also In Wyoming where many of the Utah sheep are wintered So well are the flocks doing out on the eastern deserts along the line of the Rio Grande Western that the owners have announced that they will commence com-mence shearing by the latter part of March The snow Is going rapidly and the annual migration to the shearing districts will begin within the next few weeks Veteran butchers and sheepmen were surprised yesterday by the appearance in the local market of spring lambs weighing In the neighborhood of thirty pounds It is seldom that the youngsters young-sters are prepared for market before the middle of April and the Main street butcher who had secured the prizes made the most of his enterprise by charging a handsome price for the lambs lambsA whole it was a fair business week with the Union Stockyards and a total of 994 head of live stock was handled by the yards Of thee 126 head were cattle 427 head were hogs and 441 head were sheep The Utah Slaughtering company took 770 head and Stephens Co 215 head |
