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Show Sliippig of Spring Lambs Commenced Crystal Bros, shipped ft half dozen car loads of spring lambs to tho eastern east-ern mnrkets this week. They constituted con-stituted tho first shipment by American Ameri-can Fork shccpmoit so far thlB year, and were loaded nt Colton. Tho lamb3 were but n llttlo more than four i mouths old and will weigh about 05 pounds each. Tho prlco Is ranging around tho $8.00 mark, which moans that the lambs will bring In tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of $5.20 each. The Crystal lambs wero dropped In the latter part of March down In tho Nino Mile district dis-trict on Green River. American Fork sheepmen will this year probably ship between 80,000 and 100,000 lambs to the eastern market, which with the stock sheep which will be sold, means tho bringing of over' half million dollars of eastern money to this locality from this source lu one season. Tho sheepmen say that tho ranges never woro better, nor the prospects nrlghtor for n nuccessful year. |