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Show Marketing Assn. Tells Record Year It was reported at the annual an-nual Board of Director's meeting of Producer's Livestock Live-stock Marketing Association held recently that the association associ-ation had a record volume of $414,122,600.00 in sales for the year. J. W. Swan, President Presi-dent of the association notec that this compared with $337, 431,000.00 of a year ago; an increase of 23. Sales for the year comprised of . 1,810,000 cattle, 374,000 ity at Jerome, Idaho." . The association represents auctions in North Salt Lake and Salina, Utah; Jerome, Idaho; Burlington and Greely, Colorado and Ontario, Calif. They also have a commercial commer-cial 30,000 head feed lot in Maricopa, Arizona and other offices in Ellensburg, Washington; Yumaand Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Arizona; Brawley, California and Denver, Colo. Joseph I. Jacob, Secretary-Manager, noted that while Producer's have shown outstanding growth for the year, the cattle Industry In-dustry as a whole is facing fac-ing definate problems. "Feed costs are high and right now there is greatly reduced re-duced demand for fat cattle", he said. "Asa result, feeders feed-ers in commercial yards are having to sell at a loss and many of them have gone out of business." "In spite of the confusion in the economy, we are op- ' tomistic about the future and will continue to strive 1 to improve the service we offer to members of the association." calves, 360,000 hogs and 170,. 000 sheep. Total assets for the end of the fiscal year were $15,340,000. Producer's Livestock Marketing Mar-keting Association owns stock in two livestock cred it corporations, one located locat-ed in Salt Lake City and the other in Denver, Colo. Producer's Livestock Marketing Mar-keting Association is now the largest livestock operation in the entire country and the are continually upgrading hot their facilities and their service. "During the past year", stated Mr. Swan, "we have made a substantial substan-tial addition and improvement improve-ment of the auction facil- |