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Show Sheep Growers Of Area Organize Five-County Association At Meeting TWO PRESTON MEN SERVE AS OFFICERS Industry Will Be Represented By Association Sheepmen of Bear Lake, Caribou, Bannock, Franklin and Oneida counties 'met at the Court House In Soda Springs on February 1, 1941, and organized 'The Bear River Riv-er Woolgrowers' assoclation.- Officers chosen to conduct the affairs of the association during 1541 are as follows: rresldent, Wesley . Hubbard, Grace, Idaho; vice-president, I. H. Nash, Preston, Idaho; secretary-treasurer, secretary-treasurer, E. D. Whitman, Soda Springs, Tdaho. AiTvisory board members: Timothy Timo-thy Mathews, Ovid, Idaho; Will Palmer, Malad, Idaho; Ben Meeks. Jr., Preston, Idaho; Thomas G. Hodges, Garden City, Utah. The newly organized association represents the range and farm jheepmen o Southeastern Idaho who operate south of the Oregon Short Line Railroad between Hie Idaho-Wyoming state line and Mc-Cammon, Mc-Cammon, Idaho, all of Franklin county and the eastern parts of Bannock and Oneida counties, including in-cluding the Cottonwood range. Approximately Ap-proximately 100,000 head of sheep are represented. Objectives ' of the organization are to work for more and better control of predatory animals that prey upon the sheep flocks, to work wlthi the forest service to improve and maintain the summer grazing , pounds on the' Oact'- Natronn iFof-ost, iFof-ost, better methods for marketing wool and lambs and do many other things that will aid sheepmen that a representative organization can handle to. advantage. |