Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-27 | Page 13 | Rams Bring Big Prices at Sale

liHiyiO BO silo D!o PHICESAT.SALE Many Prominent Sheepmen Gather at Fourth Annual An-nual Event Here. With a gathering of 200 or more sheep raisers and buyers from all parts of the country as an audience, the fourth annual ram sale of the National Woolgrowers' association opened at the state fait grounds yesterday afternoon. The first day's business was limited to offerings of Rambotiillet rams and .ewes and in the session the sales totaled 549,477.50. The highest price of the day was paid for a Itamoouiliet ram from the University Univer-sity of Illinois by tiie Butterfield Livestock Live-stock com pan v of Weiser, Idaho, which bid SKJOO before it could get the prize winner of the eastern agricultural college. col-lege. A close second was the Bullard Brothers' ram, which C. A. Kimble of Hanford, Cal., bought for $1450. Sales as a whole were sjow and the buyers were careful in placing their bids, though occasionally there was considerable considera-ble and spirited competition for particularly particu-larly des-irable sheep. The bidding for D. W. Candland's eleven head of Rambouillet j yearling ewes was particularly keen and the prize breeders brought a price of $lS-5 each. The highest price for ewes was paid for seven head offered by tiie Butterfield Livestock company at $220 each ,by the Baldwin Sheep company of Hay Creek, Ore. Dwight B. Lincoln, the auctioneer from Marysvihe, Ohio, kept the bidders interested, both in the offerings and his comments on them. When their attention would begin to lag, he reminded them to "keep their minds on their lesson," and they followed his lead. S. W. McClure, secretary of the National Woolgrowers' association, assisted the auctioneer. F. J. Hagenbarth, president of the sheepmen's sheep-men's organization, started the saics by stating that provision has-been made for bringing hay to the drought-stricken regions re-gions should the "hay profiteers" continue con-tinue to ask exorbitant prices for their fodder. He said that, while he was not at liberty to state what these arrangements are, the sheepmen can rest assured their interests will be cared for. The following named firms sold either rams or ewes at the sale yesterday: Mortensen and Burton, Clark & Co., Butterfield Livestock company, W. W. Pendleton, Quealy Sheep company, C. N. Stillman, W. S. Hansen, Hobbs and ! Gillett, J. H. Seely. Bullard Brothers, F. I S. King Brothers company, W. D. Cand-land, Cand-land, C. P. Raup, University of Illinois, ; A. A. Wood & Co., J. K. Madsen, A. J. Knollin and J. M. Moran. The buvers were as follows: C. W. Dent of Lake view, Ore., S. F. Rigbv of Castle Rock, Utah. IMannix and Wilson of Goldcrcek, Mont., C. N. Stillman of Sigurd, Utah, Cunningham Sheep and Livestock company of XJendleton, Ore., A. B. Whitehead of Del Rio, Texas, Deer Lodge Farms company of Deer Lodge, Mont., A. S. Mann of Ukiah, Cal., F. S. King Brothers of Laramie, Wyo., C. A. Kimble of Hanford, Cal., C. N. Mannix of Helmville, Mont., Bureau of Animal Industry, Dubois, Idaho, Mrs. F. J. Far-low, Far-low, Lauder, Wyo., Butterfield Livestock company of Weiser, Idaho, James Iaid-law Iaid-law of Muldoon, Idaho, Baldwin Sheep company of Hav Creek, Ore., R. A. Jackson, Jack-son, Dayton, Wash., J. H. Seely, Mt. Pelasant, Utah, William Hislop, Spokane, Wash., Archie Pry or. North Yakima, Wash.. Austin Brothers, Salt Lake, G. B. Williams, Elko, New, C. W. Dent. Lake-view, Lake-view, Ore, C. P. Raup. Springfield, Ohio, W. S. Hansen, Collington, Utah, John Findlay, lender, Wyo., K. J. Barlow, Lander. Wvo., A. S. Mann. Ukiah, Cal., C. H. Hopkins. Woodland, Cal., J. D. Car-micbacl, Car-micbacl, Riverton. Wyo., R. F. Miller, College Station, Texas. These buyers made purchases of individual rams. The following purchased owes: F. J. Far low, sixteen head; Colorado State Reformatory, sixteen head; G. N. Merritt and Son of Woodland, Cal., thirty-head thirty-head ; Deer Lodge Farms company, eleven head; C. N. Stillman, thirty head; Wyoming Wyo-ming Corrtedale company, fifteen head: Baldwin Sheep company, seven head; E. J Karlow, thirty head; J. E. Magleby of Monroe, Utah, twenty-nine head; Fureau of Animal Industry, twenty head; Butterfield Butter-field Livestock company, two head; Cunningham Cun-ningham Sheep company, two head, and O. ' W. Card well of Christoval, Texas, twelve head.