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

of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, c. H. Schulz and adopted. Owing to the absence of the Treasurer, w. ]. Hill, P. P. Daggs | 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, II. Fulton.
 Gentlemen of the Wool Growers Association:
 Doubtless you expect few remarks from me, If not an address. l am sure that what may say will be more in accord with the former than the latter. When meeting here it IS well 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 ascertained 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 clrcum- 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. l firmly believe that what affects one person or one class of men or Association directly affects all others indirectly ii not directly. In other words, it is to my personal  interest that you and my neighbors are sailing in smooth water, and vice versa. It is said that "birds of a 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 l should like to see this Association do. Now let us look for few moments at the outlook of our business and see it it will not repay to put double energy into it.
 Words of encouragement l think aCl ,ys q tUuiC, ard I hoPc 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.
 1 will now read you an article from the Chicago Wool Journal of Sept, 2Ist.
 "The outlook for the fuA-e of sheep-husbandry the world over was 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 hattering as in the Uuited 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 i,
 has naturally followed that prices ir
 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 it is plain to see that the
 reaction must ultimately come, anc
 1t is equally plain that with prices everywhere far above the importing price American growers will havt
 the American market entirely tC
 themselves until values here become . adjusted to the higher range establish ed abroad.
 So long, therefore, as we do no raise two-thirds wool enough to suppl, American uaanufa cturerr and ,h,