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by those who are now profiting, nor by those who 

 will hereafter benefit by their act. Needless to add, 

 it was not the $50,000 itself that the Stock Yard 

 Company desired, but rather the establishment of 

 an underlying personal stake in the success of the 

 undertaking and the assurance of continued active 

 support which the raising of the fund at that crisis 

 represented. 



WILLIAM E. SKINNER, who served so successfully 

 during many trying years as General Manager of the 

 show, came to the States from Canada early enough 

 in life to imbibe from his adopted country a good 

 share of that optimism and largeness of vision that 

 seems given to many who have been caught in the 

 whirlwind progress of these United States towards 

 unparalleled material accomplishments. Moreover, 

 he hauled up in the boundless booming West, where 

 familiarity for many years with the towering Rockies 

 and the uncharted range instilled into his alert and 

 retentive mind vivid conceptions of heights and 

 depths and breadths immeasurable. He brought to 

 the work of helping the International upon its feet 

 not only the oxygen of the western plains and 

 prairies, but a personal acquaintance with the stock- 

 men of the trans-Mississippi country as wide as it 

 was cordial and intimate. Put SKINNER off at any 



