The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10
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Va baO WOOlCA Illllo az
Provo; am acquainted with the wool of
the Territory; am also a sheep owner;
/ have ha"dled the wool from the
fchurch sheep; they shear four to FIVE
pounds; [ let first-clas5 sheep at one
and half pounds wool and ten lam s
in 1881; in September, 1887, he notiti,
us that he would not be responsible for
the ~ during the coming winter; the
winter was hard. and we received but
one and half POUNDS of wool and no In
crease; this was 1917 cents per head at
the ri, hest price of wool; for % 900
head of church sheep, for one year,
from October l. 1883, q fair rental would
be 20 or 2279 cents; would not take
them for one year even at that; the out
look for sheep Was poor last Ootober.
To JUDGE MARsHALL-rhe ordinary
term of leasing is two pounds of wool
per head and ten lambs to the hundred,
with no security; the average shearing
is SIX pounds; A. o. Smoot. my father,
has some sheep in Castle Valley; l do
cattle, horses or sheep; / don't believe
he has; L know of no church stock in
Castle Valley since 1880
JAMES A. BEAM reside in Provo;
am. farmer and stock raiser; have
handled some sheep; have leased some
herds and am to some extent familiar
with the sheep industries in this Terri
tory; am nots acquainted with the
church sheep; the usual rate of leasing
fair average sheep in Emery county is
about one and one half pounds of wool
to the head and ten lambs to the hun
dred; have no acquaintance with cash
rental for terms of one year; three
years Is the usual term of rental.
! To MARSHALL received some stock
from Bishop Sheets about ten or eleven
years ago; raised them in Emery
County; they have all been delivered to
the church except 1t might be a
FEW sTRAGGL1NG CRITTERS;
don't know where they are now.
SIMON HIBBARD-I reside at West
Jordan, in this county; have been fol-
lowing the sheep business for the last
ten years; am not sheep owner, but
have had church sheep and other sheep
| on shar s; am acquainted with great
many f1ocks Of church sheep; as gen.
eral thing they are of an inferior grade;
l lease d 700 sheep from Mr.. Pickard for |
my boys; the agreement was to give |
two pounds of wool and ten lambs to
the 100, provided the winter did not go |
would knock something off. Mr.. Pick |
ard took me to see another lot of 900; |
they were very inferior lot; he wanted |
me to take them, but 1 told him |
wouldn't
TAKE THEM FoR NOTHING
and keep the old stock good, and
wouldn't like to take them st that rate
the sheep had would be worth about
$3.50 per head; from 20 to 22k cents
apiece would be more than [ would care
10 give for the church sheep and be re
sponsible for them; during the ten
years [ had church sheep l gave two
pounds of wool and twelve LAMBS, but |
ran away behind on that; l notified the |
church last fall that was ready to give |
up my lease; my sheep sheared three |
and one-half pounds last year; on an |
average they sheared four and one-half |
pounds.
OSCAR HUNTER-Reside at American |
Fork; been engaged in the sheep bust |
;HBss some ten years; the price of sheep |
and wool was reduced last fall; offered |
my sheep at 81 rs per head, throwing |
in my bucks, which were worth S12; the
only offer 1 got was 81 %; I couldn t |
year before that my sheep were worth
$3.50 per head.
s. J. LAYToN-Resided at Kaysville |
for twenty-three years; was engaged in
sheep business for two years; gave SOC
he d for some of my sheep; for others |
agreed to give two pounds of wool and
sixteen lambs; did not make success
of it at this rate; in fact l
HAD TO MAKE AN ASSIGNMENT;
I lacked few sheep of making up the
old stock at the end of the year.
JAMES l.. 1AYLoR-Aave been en-
gagged in sheep business for past ten
years; the usual terms of leasing are
two pounds of wool per head and fifteen
lambs to the hundred, or so cents per
head, and keep the old stock good;
there is no money in the business at
this rate; it will break every man that
takes it at that price; the church sheep
are on inferior lot; he wouldn't agree
and keep the old stock good; l would |
want to he paid for taking them.
Mr. WILLIAMs--You may have the |
witness.
The other side didn't want him.
WILLIAM PRoBERT-Reside at Holden,
Willard County; have been engaged in
the sheep business for the last six
years; have $50 head of church sheep |
that got from Mr.. Pieksrd: they are
poor class of sheep, below the aver
age; am TO pay Mr.. Pickard two
pounds Of wool and nine lambs per
leo for the years rental: the usual
rental is half the wool and half the |
lambs given aftec the old stock has |
been made good; there was general |
depression In the sheep and wool mar
ket last fall; wouldn't give zoe. per head |
for 25 900 head of sheep of the class 1 |
leased.
To MARSHALL did not see the sheep |
1 have bstore leased them; on cash |
basis this would be 37Xc. par head;
furnished the bucks, as it happened; |
1 thought there were bucks with tt Q |
sheep, and was fool enough not %
enquire, and
SO GOT LEFT.
EDWIN BooTH-Reside al Nephi; been |
engaged in the sheep business for about |
fourteen years; hsd seen no church
sheep in the last year or two: judging
from those have seen they are an in