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Show 0TI,!. SALES TOTAL OVERS70.000 Auctioneers Work at Top Speed to Dispose of All Remaining Stock on Closing Day of Sale Tha closing day t th national ram aala, now la progress at tha Bait Lake Union stockyards, found tha auctioneers and their assistants going at top speed In th hop of selling everything off end by 4:t o'clock: this aftarnoon. At noon today mora than I70.OO worth of rama had bean, sold.- with tlJ aa the top prioe for a elngle stud Hampahlr ram offered by H. I Finch of Boda Springs. Idaho, and purchased by th Wood Livestock company of Bpenoer, Ida. - Four hundred dollar la tha highest price paid ao far for a Ramboulllet ram. but aoma choice offerings are being mada thla afternoon, and this price may b xoeeded. At last year aala Ramboulllet ram topped tha aala at l7. While Hampshire rams appeared to ba much In demand thla morning morn-ing and yesterday afternoon, awea of tha aam bread went begging for buyers. Many pens of Hampshire Hamp-shire ws wr offered thla morning, morn-ing, but tho highest bid received was ao low that tha auctioneer refused re-fused to aelL They ara bow f-fered f-fered at private sale. HAMPSHIRE MINOS Mttk Tha asoond highest price for a Hampahlr ram waa MM paid by Jams Laldlaw. Muldoon. Idaho, to H. ' U Finch, and Mr. Lee Charles Millers prise ram ranked third In aala price, being sold to John : Kebeker A Boa of Lake-town, Lake-town, Utah, for (10. Four other rams from Mrs. Mlllef a flock brought tut, tilt, fit and respectlvsly. No ens aoneared t a want any mora Corrledalea. Three ram were offered, one about tha sis of a small Shetland pony, but tha auctioneer auc-tioneer rafussd to let them go at the price offered. The University of Idaho sold one Suffolk ram to Jams Laldlaw for 111 and thla waa, the top price paid for a ram. In thla division. Mr. Laldlaw la a famoaa aheep-ralasr aheep-ralasr and la tha originator of tha Panama breed. Or. & W, McChira. former secretary of tha National Woobrrowere association, sold a Lincoln ram for t& and the University Uni-versity of Idaho sold on at the same type for Ml Both went to D. B. Drake of Chains, Idaho. Robert Blastock of Filer, Idnh. sold a pan of eight Suffolk rang ram to O. W. Bond of Lamar, Colo, at IM par head. CWC SILLS FOR 164. John K. Madsen of Mount Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Utah, paid the Quealy Sheep company ofCokevtlle. Wyo., tltt for a elngle Ramboulllet ewe. this being th top price for ewe la any type. Senator W. D. Candland of Mount Pleasant sold a aw ot the sama breed to John Jensen ot Moroni Mo-roni for IIM. aad J. E. Magelby A Bona ot Monro sold nine Cotswnld ewe to R. W, Brown, Qraatevlll. for It each. J. O. Moras of Helena, Mont, known aa th "Father of tha Montana Mon-tana Hampshire" and for mar thaa thirty years a breeder of this type of sheep, waa an interested spectator and buyer at th aala Ha Is taking homo with him a number ot Hampshire rama that pleaaed htm while in the aala ring. Mr. Mora la vary optlmletlc about tha future of th sheep Industry In th United States ana state that tha business la being reorganised along safe, eane and conservative lines following the wartime Inflation In-flation of prices and tha subsequent subse-quent disastrous . deflation which caught tha breeders unaware. Mr. Mores la not only on of th beet known breeders of Hampahlr stock In th' West, but hs also finds time to run about to.000 range sheep at th sama stock. "Upon tha whole." aald Mr. Morse this morning, "tha price being paid for ram stuff at tha pressnt aala ara about what they should be. having regard to tha present condition of tho industry aad lta future outlook." Robert M. Waddell of th agricultural agri-cultural department of tho . University Uni-versity of Missouri la attending the sale on behalf of tha Missouri sheep reisers. Ha a tat a that Missouri Mis-souri Is becoming mora and mors Interested In sheep, although th cl Users ot that state will never abandon entirely the culture of the famous- Missouri muni, h said this morning. ' - , On all aide praises for the management man-agement ot th sale can be heard from both sellers and buyers, aad the klndneee and courtesy ot the stockyards company hava received many words of com mecdatioa from tba vialtora. |
