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Show GREATEST SHEEP SHOW EVER SEEN Kred lloninpton, chairman of the roinmittee having In charge the International In-ternational Sheep show, to he held In Ogden during the time of the Four-' SUtte Fair, unhesitatingly states that the jraihering of hccp men will be the greatest the country has ever known. The fhuw opens September 23rd and Mr. Ilerrington sajs there can be no question but that there will be the Pieatest bunch of blooded pheep and the largest a.-sernblaKe of advanced sheep growers In attendance attend-ance that has gathered at any abeep show and auction pale in the history of tho hheeji rowln business. The exhibition building Bias Just been completed and will contain 2M pen. This li about a fourth larger than wa.-t at first thought to be necessary, nec-essary, the change In the plans being be-ing made when It was found that a building any mnalW than one of 250 pens would bo entirely Inadequate. Entries for the big show are coming in dally from all i.arts of the United State and Canada. A, letter was received yesterday irom John Rawlins of Forest, Out., utming that he will be present at the Ogden show with SOo yearling CotFwold lambs. 3T Dartmoor lambs pnd 1$ h-ad of Ramboulctt lambs. Mr. Raw lings Is one of the most prominent sheep raUera in the Dominion Do-minion of Canada. Cooper Nephew h" Pedlcree Stock company of Chicago ha lgnl(lcd lta Intention to be represented nt the coming bhov with exhibits of Shrop-t-hlrvs. Oxford. Hampshire, Cots-voids Cots-voids and Sonthdowns. Cooper & Nephews are among the largest English Eng-lish pheep Importers In America, and thrlr exhibit in thl city win show the ery best of their stock F. S. Klng of Iiramie. Wyo , who. is uow capturing prizes at the state falrn In the eat. will be In this city n tbe 23J and ha ordered 30 pen reserved fr hi display. Ceorc McKerrow & Sons of Pe-1 waukeo, Wl.. will be here with 30 pens of wool producers. . This exhibit ex-hibit will Include three different breed and every sheep will be a prle winner. W. F. Renk of Sun Prairie, Wis., has ordered that 30 pens be reserved for his display, which will include Hamp.h!res and Shropshire, lu addition ad-dition to hi exhibit Mr. Renk will bring 10 head of Shropshire yearling year-ling to thla city and place them on hale. These are only a few of tho many entries that have been accepted by the board of directors. Chairman Ilerrington, in telling of the extraordinarily extraor-dinarily large number of entries that are being received, stated last night that if they continued to pour In at ' thi? local offlco it would be nece. I sary to enlarge the exhibition bulld-lng" bulld-lng" to double Its present lze. "Jut how to .handle all of the displays is what Is giving m gome trouble right now," said tho chairman. chair-man. "I'm afraid we will havo to build another addition to our building build-ing in order to admit all the she.'p men who desire to take part in the fair. Thero is an unusual Interest being taken lu the ihn all over th country, and every mall bringg uj iqoiv cntrie. It will be the greatest exhibition of sheep that has ever been held in any town, mate 0r country coun-try In the world. I don't think anything any-thing In sheep history wnj compare with It- B Is poIdr to get a now paco for sheep bow promoters. |