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Show SHEARING IS STARTING AT LOCALSHEDS The work of shearing thousands of sheep has begun at Minersville, Black-rock Black-rock and Newhouse. The shearing at Minersville started Monday and up I to date seventy five hundred head have been shorne. The Black Rock shearers have been at work a week and approximately thirty five thou-! thou-! sand head have been handled. Work i began at Newhouse yesterday. I William Morris has charge of the Newhouse corrals and is employing fifty men, thirty of whom are shearers shear-ers from Escalante, The herd of June Metcalf, approximating 3500 head will be handled first. Earl Whittaker's two bunches of ?' and oil' and Christensens' flock of 3500 are among those scheduled. It is estimated es-timated that the Newhouse shearers will handle 3C.000 sheep at the rate 3500 a day before the close of the season. Fifty thousand sheep will be handled handl-ed at Black Rock by Arch James and his crew of fifty shearers. Flocks of Walter James, Candlan and A. Barton's Bar-ton's two herds have already been run through at a rate of 5000 a day. Frank Williams and his twenty shearers at Minersville are han lling 3500 a day and have already shorne . the flocks of Fred Levi and Jack Wheeler. They will handle, in nil, 3fa,000. |