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Show PREOFCTSSUCCESS FOR SEP; SHOW i j. A letter just received by the promoters pro-moters of the his sbecu show to bo bold In Ogden from September 23 to 20, from the eerrtaiy of tho National Na-tional Wool Growers' association predicts success for the local enterprise enter-prise and comments upon Oglen in a very favorable manner. The letter Is written to Chairman Fred Ilcrrfngton by George S Walker, Walk-er, well known among fcheep men, nnd reads In part m follows; "Permit me to congratulate you and jour several ooniru ittces, ainl also the people or Ogden and the heep and wool growers of tho Inter-mountain counlr. upon the splendid ar-langements ar-langements for this exhibition, which from the present indications promise to eclipse anything any similar show ever held in the western country, if net in the United States. Your pre-iclvtm pre-iclvtm list is all that could be desired, nnd should, and doubtless will, attract at-tract exhibitors from all parts of this country and Canada. Tho Fourth Annual Midwinter Sheep t-how, held In your city lat January in connection -with the Forty-sixth ADntta! convention of the National Wool Growers' association, was an eye-opener to the sheep show world, and demonstrated not only the ability of western men to arrange and successfully suc-cessfully conduct a sheep xhow of magnitude, but It also demonstrated the fact that here in the Inter mountain moun-tain region are bred the finest specimens speci-mens of the several types ef wool and mutton sheep to be found In America. "Ogden Is tho center of the greatest great-est theep and wool-growing region In the world, and id peculiarly well located lo-cated for the conduct of an annual fair such as yon have planned. Surrounded iis It Is by the four largest larg-est sheep and wool growing state3 In the union, Wyoming producing 10.000,000 pounds of wool, Montana produclnc 34 000.000 pounds, Idaho with 21.000,000 pounds. Utah with 1 1.OOO.00O pounds. Then you have adjacent to Ogden the states of Oregon Ore-gon producing 1 .".,00(1,000 pounds. Nevada Ne-vada producing nearlv 7,000,000 pounds, and California with 13.000,000 pounds, the seven states combined producing- morn r,han two-fifths of the entire wool crop of the United States. "In recent years the eastern breeders breed-ers have been compelled to sit up and take notice of the results of breeding in the Rocky Mountain country, and these annual sheep shows will serve to arouse still greater great-er interest, with the result that the range flocks will steadily improve to tho profit of all concerned." |