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Show ohn H. Seely Metres Big Sale Of Cattle John II. Seely made one of the largest sales of registered cattle Tuesday that has been known here for some time. The Utah Construction Construc-tion Company purchased fifty of Mr. John H. Seely and Prize Winners Seely's fine young bulls for their large ranch out in Nevada. Twenty of the registered animals sold for $125 and up and the remaining thirty thir-ty being a choice selection of grades sold for $75 each. The animals have not yet been delivered as the state of Nevada lias a quarantine against shipping livestock into that state at the present time. This will cause a 1 short delay in the delivery of the animals. The Utah Construction Company is running about 3,000 head of cattle on their large ranch and would have purchased more animals of Mr. Seely f he had been prepared for them. . -r- - nyv rsrxr--: - rr .Mi4vijj';'"-,iWiqTKrasj ' O 1')' . w V l r - , 3 Rambouillet Ram Imported in 1914 Just at present the above mentioned v number is all that he had for sale, t Mr. Seely has a large number of show animals on his farm. He has sold 19 other choice animals to pri- ; vate individuals since the beginning "t of the year. 5 The following story of a Livestock Farm written by W. H. Olin for the December Railroad Red Book is an interesting article giving the histor Of Mr. Seely's fine cattle: "One of the early settlements in eastern Utah was at lit. Pleasant. It was in the early '5 0's when the first settlers arrived to establish a co.lony town amongst the foothills j of the "Wasatch mountains. One of these energetic pioneers was a European Eur-opean by birth, who liked good cattle, cat-tle, and, as far as those close times would permit, kept a good grade ol Shorthorns. His son John, as he truged barefooted over foothills in search of his father's little band of cattle, to "round" them in for the nights, studied this animal and that one, to see which had the best con-formature con-formature and was the animal with the greatest number of good points. Thus, day by day, he made his. father's fath-er's grade Shorthorns his text book and studied them as studiously as did more fortunate boys their books in school. "As he went over mile after mile of the free government range in that early day, he resolved that some day those acres should be his, and feeding feed-ing on those grassy acres should be the best Shorthorns money could buy, and these, like the land, should be the property of John H. Seely. "Since the man is but the boy in embryo, and the wish is father to the thought, this resolution grew as the boy grew and became the dominant purpose of the developed man. Hard, energetic work well directed and a saving habit inherited from his ancestry an-cestry enabled him to "arrive" in his young manhood. "Whatever money he could save went into land while that land was comparatively cheap. As a result, Mr. Seely today has probably one of the largest and one of the best stock ranches in all Utah, comprising some 17,000 acres of mountain and foothill foot-hill pasture land. Within this area are also many acres of choice meadow mea-dow and general crop land. These holdings enabled Mr. Seely to establish estab-lish a breeding farm that, to the writer, is one of the most interesting he has found in this western country. "The breeding herd was established estab-lished in 1893. "His foundation Shorthorn blood is from that most excellent animal "Choice Goods." Many of his present pres-ent Shorthorn herd of 300 registered cows were imported direct from England. Eng-land. He has been able, by these importations to keep from inbreeding inbreed-ing in his herd, and also is enabled to bring potent, desirable blood into the West. , "That is why the Seely breeding farm has become famous for its good blood and outstanding individuals all over the West'. "At the Utah State Pair this year first prize was awarded a junior calf and also first prize to a two-year-old heifer from this herd. "Mr. Seely also specializes in breeding Ramboullet sheep. It is not often so celebrated a "cowman" loves the "woolly sheep," but Mr. Seely is an exception to this rule. He has perhaps made more importations impor-tations of good Rambouillet blood than any other breeder in America. It is said that he has the largest flock of registered Rambouillet ewes in the United States. His foundation blood came from the original home of the breed in Europe. The head of his flock of top ewes is an imported import-ed ram costing $1,000. A ram, imported im-ported this year has the most remarkable re-markable fleece for texture and length seen on a sheep of this breed in America. "Mr. Seely sold 1,100 registered rams in 1913, and every ram he cared to part with of the 1914 crop was spoke for almost before it was born. Blood from the Seely flock of Rambouillet sheep is found not only throughout all Utah, but practically all over the West. "Good blood tells, and Mr. Seely's success is an encouragement to a young man to have in mind an ideal and persistently work to the accomplishment accom-plishment of the same. Not a bull nor a Rani is saved for breeding purposes pur-poses on the farm, or for sale, that docs not conform to Mr. Seely's Ideal, determined upon in these earlier j years, when, as a bare foot boy, he ; open range." "tended his father's livestock on the "It is this desire, determinedly adhered ad-hered to, which enables, the young man today the same as yesterday to arrive at the sought for goal of his ambition. "We need more livestock breeders of Mr. Seely'a type, to build up the flocks and herds of our boundless West. All honor to these "path-breakers" "path-breakers" of pioneer days, and may their posterity most jealously guard and zealously build upon this heritage heri-tage of their fathers." |