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Show T?Livestoclc gjUVNf WOHTmgQ 21. r Los Anjreles, July 17, 1933 Drastic advances of grain and feod-stuffs, feod-stuffs, with virtually no gains in values of fat !ive.-.;ock, have given western stockmen cause for worry. With few exceptions, feed prices are sharply hitrher than a month ago, whereas the general scale of livestock live-stock prices has shown no improvement. improve-ment. In the San Joaquin Valley barley is selling at $20 to $22 a ton, or just about double the prices paid a year ago. Cottenseed cake and meal have advanced along with corn, feed, wheat, milo and other products. Despite the higher scale of feed costs, with attendant increased cost of putting flesh on hogs, lambs and steers, there is more interest in cattle feeding in most of the western states than at any previous time. Serious drouth conditions are reported re-ported throughout most of the western west-ern range country, with range pastures the poorest in many years. Pacific coast packers have been backward about bidding on h3lf-fat grass steers and have shown a pre-ferance pre-ferance for hard-finished cattle that will kill out with white fat and marble,! beef. In a season of good grass feed, the natural feeds in the western country are sufficient to put a satisfactory finish on the majority of cattle, although there is a growing grow-ing market for strictly choice, grain-fed grain-fed bullocks, especially young. As a result, western stockmen who are in position to finance feeding operations are practically forced to feed some concentrates to supplement poor range feed. Many in the trade are optimistic in their views of the fall and winter market, believing that fat stock prices will advance sufficiently suf-ficiently to pay a profit on feeding j costs. Tliis view is strengthened as reports came in of vast improve-i improve-i menls in business anil industrial conditions, with thousands of worker-; again obtaining employment. In the industrial districts of southern south-ern California, employment agencies are placing more and more workers right along. This means greater buying power, and certainly, people will want meat along with other necessities. I While it may take some time for j livestock values to become adjusted to the higher levels in sympathy with foodstuffs, it is believed probable that the federal agricultural armin-, armin-, istration will make a drive towards j higher hog prices early in fall. Thi:; I would naturally cause improvement I in beef prices, i n fTA lleins nf intercut taken from the f "' Milford Ncwh of 03- liflceii year ago thU week M. 1'. MoirUscy of Chicago, representing repre-senting the company which had taker over 1 1 in .sulphur dcsits in lleavel and Millard counties, had been in Mil-fold Mil-fold and reported thai they had put down over fifty test holes with core drills, extending over an area of fifty acres. Nine curs of materials were standing on the siding ut Black Kock for use in establishing a camp, and the name of the place was to be clmnged from Sulphurdale to Mor-rise)', Mor-rise)', according to report. Engineer Waller K. Vorlon, with a corps of local surveyors, was engaged en-gaged in running the preliminary survey for a railroad from Lund to Cedar City. Leo C. White, who was a member id' the 1'ir.t graduating class of the .Milford high school that spring, had gone to Salt Lake and enlisted in the mechanical department of the service. ser-vice. Word hail ju.-,t been received from France, announcing the sale arrival there of three more of Milford's boys "Babe." Waddinghain, W. S. Parkinson and Brown Hum.Ii, who were members of the 52nd I'. S. Engineers. En-gineers. George Atkin had spent a three-days three-days furlough with his parents in Milford. Ho had been given a ball at the opera houo und it was pronounced pro-nounced one of the nut enjoyable events of the season. He had played the traps while Al Kirk had "done his hit" at dancing, then his cornel had arrived and he had played with the orchestra. As a finale, Al and George were left alone with the musical musi-cal end of it and the two old pals had made music that caused one to foigct the horrors of war. Carl Vealor was pasturing about b'OO head of cattle on the pioject south of town. S. W. Laughlin, who had been manager of the Montreal mine for a number of months, had Te-dgneil and was thinking of leaving the community. com-munity. Frank Xorris was coming from Salt Ijike to take his place and a Mr. Pack was to be the new bookkeeper. book-keeper. Mr .and Mrs. IL G. Siewert and the latter's si.-ter, Mrs. Ketring of San Bernardino, had gone to the ranch near Reed for the wek-end. Mrs. Otto Metcher was spending some time in the neighborhood of Camp Kearney, where she could visit with her husband, who was in the service there. Dan Ferguson was still in Cuba with the 100th Co., 9th Regt., the la.-t time he had written hone. All the railroad pay checks for the month were reported to have had humps in them due to the pay increase in-crease the boys had received. ( The grasshoppers during the preceding pre-ceding week, had retarded considerably consid-erably the work of the day switching crews, according to rairoad notes of that issue, the hoppers getting on the rails and caix-ing the goat to do a great deal of slipping. |