Show Al AI Pioneer Cattleman Receives the i G. G F. F Swift Centennial Founders Award Ir of j 0 I 1 W c f. f 1 LI j 11 fj f 1 I 1 f 5 Y Yc c 91 S 'S r 4 S S Al who has ap spent nt many days in the saddle is shown above with on one of hi his favorite mounts 7 w 7 7 7 w wAl Al Ai pioneer cattleman In San Juan and Grand Counties recently received the G. G F F. Swift Centennial Founders Founder's Award for excellent contributions to Ita the livestock and meat in industry The award was presented at t the Annual Utah Horse and Cattle Growers Convention in Salt City by President J. J Wells Robins In presenting the Ithe Swift Award Aware and a. a bronze plaque in honor of Mr services to the Ithe live stock stock- industry Mr Robins said You have distinguished ed yourself yourself your your- self among your fellowmen as asan asan aSi aSian an outstanding rancher and livestock live stock man a leader in your com corn For your excellent con to the livestock and meat industry Swift Company In cooperation with the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers Grower's Association As As' Association considers it ap honor and privilege Ito to present to you the G. G F F. Swift Centennial Founders Founder's Award The presentation of this award aware also marks the year since the founder of pf Swift Company began his hie early livestock tock processing pro activities The entire livestock and meat Industry has developed years built by py the untiring efforts and spirit of men like yourself sincere sincer We aWe Join In extending appreciation o of the contributions you have made made your your ur work 1 U s a benefit and a credit to the entire livestock and meat Industry r Al who is Js currently r eoy ering from rom a br broken ken ankle a a result of an unfortunate accident acci dent was un unable bl tp the theaward theaward award award- in person paron His' His oldest Idest cUd daughter Mrs C. C CW W. W Larson accepted It If for her nd the the- family s She S-e remarked M d' i j I I fe feel l d 4 ds t lj It a gre ge great t t to have th the privilege of ot a accepting trig this this' award i fa fon foD my ny fl fath father r IJ His iti life spent Jn r Ing land and promoting promoting- 4 the e att Ir IndustrY in He helped to organize this this' organization ad its interest in terest at rat heart hean ever Sri e. e The welfare of the cattle Ie in Jq and his family and arid country coun try have ave been his Mg lifes life's work I am sure this award will bring much Joy to him bim during the remainder of his life His hope Is 5 that this organization ration will wUl devel develop op and be toe a great power K for flar good rw We thank y you Lz from the bottom of our our hearts hearts for this award Continued on page pago 8 i r JA J. J A Al AI AI From Page One Onet t BEHIND THE AWARD Ji t A. A John Albert born botn Sept 29 1872 AI now 82 years young left when a 1 t teen toon alter after for the he then unknown rim rocks and ncI desert c country in th the southeastern San Juan County Utah His Ills parents had the same romantic lust for freedom and came cane as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of or Latter Day Saints to Utah In the hand cart company of 1861 from Denmark to Ephraim Utah where here Albert as they called him was horn born Sept 29 1872 in m an adobe house where the Ilse bank now stands Here Is where he mu must t have dreamed of becoming he be coming a banker hanker as he Is now president of the First National Bank of Meal Moab Utah and First Vice President of the First State Bank Dank of Salina Utah I ALS AL'S PARENTS lII like c most pioneers pi pl were very poor and h his fat father her e contracted for a a herd of sheep owned by the Ephraim Coop op and brought them south to graze In 1873 he moved his f family to to Salina where they per permanently settled Ills HIS father Christian C C. had Ill health and turned the job overto over overto to his hlA boys td to care for the die sheep In a short time th they y turned their Interests Into cattle AI Al could see sel nothing promising In the sheep business He has always lov loved cattle catle and c continuously I produced the same since he went to San Juan In March of 1891 HIS ROMANCE Al Al went into Bluff San Juan County Utah for fora a grub stake and there met mot Pretty Miss l Emma Bayles ayles as she was called She and her sister ran a hotel boarding house I there In 1895 they came to Salt Lake crossing the Colorado River at Moab In a bu buggy gy and were married Jan Jat 2 1895 1893 In the dhe Salt Lake Latter LaUer Day Saint Tem pIe Emma his wife used to say he was not hom more than six weeks at a time Most host of the time he was on ithe the range and sleeping In old cliff dwellers dwell dwelli ers caves under rocks at night for protection ins IBIS I HIS LIFES LIFE'S AMBITION m REALIZED REAL At They made their home In Bluff Utah lUtah until 1917 when they moved to provo Prove Utah to educate their six girls Another Another An lather other factor entered In Every one was moving away from Bluff planning a lit dam In the San Juan river which would cause Bluff to tobe tobe b be covered with water event Their most precious po sessions were their six girls who were named Edna Veda La Emma Etta Pearl Alberta Allie and Caro line It was their parents Joy to see them all graduate le from the Bingham Young University er sity sHy Then finally they accepted accepted ted their sons law In-law in one ana by byOne one It lt was always a disappointment they did not have any sons of their own However Al said girls are a lot easier casler to handle Their sons are lare C. C W. W Larson f. f former farmer Utah State Representative Rep M M. H. H Williams Vice president of the Cattle Company F. F J. J Gurney College CoUge teacher of Chemistry Clarence T. T Ward an attorney law McKay Roberts livestock raiser and L. L Polley Policy a research man for the Union Oil Company J J. J. J A. A is indeed proud of his sons sons law inlaw and grandchildren grand children and nd they in tn turn re re They Jook ivok to him a aa as asa a a great personality able to surmount surmount sur mount obstacles of hi his early arly plo pio neer veer life coping with Indians the elements poverty loneliness wild animals depressions lIe He rm haq sold annually since about 1913 an average of at least two to twenty five hundred head of cattle from the Indian Creek Cattle Company besides a few hundred from his private holding In Sevier County Sal ina Utah The company used to sell about cattle an Ills His main Interest and work h has S always been In ranch ranch- Ing lug lIe He Is President of the SommervIlle Cattle Company Com Corn pany with headquarters at Indian Creek San Juan County REMARRIED R Some time after after af ter the death of Als Al's first wife Emma he chose a lovely wo woman woman woo wooman man Laura Shupe who has been beena a companion and helpmate to him and has shown her Interest in the cattle and banking bus Iness mess She Js Is also vitally Interested Inter ested sted In n uranium as itS her sons eons all have uranium mining prop At the age of eighty two years he is Js on top and still sUll carrying on his business and personal Interests A new chall challenge comes to him that him that of an Indus Indus- world of ot our present day day- What will the future bring is the question n the livestock industry asks The answer Is 19 Isa isa a cry for morl more beef and J. J A AA and his posterity hope to continue to produce Hereford cattle for them |