Show Reported Sale Of Big Cattle Outfit Proves Unfounded V lilt lile Comp n on Indian Cicek Cleek Ha Has ot 1 Sold to CI Firm 1 press reports In Mon on and published in mans man m newspapers concerning the rumored sale of the Somer Cattle company compan of ot In Ind than dum n Creek Creel s largest catO cattle ranch to a Dens Dem Denser er house are completely I foundation andI and w I ere not t by bl any P p in m a position t to thaw the facts according to a a statement made at MOal MOab by by J A end and an general manager of the S Scorn S corn pan pan The company compan has 1135 not sold out Weare We are st still l i just asI as I we se e and our pre ors OrS or ha e ha e been for the last I 50 years Mr Mi stated For several I weeks s ee past negotiations negotiations I for the of the In Indian Indian Indian dian Cleek outfit by Mernon Merrion Wilkins a house of Denver and Ogden had been in i progress Mr l had named a price for the big outfit and the I e purchasers I were ere to i have their option before Set Sept t mbel 1 This they tailed failed to todo todo do and the deal thereupon was las de declared dared to be offA offA off offA A sensational angle developed evening at 8 B 0 o clock whelan an armored cir clr supposedly con eying cash for the purchase of othe the outfit armed ed in Moab The car attracted considerable attena atten I t oland o a i i and the rumor cucu throughout the city that It lad iad transported some In m cash from Salt Lake City Ho Hoever Hoi ever ever no cash changed hands the dIrectors of tha th S S company declining t negotiate further with Ith Russel Wil Wi Lins of Denver a member of the firm of Mernon Merrion and WIlkins Ac According According cording carding to reliable information the contract submitted b bi the pI pio O e purchasers was HIS not in con with uth the original agree agreement agreement ment and hence wa was wab not riot accept abet abel to the directors of the S S SCorn Scorn Corn com any The Tha Somei lIe ille Ca Cattle Ule company is the largest in m Utah Operating some head of cattle I and owning some acres of o farm and range lands in m addItion i I to numerous springs and water wate developments The ran ranh h owns and controls in the neighborhood Of 2000 a res of range lands in fl grazing rights on the fed federal federal federal eral range and forest res The company with its predecessor tar sor the Indian Creek Cattle corn com pany has operated for tor about 50 years The S S company is local IY owned having ly 1 stockholders It a large amount of employment in Grand and San SanJuan Juan uan counties and is the larges er in San Juan county Mr is s president and general manager and Andrea Andre Somerville of Moab oab is MC IC ic president dent Both are veteran cattlemen or of southeastern Utah and through long years fears of effort and good man management management have built up the outfit to toone one of the outstanding hes cattle of the west Lieutenant L R It Litman Letman for the Pasi four years commanding of leer fleer of the Dalton Wells camp on Monday ended ende end his long lone rot service there At his own r Quest Lent Leut Litman has been transferred to district headquarters at Fort For T Douglas v where here he will be in tt the e quarterma ter s department deportment H He f let Jest today for Salt Lake City ac compe m by Mrs Litman and son J I A President of Cat Cattie Cattie tie Company Utah s cat t cattie tie ranch sale of which wa a er reported U tI is b week |