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Show FAT STOCK DISPLAY u TO mwm Second Exhibition at Yards in North Salt Lake Will Be Record-Breaker. JUDGES ARE SELECTED List-,of Entries Announced .for Show Indicates General Gen-eral Interest. 1 Three .times bigger Thau the first I display, with exhibits of a far superior su-perior grade, the soeond annual Fat Stoek .'show will have its formal open- in;; at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon j J the Salt Lake I'nion stockyards in .Tth Salt Lake, ami will continue un-tiT. un-tiT. Saturday afternoon. Officials of the Interniouutaiu Stock Show association, under whose auspices jrhe event will take place, say it will Fivthe largest show for a second at-rvtnpt at-rvtnpt ever produced in the west. yO" the opening day delegates from he Commercial club. Kotary club and j pjks ' lodge will participate. , ' Xo pains have been spared to clean j up- the yards to a spic-and-spau condition, condi-tion, so that they will present an at-j tractive aspect to the crowds that are i expected. Special invitations have brrn extended to women and children. I TThe opening day, Thursday, has been ttrignated as Salt Lake day: Friday. (Jaho day; Saturday, closing day, Utah lay. ;', The livestock will be sold under the auctioneer 's hammer beginning at 10 o'clock Friday morning. Buyers rep- I resenting the leading packers and commission com-mission houses of the west will be on land to make a lively session. ;cMany of the entries are already on tljb ground. Among the first to arrive were the Austin Brothers' lambs. Fat 'Wether Arrives. The grand champion fat wether of the National Western Livestock show, which has been donated to the Red Cross by the Intermountain Stock s-how association, arrived last Friday and has been the object of great interest in-terest among patriotic Red Cross enthusiasts en-thusiasts who visited the yards Fri-I day and yesterday. I The wether is considered by experts who visited the International Livestock show at Chicago and the National , Western show at Denver, to be the most perfect specimen ever put on i exhibition in the United States. Since the Denver show the animal ! has been on the ranch of A. .1. Knollin I at Soda Spring, Idaho, being groomed and put in tip-top shape, for the Salt Lake show. This wether brought the record price of 50 cents a pound at the Denver show, where it was bought- by the Intermountain In-termountain Stock Show association. It is expected to surpass this record when it is auctioned for the Red Cross, the date for which has not yet been announced. an-nounced. The animal will probably be brought down town tomorrow and placed on exhibition. Another fat wether, donated to the Red Cross by a West .Ionian stockman, is expected to arrive in Salt Lake Wednesday. This will be auctioned off during the show. F. A. Starkweather of Blnckfoot, Idaho, 1ms donated one fat lamb to the Knights of Columbus Soldiers Welfare Wel-fare association anil one to the V. M. C. A., to be sold at auction. The official colors of the show will be yellow and black. All the prize ribbons have arrived and will be on exhibition down town tomorrow. The Salt Lake press will be supplied with badges tomorrow also. Committee Is Named. For the purpose of stirring up rivalry between the Commercial club, Rotary club, Alta club and Elks' club, the Commercial club has appointed a committee com-mittee which will meet at a noon luncheon tomorrow to consider the methods it will pursue. The committee includes Stanley S. Stevens, chairman: K. F. Redman. C. A. Quigley. C. B. Stewart. Glen Miller, John Klliott Clark. C. r. Carlson, dr.. A. H. Cook, .lohn S. Corless and Herbert Her-bert llirsehmau. The committee will aim to stimulate bids on the sheep to be sold for the Red Cross and other war benefit organizations, or-ganizations, and to give the show a big send-off next Thursday. Following a luncheon next Thursdav noon. it is planned to have a string of fifty or seventy-five automobiles parade pa-rade the down-town district to the Salt Lake Union stockyards, for the formal for-mal opening of the show at 2 o'clock. .luilges have been selected as follows: fol-lows: For sheep A. J. Knollin of Pocatel-lo. Pocatel-lo. Idaho, vice president of the National Na-tional Woolgrowers association, recognized recog-nized throughout the United States as one of the leading sheep growers of the continent and an authority on the woollv tribe. For cattle 11. F. Blavuev of Denver, Den-ver, head cattle buver at the Denver yards for the Coffin Racking & Provision Pro-vision company. For hogs Scotty Wood of Denver, head hog buyer at Denver for Swift & Co.; oue of the best informed men in the countrv on hogs. Judging A ill start at 10 o'clock next Thursday morning. April 4. All entries en-tries must be on ground not later than April L List of Entries. Individual fat cattle: Jehu .-elcv, Mr. Pleasant, Utah. :; : Wint liortmi Brothers, Charleston. Utah. .": Utah Agricultural college, I.uyan, ; J. J. Oldham, Salt Lake, 1. Fat car He, carloads: Hansen Livestock Live-stock ic Feeding conipauv. Ogdcn. -J cars, extra fancy: John Hess. ".Mala. I. Idaho, i car; Rieh-Living-ton eompanv, Salt Lak. . -ars: (i. T. Olson. Kilter',-, Utah. 1 ar: J. C. Loncrgan, Salt Lake, i! cars: Portland Feeder eompanv, Bur-lev, Bur-lev, Idaho. 1 car; Alex Robl.' Idaho Falls, Idaho, -J cars; P. K. Willard-son, Willard-son, Monroe, Utah. 1 car; Kniil Pauls, Mattson, Colo., 1 c:ir. Sheep: Austin Brothers association, Salt Lake, u' rar fat. lambs; F. A. Starkweather. Hlackfoot, Idaho, 1 car fat lambs: Waltrr Stcadman, Sandy. 1 car fat lambs; .1. T. Kdwards, Idaho Falls. Idaho. 1 cars fat lambs. llog: F. A. Starkweather, Black-foot, Black-foot, Idaho.' 1 car: Dan Owen, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 2 cars; John Hcs, Mala. I. Idaho. I car; Walter James, Black Rock, Utah, 1 car; K.-.ra Budge, l'aris, Idaho. 2 cars: S. ('. Putnam, North Salt Lake, 1 car: Kind Paul, Mattson, Colo., l! cars. There iv ill likely be a few more entries, en-tries, as the lit is open until tomorrow. tomor-row. In addition to the stock to be entered in compt-: it ion, there will be a car of t hor ouglibrcd Duroc Jer-cv bree-HM - hogs, which wid le c h ibit ,! and offered lor sale by Burt Hart of Lotigmont, t'olo. M. K. ParoiM - I'o. of alt Lake will exhibit and offer for sale son yearling stc.-rs and h.-.f.-r ' and one carload of lUrolord bull-. Par-so!,-. A: D. lmus will oiler for sale be'd two-v.ar-old steers. I |
