Mistaken Identity
February 12, 1936
Certain of the more discerning cattlemen of this section are objecting seriously to a segment of an article appearing in the March National Geographic Magazine which classes the country about Susanville as a sheep producing section.
The complete statement, as it appears on page 321 of the magazine is: âOne newly built branch of the Western Pacific, extending gradually toward eastern Oregon, serves the great Red River Lumber Companyâs mills at Westwood and the sheep country about Susanville.â
The objecting persons say that they have always considered the section as principally a cattle region and had no reason to think that anyone else thought otherwise.
Some of them ask if this section being advertised as a sheep country and wonder what effect it will have on their business if this is so.
