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Show 80 Cars of Cattle LoadedAt Milford , Eighty carloads of drouth relief cattle shipped from Milford yards during the period of federal activities along this line, is the official record up to going to press, and the figures loom up large when considered along side of the reports of three or four carloads shipped from various other points, as chronicled in the daily press. Prior to July 18 there weere 14 carloads shipped, of which the local F E R A office has no detailed information, infor-mation, those additional duties not having been given Vee Waddoups, local F E R A representative at that time, but from July 18 to August 8 there have been 66 carloads shipped, or a total of 2020 head of cattle. During the week of August 2-8 alone there were 1059 cattle shipped. The greater portion of these cattle have come from the east part of the county, but the federal appraising committee has taken over all that were ottered in the sections visited. The extreme west side of the county, the Pine valley grazing area, and. some other parts of the county have not been visited as yet, however, and the total of shipments will be greatly increased before the work is completed. com-pleted. . , Cattle 2 years old and over are ' being paid for at the rate of $12 to I $20 a head, cattle 1 to 2 years old, $10 to $15 a head, and under 1 year ' old at $4 to $8 a head. These prices are paid for both accepted and con-! con-! demmed animals, the latter being killed on the premises; but in all cases there goes to the owner of the cattle; as benefit payments' $6, $5 or $3, according to classification, these amounts not being subject to claims of lien-holders. Some idea of the amount of money to be paid to people of this section under the drouth relief activities of the federal government may be gained by the following figures: Taking 40 head as the average carload car-load lot, the total for 80 cars is 3200 head. Since the average price'r paid per head, according to parties who have been connected with the buying, would be some $15, the total amount to be paid . out is $48,000, and this does not take into consideration the payments for condemmed animals, ani-mals, all of which were paid for, and amounting- to several thousand dollars. dol-lars. Such of these animals as 'were fit for consumption, were made available to owners or others who were on hand, the only condition being that the animals must be killed kill-ed before the appraisal committee left the premises. Where shipments were large enough at any one time, the cattle were divided into grazer and canner lots, the former going to other grazing areas under federal supervision while the canners went to packing house cities, the first shipments ship-ments going to Los Angele9 while later ones have been billed for Salt I Lake and Ogden." I n ' |