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Show via private sales at the ranch, and everything settled down to normal in preparation for the next year's prospective Sale. THE SALT LAKE RAM SALE (August 30-31 - September 1-2, 1916) "I'm bid a hundred - n - I want two - two - two - well one an a quarter - quarter - quarter - twenty-five - five - five - good! Now I want a half - half - 'n I got it. Now I want a hundred n seventy-five - a hundred n seventy five - seventy five - n I got it. Two hundred - two - two - two - Yes.' Now two and a quarter - thanks! And I want two hundred fifty - fifty - fifty - all in - all done - Cgavell Sold for two hundred and fifty dollars!" The place was the Coliseum Building on the Utah State Fair Grounds in Salt Lake City, Utah. The first Ram Sale was in progress, for that year it was held as planned. Organizing a sale in this day and age may be an easy thing; but in 1916, conditions were quite different, not only because it was the first sale of its type on a large scale, but because of transportaiton and communication limitations. Also, a lack of general knowledge on the part of the sheep breeders and buyers regarding competitive hidding procedures used in auctioning naturally posed a few uncertainties. The breeders were nervous, new to the idea of selling by this method, and the buyers were the same way. The one man who was at ease was the auctioneer. Colonel Dwight Lincoln had conducted a few dispersal sales in the west 141 |