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Show DEAL OF SI IS MADE II SHEEP Stewart-Harding Company of Salt Lake Dispose of Their Holdings. The entire holdings of the Stewart-Harding Stewart-Harding Sheep company. Including 35,000 acres of range lands in T'tah and Wyoming Wyo-ming and 10.500 sheep, have been sold to W H Orant and V. It. tlupman of Sttlt Iji'ke and James W. Brown of American Fork. . . The purchase price was in excess of $5ii ooo. The price paid for the stock sheep of the company, which are choice L'otswolds. was 59 a head for lambs and ewes alike. The owners of the Stewart-Harding Sheep company were C. B. Stewart and Barnard J. Stewart of this city and E. v. Hun! ins and George F. Beekstcad of Provo. The land sold consisted of 25,000 acres of summer range in Ftah and adjacent lambing grounds in Wyoming and 10,000 acres of winter range in Wyoming. Dellver-v of the company's holdings Is to he completed, according to the terms of the deal, by October 1, active work of preparation for turning them over having already been begun. The price paid for the sheep. ?9 a he..d, is a record-breaker for stock or range sheep. The Stewart-Harding company's sheep are admittedly choice stock. The woo! brought 32 cents a pound last year, 10 cents higher than t tie clip from sheep of poor blood and aa high as any paid for tin? best clips in Utah and Wyoming. The selling out of the Stewart-Harding company's holdings does not eliminate C. B. and Barnard J. Stewart from the class of the state's wool growers. Both continue to hold rather extensive interests. inter-ests. C. B. Stewart is a holder of stock in the Piedmont I -and & livestock company. com-pany. Barnard J. Stewart Is a stockholder In the Brigham Sellers Sheep company. |