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Show Auction Company I Plans Opening Tune 16 The opening event of the Southern Utah Livestock Auction Company, Inc., will be held at the recently constructed rings at the race track sheds south of Cedar City on Highway 91 on Thursday, June 16. Weekly livestock auctions will be conducted with Earl R. Smith as auctioneer and president of' the auction company. Farmers, ranchers and livestock men of the area principally the four southern Utah counties and some from Nevada and Arizona will consign livestock for the auction. These events, to be held each Thursday at 1 p. m., will bring livestock men and buys together each week to auction off small parcels as well as large parcels of stock. Livestock men who have attended at-tended weekly auctions in Richfield Rich-field and Salina in Sevier County Coun-ty will have an idea of how the operation will work. Farmers with one, two or a quantity of sheep, cattle, horses or hogs can bring them into the sale where buyers will be present to pick up their needs. Smith, a native o Iowa, is a graduate of the National Auction Institute located in College Sta-tlon, Sta-tlon, Tex. He is widely experienced experienc-ed in the livestock industry, having hav-ing been associated with purebred pure-bred as well as commercial livestock live-stock raising and selling. In Southern Utah Auction Co. other principals are local residents resi-dents and a group of men from Nevada. Vice president of the company is Waldon Dimmitt of Ely, Nev. Clerk will be Milt Sevy of Cedar City and Howard Urie will be welghman. Breeders, packers and feeders from Arizona, California, Utah and Nevada have been contacted and have assured the company they will be buying at this auction, auc-tion, Smith said. At the site of the auction, near the barns at the Iron Bowl Race Track, the company has erected a ring and a number of pens to hold Incoming stock. Scales have already been Installed and all is in readiness for the opening, he indicated. |