The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-05
ROYAL HEIR BRINGS
 S45OO ON RESALE [. FOR RED CROSS FUND
National Live Stock Com- mission Company Makes Donations to Red Cross
 Amounting to $7350

Royal Heir. junior champion at
 Red Cross bull sale last Tuesday, S.
 put up at auction again yesterday after- noon and bid in by the Red Cross bull
 sale committee at S4500, making a total
 of 5000 he has added to the treasury of the Birmingham chapter of the Red Cross
 The sale took place at Second avenue
 and Twentieth street shortly after ,
 o'clock, and the bidding was spirited
 trcm the beginning. Starting with S5Oo, it jumped $1o0 at time until it reached
 s450o. Despite the short notice given
 of the sale, several hundred people as
 sembled at the place designated and half a dozen or more men were in on the bidding.
 Royal Heir was donated to the Red Cross by the Illinois Shorthorn Breeders
 association and sold last Tuesday to the National Live Stock Commission conn., pany, of National Stock Yards, Ill., nois for $500. Immediately after the
 sale the purchaser designated the Btr-
 mingham chapter of the Red Cross as
 the beneficiary and the money was
 thereupon turned over to the local chap ter
 Wednesday Frank l. Derby, the orig
 inal and prime mover in the Red Cross
 sale received telegraphc instructions
 from the National Live Stock Commis-
 sion company to offer Royal Heir at
 auction again, the proceeds to go to the Red Cross chapter to be designated by the purchaser. Yesterdays sale fol-
 lowed these instructions.
 The National Live Stock Commission | nf yyb R HnnSeIeX. a southern man, is president, donated two bulls to the Red Cross, one of them bringing $l300 and the other $l550 at the sale Tuesday, which, with the $4co0 real fzeq yesterday, makes total or $tSso going to the local Red Cross chapter as
 the direct result of this companys gen erosity.
 Mir. Henseley and the other officials and owners of the National Live Stock | Commission company, one of the largest land most progressive live stock com mission companies in the country ana the only one contributing to the sale, have taken lively interest in the south- 1 ern cattle industry for several years ana have contributed largely toWaru ies ie- cent development.
 The Alabama Coal Operators associa- | ton. who bought MT. Derby's heifer at the sale Tuesday for S1oo0, yesterday pre- I sented her to MT Derby,s youngest child. This was done after George B. McCor- mick, Erskine Ramsay, James l.. Davld- son ana other officials and members or the association got together and decided to make the gift as an expression or l their appreciation of the wonderful work of Mir Derby in securing the bulls and making the sale a success. Ihe COW and all her offspring, or the proceeds from the sales thereof. are to De held in trust for the infant, now IA months of age until he is 2l It is estimateu that by the time he is of age ne vii have one or the finest and largest iierus of Sbortborn cattle in the country.
 The average price at which the original
 5o bulls sold Tuesday was s125s, the high est average ever. made at any sale or similar number of bulls in this country which speaks well for Alabama's appre- citation of high-bred cattle, as all or them were bought by Alabamians.