The Arizona champion., 1886-10-09
PROCEEDINGS.
Ofa Special Meeting of the Arizona Sheep Breeders and Wool Grow. CTS Association, held on the rst. day of October 1886, at
 Flagstaff.

ohOPsNu' "'hS " tnS "o'ShSS VI the Treasurer,W J. Hill, P. P. Dlggs was appointed Treasurer, of the Association, R. w. Bell, on paying the initiation fee, became member.
 The following address was then read to the members by the President, H. Fulton.
 Gentlemen of the Wool Growers Association:
 Doubtless you expect few remarks from me, If not an address. l am sure that what l may say will be more in accord with the former than the latter. When meeting here it is we'll for us to exchange ideas, thereby getting information from each other that will be of great benefit to us. We want to know what the Wool in- terest of Arizona amounts to. We want to know the amount of Wool that is grown in the Territory year after year, and that, think, can be ascCftained without making call on the Wool Growers direct. We want the Association in such shape that we can talk intelligently on all matters pertaining to the Wool Growing in. dustry. As time rolls on and circum- stances make some changes we want to see that our business keeps apace with the times. We want 1t known that we have rights, and yet we must remember that others have rights equally as we'll. firmly believe that what affects one person or one class of men or Association directly affects all others indirectly if not directly. In other words, it is to my personal interest that you and my nsighbors are sailing in smooth water, and vice versa. It is said that "birds of q feather flock together" so we, as an Association, should stand together and see that any just demand we may find it necessary to make is granted. I have now stated very briefly and concisely what I should like to see this Association do. Now let us look for few moments at the outlook of our business and see fl 1t will not repay to put double energy into it.
 Words of encouragement think act as tonic. and hope that what I will now read to you, will prompt and encourage you gentlemen to labor on cheerfully, and to remain in the business you have chosen and to remain in the business you have made yourselves what you are today.
 will now read you an article from the Chicago Wool Journal of Sept, zIst.
 "The outlook for the future of sheep .husbandry the world over wa' never during the whole period of its history so encouraging for those en- gagged in the business as now; and there IS no part of the globe where the prospects are as fattering as in the Uui,ed States of America.
 The American wool grower who reads the reports of the foreign and domestic markets elsewhere published in this paper, ought to find abundant reason for faith in the future for years to come.
 There is indubitable proof that the production of wool throughout the world is less than the present con. sumptive demand. Fine wool is being put to new uses-being mixed with silk, and woven into light fabrics to be used in tropical countries in the place of cotton. What causes have combined to bring about the change are, however, of little importance. The fact suddenly appears that there is not sufficient wool raised in the world to supply the demand, and it has naturally followed that prices in Europe have advanced more rapidly than ever before in the history of the trade. Prices in this country have not as yet shown any re action in values, but 1t is plain to see that the reaction must ultimately come, and it is equally plain that with prices everywhere far above the importing price American growers will have the American market entirely to themselves until values here become adjusted to the higher range establish ed abroad.
 So long, therefore, as we do not raise two-thirds wool enough to supply American manufacturers, and the rest of the world does not raise enough for the rest of the worlds use, sheep husbandry will be the safest and best paying business in the West.