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Show SHEARING SHEEP BY ELECTRIC POWER II. A. Purdy, a former resident of ' Ogden. but now of Milford. Utah, left ' yesterday, after spending a few days i with relatives and friends. Mr. Pur-! dy 19 an engineer, operating on (he j dun Pedro road, ilo states that sine 1 the "washout" on that rond, tbfnga tn railroad circles have been quiet, but I that more activity now prevails. I Milford Is fast growing in importance import-ance as a lallroad. mining and agricultural agri-cultural town. The mine operators In the old Star District, a few miles out from Milford, are doing a groat deal of ruining, about seven mine shipping ore. Sheep shearing Is on in Milford and, before the season Is over, some- ; thin? like a quarter of a million sheep shall have been shorn. The electric shears are being used and the "turn out" Is a high an 7,000 sheep each day. Milford is the shipping point for all the sheepmen of southwestern ! l.'tah. j |