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Provincial business and official life, and is an edu- 

 cational institution of highest value, famous for its 

 "get together" luncheons and banquets at which a 

 spirit of mutual good will and public enterprise is 

 fostered with extraordinary annual success. It was 

 while in attendance at one of these Toronto shows 

 some years ago that a group of men including 

 ROBERT B. OGILVIE, WILLIAM E. SKINNER, MORTIMER 

 LEVERING and G. HOWARD DAVISON conceived the 

 idea of creating a great national show at Chicago, 

 to be managed by and for the stock-breeding and 

 producing interests of North America, and under- 

 written financially by the Stock Yard Company. The 

 scheme was laid before Mr. LEONARD, who recog- 

 nized at once the splendid vista opened. Here was 

 the ideal method of putting the great resources and 

 potential facilities of the Stock Yard property be- 

 hind the live stock industry in a practical and super- 

 latively effective manner. 



JOHN A. SPOOR, at that time President of the 

 company, is an able and conservative man. His 

 company was in the stock yard business first of all; 

 but he was in full sympathy with everything that 

 promised to promote American live stock interests, 

 so long as it did not interfere with the just measure 

 of his official responsibility to those whose invest- 



