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Show Livestock Show Big Drawing Card At the opening date of the flfth annual lntermountain Livestock Show, to be held at North Salt Lake, April :;, 4, f and 6, approaches, final 'arrangements for housing the exhibits exhib-its and taking care of thousands of visitorrs are being hurried to completion comple-tion at the Salt Lake Union stockyards. stock-yards. The new big stock building will be completed by April 1. The present buildings are being placed in readiness for the entries and other work in preparation for the big event is being carried out in every detail. Never before has the show attracted attract-ed the widespread attention it has this year.' While it has always been an important factor in the livestock industry of Salt Lake and the immediate im-mediate vicinity, interests in the event has never been so extensive as the 1922 entries indicate. The mail each day brings notices of additional exhibits from distant localities. Early publicity in "all sections of the inter-mountain inter-mountain West and in some eastern states advertised the show extensively extensive-ly among the stockmen, who were anxious to compete for the premiums. pre-miums. Prospects for a ready sale of all classes of stock have also encouraged encour-aged many to ship exhibits to the show. An improvement in the industry indus-try generally has awakened a keen interest among the growers of the different breeds of cattle, sheep and swine. Correspondence received by Dr. R. N. Mead, managing director, at livestock show headquarters in the Salt Lake Commercial club building build-ing indicates that there will be an abundance of fat and breeding stock on sale at both the private and public auctions. Attendance in all probability will exceed that of any previous event of its kind held in Salt Lake. Ueduced passenger rates over steam and elec-I elec-I trie lines from all points in the inter-! inter-! mountain section have been arranged i as a special inducement. The show is held during the week of the L. D. S. conference in Salt Lake, which j brings thousands of visitors from all S parts of Utah, southern Idaho, western west-ern Colorado and parts of New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona. |