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Show Seven Agencies Furnish Outlet For Live Stock The number of selling agencies doing business at the Ogden Union Un-ion Stock Yards was increased to seven with the opening of the J. W. Burgess Live Stock Commission Commis-sion Co. at this market Monday, August 1. Since Ogden furnishes an outlet for the bulk of the livestock produced pro-duced in the Inter-Mountain section, sec-tion, this growth in the number of commission firms operating on this market is considered by stockmen stock-men to indicate renewed activity in livestock marketing. The personel of the Burgess firm is made up of well known people in the livestock trade oi the Western portion of the United States. The firm will operate under un-der Federal supervision, and is bonded to protect the interests of the livestock producer or Bhippei for whom it may handle livestock. A Western market for Western livestock has been considered ne cessary to the best interests of the cattle, sheep and hog producers pro-ducers of this territory. And the growth in market activities in Ogden seems to be a fulfillment of this need. The sales of sheep alone on this market have increased in-creased 347 per cent in five year.-i, with healthy gains registered for bcth sheep and cattle. |