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Show STOCKMEN MAP 1 SIX-CITYSHOVS pmKI M Tto Nwn OGDEN, Jan. 10 Announcement of the organization of a now fall livestock show circuit of tlx key wt and midwest ottle was made today by O. M. Plummer, of Port-land. Port-land. Ore, general manager of the Pacific International Livestock show. The new drcuM will swing Into action during the latter months of 1940. Cities embraced m the enterprise are Portland, Ore, San Francisco, Lot Angeles, Ogden, Kansas City and Chicago. Efforts to draw up such a circuit have been under study since June when representatives of the six shows discussed the venture at the Golden Gate exposition In California. Califor-nia. George S. Eccles, president of the Ogden Livestock show, formally for-mally approved tiia circuit for Ogden Og-den today. Mr. Plummer, veteran stock snow expen, oeecnoea ine ueup as the "biggest circuit of ks kind on earth." Organization of the huge enterprise, has been made possible through the disorganization disorganiza-tion of large livestock show circuits cir-cuits in the midwest and the east, -he- said. For the last 30 years Ogden has held its stock show during midwinter mid-winter months, usually In January. A fall show, officials declared, will prove particularly beneficial to in-termountain in-termountain state breeders of feeder and dairy cattle, and also enhance the interest of purebred breeders. From an economical standpoint, the "big six" circuit will enable eastern and midwestern producers to "make" their trips Into the west at less expense, while adding to their winnings. The premium money which could be offered to each breed taken as a combined purse of the six shows would shoot up to the ,100,000 figure, it is believed. Dates for the new faH circuit put Ogden on the map November 5 to 11. Announcement of the organization organiza-tion of the big western circuit was received here as the best news from a livestock angle ever to break in Ogden. Ogden will serve as the focal point of the circuit, it was pointed out. The stock show program today gave way to the auction of fat cattle, sheep and swine. This afternoon after-noon some 200 head of Hereford bulls were to be sold. "Bliss Complete." grand champion cham-pion fat hog of the show, owned by T. W. Burkhardt, of Bliss, Idaho, went to the Sun Valley resort. re-sort. Ketchum, Idaho, at $18.50 per hundredweight, to top the sales in awlne for the morning. i Tonight at 6:30 p. m. in the Ben Lomona notei, tne annual stockmen's stock-men's banquet was scheduled to take place. Tuesday the show went Into the final phases of the Judging program, pro-gram, which was concerned with finding winners among Shorthorn and Aberdeen-Angus breeds after Weber county exhibitors swept all major places In the Jersey cattle contests. |