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Show THE JOURNAL 8 THE LIVESTOCK SITUATION other kinds were holding steady has created a situation where good grade offerings are selling on a par with choice kinds and a spread of from $2 to $3 per cwt. buys the bulk of the slaughter steers of all grades. Heifers ended steady to weak; cow prices range from steady to 25 cents or more higher while1 other bovine classes are steady. while Mixed price trends featured the livestock trade here this week. Hog prices showed some improvement, but cattle' ruled uneven and closed steady to a little lower. Sheep and lamb prices were mostly unchanged. Several loads of prime steers sold Weakness in the cattle market at $34 and $34.25 this week, but the came on choice and better grading bulk of gqod and choice kinds went kinds and they are around 25 cents at $32 to $33 while medium to good lower for the period. The decline on grades sold from $30 to $31.50. A better grades in recent weeks, few common offerings went down MAY, 1952 . MAY 10, from $29. Most heifers sold from $30 to $31.50 with plain grades at $28. Good fat cows bulked from $25.50 to $26.50 with one load of fancy grass cows at $28. Canners and cutters figured from $18 to $21, while medium to good beef cows sold from $22 to $25. I Best bulls sold at $31 and top vealers at $36. Most calves sold at $34 and down. Stocker trading was limited by light numbers. A few calves sold at $38 and yearlings at $36 and down. Hog prices are around 50 cents higher for the week with supplies showing quite a let-uTop grades local sold butchers of at $10.75 with Airman S. C. Keith Smith is some eastern butchers at $20.25. Most good and choice 200 to 250 lb. home on leave for 30 days. On his , hogs sold from $18.50 to $19.50 return to his Base at Chanute, while kinds weighing 2C0 to 300 lbs. he will leave for the Far East. figured at $17.50 to $18.25 with big Keith is a son of Mrs. Afton Steed. FAnr.nriGTON p. 111-- James Pearsall has returned to weights down to $16.50. Sows sold San Diego after spending several from $14 to $15.50. days in Farmington. James will Several loads of .spring lambs be assigned to a ship and will go moved here this week. Good and overseas. choice kinds went at $28 to $28.60 Mrs. Kathy rn Jennings has rewith a few old crop wooled lambs turned from Kansas City, where at $24.50. Ewes sold at $10 and she was called due to the sickness iown. of her mother, Mrs. J. E. Brenner. he same day she emerged as Hollywood's newest movie star she was presented with a honoring over 70 years , huge wreath of flowers jTJ of faithful service and signifying virtual rein the recently premi tirement. A featured star e narrow-gauglocomotive 268, makes ered "Denver & Rio Grande Cinder Ella, her exit with more honor and glory than she has ever known. Acclaimed as a novelty of today, she was a hard working pioneer of yesterday.. .a faithful builder of the west. n (Mmq n any years ago, in 1890, when giant smsdsrd gsuga locomotives pushed 1 off Rio Grands main lines tsd consigned her to a rapidly diminishing narrow-gaug- e empire, she knew her eta was passing. To be sure, she cad bar siaars have fought long and hard to keep the pace, and technological advancements in all types of transportation and the transition of bonanza mining camps to ghost towns have combined to point up the significant job done a by the narrow gauge. a s she looks forward to her retirement, she has every reason to be proud because of her fame as a film queen, and, more important, because of her contribution to the development of a great modern railroad, the home railroad of Colorado and Utah, which is today one of America's foremost transportation servants. She can bask in the T 31 glory of the sleek Vista- nresk over the trails she Dome streamliners which -the Rockies a progresbiased through the heart of another 23 million dol sive railroad in 19S2 spending 268 can pop a valve with lars for improvements to plant and equipment; Old and she views the schools, highways, airports built with tax money pride when she helped earn for the Rio Grande taxes today amounting to more than one million dollars per month, among others supplying the very life blood of local ri r Cnnouncements . . With Distinction! 4 Wedding invitations announcements and printed by us have an indefinable J air of grace and beauty. government in her territory. She can take maternal cheer in the knowledge that today an average of three million dollars a month makes up the payroll of more 7,000 Rio Grande employees (average annual wags in excess of $4,500) who wesk in the main line communities she once served. ..jayfcs cot today, er tomorrow, cr o year from now; but soon seen sho will toed the procession her whlalto wEl bo stilled ferover fleet away from cf the few remaining members of her narrew-esag-o the bspebs struggle with progress. 0,er Hollywood named her Cinder Ella, and properly so for her ssexy ends in the melting pot of progress she will live "happily advance of after, literally recast to fit a new role in the never-endin- g co-sta- rs dviliestica. d Rio G?cnda Western Railroad 1952 Inland Printing Co. Phone 10 Kaysville |