Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-28
Willis Wilson's Little Boom.
WOOL GROWERS CALLED UPON
To Urge Upon Cons ress with Greater
Force the Importance of Preserving
Their Interests.


Force the Importance of Preserving
Their Interests.
WASHINGTON. February 2T.-The follow
ing letter has been issued to the wool
growers of the United States:
The undersigned are now in Washington
seeking legislation for the benefit OF Amer
ican wool growers. We are profoundly i'm
pressed with the great danger that threat.
ems this important industry. II this dan
ger be not speedily sverted, the business Of
producing wool of every grade aud quality
will be seriously injured, and the produc
ton of some varieties, we fear, will be rem
dered so improbable as to cause their
abandonment. This will transfer to for
eign nations the production OF the wool
consumed in the United States, to greater
or less extent, as the future may deter
mine.
consequences which they portend, 1t seems
an imperative duty that wool growers
unite cordially and actively in all proper
efforts calculated to preserve an industry
in which they have invested large sums OF
money, and that numbers, by the census
lSSO, / l,020, ,12S tlocSs Of sheep; tnat mas
spread itself into every State aud Territory
OF the Union; that adds to the wealth OF
the nation annually, by It's clip OF WOOL,
800 OJO 600, besides the value OF its prod
uct of mutton for food, and at the same
time gives employment to more than two
million Of laborers.
We Therefore, hereby request the wool
,r,wers of the United States TO hold Ma
1onal Convention at the Grand racine
Hotel, in the city OF Chicsgo, on the TN
dsy of May, A. d., 1884, each State and Ter
riIory sending such NUMBER OF uelegates as s
II d1 ems proper. The leading objects OF
the convention will be, the adoption OF
measures calculated to disseminate correct
information relating TO the magnitude,
merits and Importance OF sheep husoandry,
10 effect such an organization tnrouSnout
the Union as will erabls the one million
and twenty thousand tiOckmasters TO e1-
ercise through the hSilot box the influence
and power which belong to their mum oers
and the interests they represent 70 oossu
for them and their business hereafter mat
consideration and respect In the nails OF
congreSs that is SO justly merited; and
tbersby to secure, if possible, such reason. .
shIe inst and euuSl protection as may %
swsrded 10 other great and equally import
In this way we solemnly believe lies the
principal hope Of preserving the Prosperii,,
ty of the important asricuisulA pussi1 SUI
hlcn Is IN LQ6 hoAeo -
growers ga,
I'm NeDowell, President Pennsylvania
STATE Wool-growers' Assoc1suons
David Harpster, President OHIO SIsse
Woolgrowers' Association;
William Ball, Director In the mcniEsn
Sheep-breeders' Association;
I O. McNsry, Treasurer OF the Pensyisa.
nis State Wool-growers' Associanon
w N Coyden, Secretary OF the oni0
Wool growers Association;
IohrN Miller, Washington County. "a
DslsnO, President Of the National
WOO. growers Association; An.
~. cssnman, Secretary Of the Ma
A tionsI Wool. growers Association.
John K. Ewing. Fsyeste County Pa;
Fnller, West Virginia
a .; Snr prssidept OF State Wool-grov'
W. a. .s' Association Of California;
Ir.tns @. Stephens. Of Ohio
tn. nndersigned, not In Wasotnsson'
eoSoPrSH p Hammond. in President Of Che Aiohi
= . ssn sheep-breedsrs Association.