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Show Of all Hereford Tour Proves Successful With more than 100 persons attending at-tending at some stops, the first annual Utah Hereford tour was considered highly successful by officials of-ficials of the association. The tour started at the Winterton Brothers summer ranch at Strawberry. This consisted of a stop and a visit to the cow herd. Cattlemen also got a chance to see Royal Triumph 33rd, a full brother to WHB's famous fam-ous WHR Royal Triumph. From Strawberry the tour moved to Woodland, the headquarters of the Winterton Bros., ranches. At this stop tour members saw 150 bulls and some outstanding females as well as the Wintertton show herd. On the second day of the tour stops were made at Rees Bros., in Morgan, Elwood Williams ranch at Peterson; Potter Bros, ranch at Farmington; Glassmas Hereford ranch, Ogden; the Eden Hereford ranch, Eden; the Bar B Co., ranch at Eden; and Peterson Bros. Ogden Lunch was served at the Eden Hereford ranch and also at the , Peterson Bros., in the evening. At a directors' meeting of the Utah Hereford Association, held in Ogden during the Hereford tour, Ralph D. Winterton, Kamas, was elected president of the Utah Here ford Association for the 1950-1951 fiscal year. He succeeds Vearl A. Petersen, Gunnison, Utah, who has served as president for the past two years. Elwood Williams was re-elected vice president, and Merlin Mer-lin Clark, secretary. Directors of the association for the northern district include, Max Anderson, of Tremonton. George Schumann, of Wells, Nevada; and Elwood Williams, Willi-ams, Ogden. Directors for the eastern east-ern district include, Ralph D. Winterton, Win-terton, Kamas; Virtus McConkie, Vernal; and C. H. Snow, Fremont. Directors for the southern district are, Snell Swenson, Spanish Fork; Vearl A. Peterson, Gunnison, Ctah; and Paul Hafenv St. George. The directors also announced I sales days for the coming season. Only two sales will be held again ..this season. The first sale will be held at Spanish Fork on Decmber 14, 1950, with Charles Adams as auctioneer. The second sale will be held at Cedar City on February 24, 1951, with H. B. Sager as auctioneer. auc-tioneer. The directors also announced an-nounced that the second annual Utah Hereford tour will be held sometime during July or August of 1951 and will cover the southern south-ern Utah area. Tentative plans for the 1951 tour are that it will start at St. Gorge and will cover Iron, Washington, Beaver, Millard, Sanpete, San-pete, Sevier and Emery counties. Millard men making the tour ' were Lee S. Rogers, assistant coun- ty agent, Sam Hales, Lynn Talbot, Vid Carling, Fillmore and Alvin Inglestead, Kanosh. Preceding the tour they spent half a day in Vernal Ver-nal with Clair Acord, county agent, and toured that area, viewing the oil wells, pastures and Hereford ranches. In all they covered 1000 miles on the trip. |