Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-27 | Page 14 | Stock Show Sheep Here for Exhibit

STOCK SHOW SHEEP HERE FOR EXHIBIT First Shipment Consists of One Carload Car-load From Kanch of Austin Brothers, Idaho. The first sheep to be exhibited at the intermountaln stock show reached the stock yards yesterday. The shipment consists con-sists of one carload from the ranch of the Austin Brothers' association at Blackfoot, Idaho. They are principally black-face lambs and from the carload of more than 100 fifty will be selected as prize contenders. con-tenders. This morning two carloads of thoroughbred thorough-bred cattle will arrive at the yards from Stewart Brothers. Kntrles are coming1 In rapidly and E. C. Parsons, general manager of the In-termountAin In-termountAin Stock Show association, declares de-clares that at least sixty carloads of blooded cattle will be on exhibation, besides be-sides thirty or forty cars of sheep, hogs and goats. As a market for beef cattle Palt "Lake will offer' every Inducement offered by any other market, with the additional advantage to Utah growers that the shrinkage, duo to long hauls to eastern markets, will be eliminated. Contrary to the custom -which heretofore prevailed in the west when the slock man sold his cattle to the packers direct from the cars, under the system inaugurated since the building of the Salt Lake Union Flock yards all cattle will be fed and watered before being weighed into the pens of the packing companies. San Francisco and Ios Angeles buyers will be at the stock yards eight months of the year and competition for fat stock will be keen and good prices will be maintained. The Cudahy Parking company com-pany alone, a t Its plant adjoining the stock yards, will b In tho market for hundreds of meat animals daily. The Intermonntain stock show will open April 4. All prize stock must be in the yards by April 2.