Show wool industry is big factor in uintah county uintah county this ear has garn ered additional renown through ith ox x clllence cel lence oc of quality of one of 0 ita its principal product products h wool clipped from its it riecka of at rage and tarla ara sheep while the quantity of this product ie is not lagging in malting making increase each year at the quality ot of the wool wr was the til hinr which determined buyers to pay the 1926 peak price of 0 35 36 cent cents ft pound tor for a terge large portion of the county 8 clip uintah county wool was the first in the west to I receive thin this price the famed jericho pool clip ae as well ai as tho equally tamed famed i idaho clip sold tor for lets 1 by a aalf cent per pound uintah county fleeces this year averaged better than ten pounds this being I 1 tie the result ot of grading tho sheep to toi a higher standard sheep men have bave ions long ince since become col converts iverts to the truth that pure bred and high grade sheep are better ool producers than the scrub stuff wb which ich for many years held way throughout te the west moderation la in all things Is a virtue and the bounds ot of modesty aru are not deserted in making the statement that tha wool industry Is see ond la in magnitude in IM the list ot of the varied enterprises that are coupel compel ing outsiders to eve give recognition to 0 o uintah county as one ot of the most productive sections ot of the fate state ot of utah agriculture of 0 course Is to the main bactol ol 01 progress in the county under present conditions and there are none who would take from the sons eon ot of toll toil tilling tons of 0 soil one lota iota ut the credit due ahm as developer developers and producers agrical ture lure cornea comes first the sheep industry his 1 year v vi 1 I add to the he wealth 0 uintah cour Y not les leis than a million dollars more than 1 rounds ot of wool ari ara going to market and the shipment of lambs next tall fall will bring favor able prices as evidenced by contracts closed this spring although I 1 somewhat lower than ruled in n years i of the recent past the increase of locks flocks as reported during the current lambing season is entirely satisfactory is sheep men of uintah county are sitting pretty as the saying aces they are favored by grazing areas in plenty and have the additional advantage of having at their command the regulated grazing privileges la in the ash lev national forest under the regulations ions of the national forest service the owners of 0 flocks are assured that their interests are well guard ed and that overgrazing of 0 any given area Is not tolerated compared to the benefits thus received the nominal tee fee for grazing in national forests la Is a negligible consideration the sheep industry has been a factor in uintah county for the past five tears its establishment as attended by travail trials and I 1 tribue luona prior to the coming i of ti ks baca to the daya lays of the art trot arrival in ap 1 numbers ot of pioneers conets the cattle balting indue try ralerf the rang 1 la in viley ballo and oa OZI th bihy ihy mountains aa cattlemen of e tT intall county observed the invasion oj 01 other part parts of the wet west by flock 11 i i eurs noted the til antagonism be tw the moo engaged in the con livestock interests int erect saw the antagonism flare into open hostility sad binally into warfare taking toll ot of human life 0 say nothing of thousand thousands ot of dumb animals seed by selfish human bing beings aln tab county did not escape tah phase ot of turmoil on several 1 clashes ot of hep sheep and cattle ain men con tri bitting ch artera agers to the annala annals tit s the domain it embraces however the old antagonism has long since disappeared and many men who in other daya days were engaged in raising cattle are now own era ere of locka flocks of 0 sheep cattle and haep sheep man are neighbors both are tn in the development ot of tin county neither would dream ot of an the other on account of the class ot of livestock he be owns and none of 0 them with the old daya days ol 01 hostility to return AN what hat benefits one class benefits bene fita the other and they have learned thero there la is a great truth expressed in the adage the greatest grea teet good to the greatest great tit number ot many yara years ago ies loss than twenty a high class magazine in the east a prize ot of for or the most unique photograph tak n la ta the iest A resident of idaho sent ent in a photograph depicting a herd berd of cattle on one side of 0 a barb wire fence and a lock flock ot of sheep on the other aide side two men one the owner of the cattle and the oth er a were shown in friendly attitude this photograph won the prize tor for the reason that it was a truly unique picture a sanguine sheep and cattle war had occurred in the section where the two erstwhile hostile livestock men were now conversing ip friendly manner bat but in to win the award the man who took the photograph had to furnish affidavit affidavits from both the tn in the picture and from two disinterested pinions that the photograph was really mally a kmap shot and arid not a prearranged and specially specialty pored affair today such a photograph in any 1 prize contest would not receive honorable mention the lower quota tlona on wool and lambs this year the flock mastera of 0 uintah county are determined to pe re mit no retrogression gro gres selon sion in the indu industry itry hather rather they are planning to continue in the improvement of their locks flocks and in close attention to every detail affect tins the permanency of the industry which stands second in importance of 0 development and productivity in vintah county |