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Show BOUSE BUYER IS HERE TO OBTAIN nil A1IILS Earl McClelland, representing a commission firm In Memphis, Tenn., arrived in Ogden Sunday night and will maintain headquarters here for tho next several weeks while wo seeks to assemble approximately 8000 horses. Ho will go to Caldwell, Idaho, within a few days. "The horses are not being purchased for the government," ho stated at tho Now Healy hotel. "The purchase Is wholly an individual enterprise. Such horses as I may buy will bo shipped east, either to Memphis or Kansas City, and sold. It is probable the government gov-ernment will get some of them for war iservice." It is stated that the supply of horses in Kansas, Missouri. Texas and Oklahoma has become alarmingly thin since tho beginning of tho war. Texas was combed for horses at the time of Pershing's expedition into Mexico after the bandit Villa. Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma sold thousands upon thousands of horses to the French and English during the two years prior to the United States' entry into tho world war. While the new supply is developing in tho central western states, including includ-ing Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, horge' buyers are directing their en-ergios en-ergios toward tho west and northwest. At one time, thousands of mules and horses were assembled at Lathrop, a small town near Kansas City, Mo., for shipment overseas. |