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Show HORSE BUSKS HEAVY DEALING Ogden Rapidly Becoming Horse Center of the West Governments Buy in Ogden. The bigrret horse contract eer 'awarded, and perhaps the biggest live-jj live-jj stock deal ever made, was closed a few !das ago by Otto Meek, general man-! man-! ager of the Ogden Horse Sale & Com-' Com-' mission company, with the British gov-' gov-' ernraent at Montreal. Canada, for the ' purchase of horses and mules in un- limited numbers during the war. j This move makes Ogden the most I important horse and mule market in the world, there being only two other cities. St. Paul and Chicago, where I horses and mules are now being purchased pur-chased for any of the governments. There will be more stock purchased nhrough the Ogden firm for war pur- poses than through any firms of the other two cities. Mr Meek and his as-I as-I sociates will purchuse 3000 head of horses and mules a month and ship them here for acceptance by the Brit-j Brit-j is examining officers. I In accord with the spirit this firm has maintained since it was established establish-ed here only a little over a ear ago, a spirit of energy and enterprise. Mr Meek telegraphed to Ogden as soon as K ... V, .1 .-..-..- ' V Hnnl . n A V. A IT WJ V UdU LliC UVtil auu UQU 11. . I Dunn, president of the company, send buyers out into the surrounding terrl- I tory post-haste to begin sending in : animals so as to have a supply of them on hand for the inspectors when they arrive. The inspectors are to ar- I rive in Ogden tomorrow. The British j war department will establish a per- I manent examining board here for in- I spectlng horses for war. The contract calls for four grades of horses and two grades of mules, all for war purposes. The British government gov-ernment is the most exacting of any J when it comes to selecting animals for war use. From this fact it is to bo seen that the assembly of animals here will be the finest collection of horse flesh ever brought together in I one herd of the size that will be on hand at all times during the running I of the contract- I As soon as Mr Meek sent the word J to Mr. Dunn that the contract was I closed the latter sent 40 men into the field to purchase. Mr Meek started start-ed home, but before he returned the horses were already beginning to ar-: ar-: rive. But the company plans far great-I great-I er extension of their operations and j -will have 160 men in the field wtihin 1 the next 30 days; they will also about 30 men employed at the local yards. The contract covers the operations for the entire west, from Canada to the Mexican border, and possibly as far east as St Louis. The horses will be accepted here by the British offi- cials and will then be shipped to Chicago, Chi-cago, where they will be routed to the war zone. It was only a short time ago that the Ogden Horse Sale & Commission company enlarged their section of the 1 stock yards by building an extension of pens. They also had a good sized portion of their pens covered and they now can place 500 head of horses under un-der roof This was done in anticipa-l tion of increased business this season, but not with the idea of such a largo contract as the one made with Great Britain. The covered pens come In very handy, however, for the examination exami-nation of the animals by the British officers, as it will afford them shade while inspecting the hundreds of animals ani-mals each day that will pass through their hands. Besides the large space at the stock yards this firm has a holding ground across the way from the stock yards i which runs south along the Weber river riv-er for a mile and a half. This provides pro-vides them with ground space for holding hold-ing thousands of animals: The firm used it last year to good advantage while filling the large contract for the United States government, and later In the fall for a large herd of cattle they brought in, for this firm deals j in cattle by the wholesale as well as In horses. They shipped in a large number of registered bulls not long ago, just to prove that there was a good local market for them. And they sold them all at a fine profit, for they were expensive animals and I t K Ck VYnrv:mr- rr; a M r T r f l2 TV, Q 1 1 Besides the buyers that the firm will have in the field, far and near, there will be many loads of horses shipped in by independent buyers and breeders breed-ers who will market to the British government through selling to the Ogden Og-den Horse Sale & Commission company. com-pany. The name and fame of Ogden is certain cer-tain to spread far and wide over the United States; Canada and Great Britain Brit-ain by virtue of this deal, for it is the most important government contract for livestock ever let in the history of the world. The deal is, indeed, an historical his-torical one. |