Williams news., 1907-11-30
SHEEP AND GOATS AT FAIR

from the AriZnna Republican. with corrections. making the article read up- to-date. it having appear d in the Republican during the fair. Referring az it does to the sheep and goat deps it is of specia interest to Northern Arizona and particularly this community.
 One of the live stock departments of the fair that has leaped into prominence this year from rather ohsrure place is that of sheep and goats There were exhibits of these animals at each of the two pre- ceeding fairs. hut they were not numerous. the exhibitors were extremely modest, said little about themselves and the show was not large enough to attract attention. worthy though it was. In the valley here the people are not given largely to pastoral pursuits and as the greater number of the visitors were from central and southern Arizona they did not seek diligent- ly to give the sheep men proper credit. This year Northern Ari- zona contributed largely to the at tendance and the sheep men from that section made a successful ef- fort to make a favorable showing. and the public is congratulatinP them on the wonderful advance ment made in that department this year.
 Undoubtedly the sheep exhibit ors were put to greater trouble and larger expense than any other class of fair patrons. In proof of it the reader is asked to note that one breeder drove his sheep fit! miles. then shipped 300 miles tc get here. Two others drove forty miles and shipped 25O miles. Ex- cept in three instances all the sheep men brought their animals 200 miles or over at great expense of time and money. H. J. Gray. superintendent of the. department. who was barred from competition. in order to add to the exhibit. drove his sheep sixty miles, hauled them 12 miles in a wagon and then shipped 19O miles. And that is loyalty of high order. the sort that should be taken to heart by some Salt River valley farmers and stockmen who could not ever bring a shoat or a sheat of barley a distance of half an hours ride With this kind of an effort the sheep exhibit was raised 100 per cent this year both in quantity and quality.
 For some unaccountable reason the goat breeders gave the fair thu. go-by, with one exception, though Superintendent Gray worked hard for weeks in trying to interest them The exception was Zion Brothers of this valley. who exhiait a stall of fine imported swiss milk goats
 The sheep building had been worked over and in places boards removed and Page wire substituted so visitors could more readily see the animals. The space was more than occupied and it became nec- essary to utilize a big tent for a second exhibition building. In the tent was the following stock of c. c. Hutchinson & Co.,, of WilIiam me: Fine exhibit of Oxford Down ram lambs; also one imported Oxford Down ram. three years old, shipped with a carload from Canada last year. which is a beautiful specimen of his class.
 On the opposite side of the tent E. T. Smith of Seligman had three pens of pure bred Rambouillet ram lambs and one three year old regis tered Rambouillet ram which took the sweepstakes over all rams in the department and which puts no small feather in the cap of Mir. Smith. In the same pen with this ram was the registered Delaine ram shipped by MT. Smith from Q L