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Show OMAHA BOOSTERS SEE OGDEN, ! WHILE ENTERTAINED BY LOCAL CLUB AND LIVESTOCK MEN A delegation of stockmen, numbering number-ing 24, arrived from Omaha yesterday afternoon and was met by representative--, of the local stock market, the visitors being known as the "Omaha j Boosters," Ogden business men and the local tp k representatives have been look inc forward to the visit of the boosters for several weeks. The object of the trip is for the eastern men, who are big dealers in livestock, to get better acquainted with the patrons of their market. A banquet was tendered at 6:30 o'clock at the Weber club, which was ."''tided by a number of prominent t'gden business men. The boosters w ere welcomed by W. H. Wattis. president of the Ogden Stock Yards company who expressed ihe opinion that anything that would prove beneficial to Omaha would prove equally beneficial to Ogden. Mr. W ar tis urged that Omaha and Ogden cooperate co-operate in maintaining and upbuilding the livestock Industry In each place., and he commented upon the locations of both cities as natural livestock centers. cen-ters. An Editor's Views Bruce McCulloch. editor or the! Drovers Journal-Stockman and who has visited Ogden several times dur in.q the past few years, noted that considerable con-siderable Industrial and business growth had manifested itself Binct i his last visit a year or two ago In commenting com-menting on the question of coopera- tion he used an illustration of the war, mentioning the manner in which Hie sons of rich and poor alike received receiv-ed and promptly obeyed the same orders. or-ders. An expert opinion of packing and stock conditions In general was then given b Simon S Jensen of the Ogden Og-den Packing & Provision compam. who told how stock and hog raising had developed in Utah and Idaho i n 1900. A T. Bigelow was ihe next speaker ami m addition to welcoming the men' to the city, expressed pleasure in meeting the delegation Just why markets fluctuated was then explained by R l .NLMinnus. la representative of Armour tc Co. He I Said that big business in davs gone bj had not troubled themselves in keeping the public Informed as to what they were doing and how thev were doing it This fact gave rise to erroneous conclusions concerning the packing industry. This is being eliminated, said Mr. McMannus as people are now being shown by ihe big parking corporations that while i heir profits amount to sums of six and seven tigures. there is several hundreds or millions of dollars be-hind be-hind these enterprises and the profits are the legitimate revenue of such an investment Following the banquet the livestock men went to the Eagles gymnasium where they saw the fight betwopn Al Young and Bobby Moore After the fight the Omaha men w . re again the gUests of the Weber club and Publicity Pub-licity bureau. West of Viaduct A schedule was planned for the boosters today, the first move being a visit to the stockyards, the Ogden Packing plant and other industrial concerns in order to give them an idea of what is being done here in the live stock business. Among the concerns the boosters specially desired to visit were the plants of the Ogden Packing and Provision company and the Hansen Han-sen Livestock v Feeding company At the Hansen leeding yards the boosters were shown through the mill, where the balanced ration Is manufactured, and also through the yards where the large numbers of hogs, cattle and sheep are quickly fattened for market. At noon the boosters were taken to the Ogden Golf and Country club for dinner. They are to leave Ogden this afternoon for Laramie, Wyoming, where they will visit before returning to Omaha. The boosters came through Cache valley yesterday traveling bv automobile. automo-bile. The del. gat ion includes Carl A Smith, traffic manager U. S. Yard company. Ed P. Baker, Bowles L. S. Coin. Co : H J Oswald. Wood -Oswald Co ; F J. Emerson, assistant cashlei Stock Yards National bank. Lloyd Sullivan. Wood Bros; Win C, David-son. David-son. Bowles L. S Com. Co ; The.) Tillottson Mutual L S. Co , C. F. Cox, Inter state L. S. Co.; James Bush. Clay Robinson & Co.; Chris Horn, Donahue-Randall Co.; Frank Randall. RosenbaUm Com. Co.; J. Ocie Avis-worth. Avis-worth. Gnat Western Com. Co.: Wm. Lynnni. Tagg Bros AL- Morehead Co.; Martle O'Taole, Brandels & Co ; F. V. Pei-k. Hurgoss-Nash Co.: Alvln John son. cashier Live Stock National bank; Bl lice McCulloch. editor Drovers' Journal-Stockman; R. D McMannus. Armour Ar-mour & Co : Claude Talbot, chief brand inspector; Ralph Jennings, manager man-ager Fremont stock yards; Charles Cayle, W R Smith & Co; and John W. Taylor. nn |