Show LIVESTOCK LETTER ogden utah april 9 renewed confidence that 1919 will bring Sti g teater eater development of tb livestock Ind industry ostry in the western states and particularly in the intermountain ter r tory embraced in etab idaho nevada and western wyoming is expressed thil this arrina by livestock men who are arriving at the ogden union stockyard abis confidence ased upon the well maintained price level the demand for cattle sheep and bogs h the good condition of the ranges and the p aspects of a sufficient water supply to td develop good fet ding crops anticipation thit the business of livestock feeding will be developed deve lopea much more rapidly in the tain lain states than river beford is ex ox pr pressede pressed essed 4 by erain grain men whose aboe mountain states interest In teresie are cow raw being centra centralized byed here the reason for this belief is that hey see the combination of alfalfa molaska mo lasea from the various sugar factories and screenings from the grain handling plants ai a a balanc balanced cd f faed P ed that will be bb uil ull ked by live livestock ruen tnt entering ering the feeding business and all produced in the intermountain states world prices for livestock are higher now then even during the war period due largely to the great demand for pork and fats in european countries coun where the herds have all been so badly depleted that america must supply meat for two PI vr n ore beirs w this condition as to world prices is reflected in tle the ogden livestock i live market where there has been an advance in prices until until howsare hogs are b being ing sold at 10 75 tu 1750 pelf per hundred undred h cattle prices have hay e been maintained at the same level and there Is no change in sheep price no lowering of price levels is anticipated in the hog market although local ltv livestock estock men do not expect that there will be any upward shift in the immediate future |