Show i d n lAKE I TAKES M MORE HE P PRESTIGE As Sm STOCK K CENTER f nR I rowers Make Headquarter t tere ter s i in City Grazing M Meet t on January 24 iii I With livestock markets contin- contin py Moving ing nearer nearer to centers of ol lon Salt Lake may expect enhance from year to o year ear Its Sidon n as a leading market In Inc recent c cI I t issue of its bulletin ArO ArouS Ar- Ar O ouS our Co says The nce n nce e of Salt Lake City as ns a lh live live- e- e market today is reflected by bye e act that it has become the of a anum number bel of live live- oc ock and wool associations The association ail its headquarters in Salt Ik ke fand and holds its conventions at ular zular intervals The American tin tl na Livestock a association r m Sto Salt Lake this year ear Jan Jan- r 25 95 G 6 ar and d 2 27 A second graz- graz ri c conference between between stockmen d of the United States e e ice will be held in Salt ke January 24 the same day as convention of the Utah This is furr fur- fur r Ion of Salt Lake as the ground of livestock men st S ear a similar conference was d ere prior to the hearings of senate subcommittee on public nd surveys 1 few ew years vears ago livestock hand band han han- d n transit was the principal m f business of the Salt Lake ion stoc stockyards ards according to a ac aro ro c of J T II H l genii gen- gen ii 11 anger nager Today the Salt Lake ugh tel figures have mounted to poi r commanding respect The ui- ui ures indicate that Salt Lake is ista t only a stopping point for stocken stock- stock eq en route with their shipments ta the tho east or to the Pacific coast It s ble to absorb a consider consider- le Ie flume lume in her local packing tots and on the retail market nd including 1926 Salt Lake eking houses had slaughtered a end total of approximately cattle hogs and ep CP This volume was handled In period following 1916 the year alt Lake yards were estabI I d in their present location ID a er this number of stock Salt J packers have paid tely to producers In int t region since 1916 st of the slaughter fis figs fig fig- s over the several years shows r following following situation r e 1926 figures estimated on basis of ten months actual tighter Cattle head s sj head she sheep p id ld 1925 Hogs head rep ep p head cattle id idi 1922 hogs head ep yep ep OOOO head cattle 1 id td f 1920 hogs head ep ep head and cattle attle 14 i lead 1916 hogs 1000 head ep head cattle 1000 head the he Intermountain Livestock l w sponsored each year YEal by the stock committee of the Salt k ke f hamber of commerce is deO de- de O g into one of the leading S ck k shows sho of the west It has eral different aims 1 to t in better feeding of stock s ck 2 to Instill Interest in highest type of dairy activity i up to stimulate Interest in bo boys boys' s' s I 1 girls girls' girls girls' livestock club work and and ft develop Salt Lake City as Restock istok center LIDS DAIRY HERDS wo wo years ago the I tain show made a contribution to intermountain mountain daIrying which willbe willbe will willbe be remembered The show brought to Salt Lake Its dairy judge W W. S. S of ot St. St Elmo WIs Mr II l is one-of one the leading judges under un-der the banners of the Holstein Holstein- Friesian association His Ills pronouncements pronouncements pronouncements pro pro- to Holstein exhibitors exhibitors exhibitors tors at the Intermountain show led to the formation of the first Utah state all-state Holstein herd This herd went to the tho Pacific International nal Livestock exposition at Portland and Sarah Ann Duplicate owned b by C. C S. S Potter of Ogden was judged American all-American Holstein cow for the year This honor probably never would have been accorded had iad not the herd been formed and Sarah Ann taken out where other judges could see her Last year ear J. J B. B Fitch of Kansas a dairy Judge familiar with all leading breeds came to to the Salt Lake show Professor Fitch Pitch was judge ludge at qt the American Royal at Kansas Cit City this fall faU His words at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake show were generous generous generous gener gener- ous to the Utah breeders of dairy stock The The national ram show and sale of the National association association association as as- brings to Salt Lake each year the country's leading breeders of range sheep Salt Lake d does es not cease to function as a ram market market market mar mar- ket with the close of the sale Many breeders continue to consign to Salt Bait Lake even after the sale dates and andra ra range lango ngo looking for good stock Block invariably a hI turn to Salt Lake |