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Show this part of our state has gained as a center of the Rambouillet industry. He stood up under the keenest competition and carried the honors from sales and shows for many years in succession. People knew John K. Madsen even though they may never have met him. Sheepmen throughout the world knew that his name meant outstanding sheep. Many men have complimented him in saying that the best bucks they ever owned were purchased from him. That is the reason why he sold sheep to Japan, Russia, Manchuria, Canada, South American countries, Mexico, and other foreign countries - as well as in every section of the United States where Rambouillet sheep are raised. He was proud of his work, proud of what he had achieved, and justly so. It gave him happiness and satisfaction to know that his name meant something in the sheep business and that people far and wide knew the type and quality of sheep , sold under his name. More than once, he has expressed the thought to me, and I pass it on to the family now, that the finest monument they could erect to his memory - and the one that would please him most - would be to carry on the work for which he has given his entire life - to keep up the high quality and enviable reputation of which he was so proud, and to carry on with his name as the trademark, the business he spent his lifetime in building. 4 He also spoke of John K's deeply religious nature, although never an active, preaching man. He told of the generous nature of John K toward a good cause, and toward individuals in need of a lift. Seldon Heaps of Salt Lake City played an organ solo, "Oh My Father" in variations. 2 63 |