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Show FAT LAMBS GO TO MARKET BY FAST TRUCK Only Few Hours Time Elapse Between Loading' On Range and Destination. HYRUM Not so many years ago, the stockmen everywhere were shipping their beef and mutton mut-ton to market by rail. There was the long tedious task of trailing them down from the range, hard on both man and beast, causing a great deal of shrinkage in the weight of the animal en-route en-route to market. There was the journey from loading yards thru numerous towns and round about side tracks and finally to market, sometimes weak and hungry. But today things are very much different. dif-ferent. During the past two weeks sheep men, with flocks in the Cache National forest, have sent out of the canyons thousands of head of fat lambs. Local truck owners have equipped their trucks with facilities for hauling and drive into the mountains, right to the herds. The lambs are ' loaded load-ed there and hauled directly, and speedily to the stock yards in Ogden and within approximately three hours from the time they leave their feeding grounds they are standing in the yards, ready fcr slaughtering or to be transferred trans-ferred further to other yards which ever the case might be. This is indeed ai good example of how our modern methods of doing things is advantageous over the old way, things were done a few years previous. This new era of quick transportation and fast living does have its advantages in so many ways, little do we realize sometimes, what a wonderful age we are really living in. Officials who have visited the range this summer give a very favorable report, with plenty of early spring rain and a good summer sum-mer the feed is plentiful and the sheep and cattle grazing everywhere every-where in the mountains are in very good condition. The lambs brought out last week were some of the best produced here for many years. The price is not so good, but it corresponds with other prices prevailing this fall and the outlook for higher prices next year is good. |