The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-10
present, and it was decided they could
be called later on.ss
THE WORK OF DEFENSE.
Its Effect Upon the Wool and Sheer
Market.

The defense then began calling wit
nesses, putting them through routine
of concise questions as rapidly as pos
sible.
| J. r. FREEMAN-Live at Herrim an b,
Salt Lake County; 1 am in the sheep
business. having been engaged in il
nearly all my life; I herded chur,
sheep during 1887 and 1888; had over
1,7O0 head; l gave them up last Septem.
Der to ]. 81. Wolcott, who represented
Receiver Dyer; the sheep were of an
inferior quality; during the winter OF
1887 and 1888 the loss in the herd was
more than is ordinarily the case in
good hands under the same condition
these sheen would shear about AZ
pounds; 81 to 7 pounds is the average
a fair cash rental for the sheep l had
for one year from last October. would
be about 20 to % cents per head; /
would not give any more; my brothers
had 400 church sheep, of about the
same grade as those in my charge; they
rented from the Receiver at 25 cents
per head.
To Mr.. CRITCHLow-The first winter
had the church sheep with my fathers
afterwards We kept them separate; 1
paid the church two pounds of wool and
ten lambs-twelve lambs the first year
l don't know
WHO GOT THE SHEEP
after 1 turned them over to the re-
ceiver; they sheared under FIVE pounds
last year and under four the year be-
fore.
To Mr. WILLIAMs-I lost money each
year on the sheep at the rental I paid
the church.
CHARLES R. McBR1DE-I reside in
| sheep business; knew 1000 of
the church sheep delivered to
the receiver at Wasatch; they
were worth about 81 so per head
not more; they were under the average
sheep in Tooele County; when they
we're turned over to the receiver a fair
cash rental would be 20 to 25 cents per
head.
To MR. CR1TCHLow-I paid for sheep
one pound of wool and ten lambs to the
| hundred; these were not church
sheep; l know of no sheep being
leased at 20 cents cash rental, but We
are paying about that in actual value
for bstter sheep than the church sheep
that l know; man not fully respon-
sible would have to pay 10 cents per
head more for sheep than one not in the
same situation; l understand all men
do not have to pay their best sheep for
tithing; would not like to say what
other men do; don't pick out the fat
ones, but pay average sheep.
JOHN j. FREEMAN-I know the church
sheep; have 1850 of those turned
over to the receiver; had them four
years before then, and leased them
from year to year; we got them from
the church at about SO cents, accord
ing to the price of wool; | leased
them from Mr.. Dyer last fall; I came
and offered him % cents per head he
asked for more, but it refused to give it.
because
HAD LOST HEAVILY
at the old rate-didn't get enough to-
pay my debts; the fock 1 got were
worth $1.5) per head at the most; wool,
last year, ranged from to Ii cents per
pound; I told Mr.. Dyer that if he
wanted more than 25 cents he could
keep them himself; their quality was
below average; for one year, 20 cents
per head would be all they were worth
for %, 900.
70 Mr.. CRITCHLow-I agreed with
Mr.. Dyer to keep the old stock good:
the sheep l had were above the aver
age of church sheep.
ISAAC e. FRERMAE-Live at Herman;
1 am acquainted with a portion of the
church sheep; those I know are still
below the average Of the sheep in the
Territory; my brother and l had those
we have now for four years; they
average four and half pounds of wool,
while the average good sheep furnishes
six and half to seven pounds; we lease
now from Mr.. Dyer; We pay Is cents
if we had not obtained them at that we
would not have taken them, for they
were not worth any more; for % COZ of
such sheep, scattered in thirty to forty
places, 20 cents is fair rental for one
year.
To Mr. CRIToHLow-I think 1t was
worth cents per head to gather sheep
from various parts of the Territory; L
know men whose sheep average seven
pounds of wool; j. J. Stocking IS one of
this class of sheep owners; many of the
Saupete sheep are as good as his; we
leased such poor sheep because we
HAD I'd DO soMETHING TO LIVE;
we had intended to surrender the sheep,
independent of turning them over to the
receiver. because we were losing m oney
on them; we told A 81. Cannon, from
whom we leased them, that we did not
want them any more at that figure.
JOHN A. BEvANs-l was assessor and
collector of roocle County for 1887
our county is the main winter range of
the Territory for sheep; inspected
flocks for assessment; assessed the
sheep herded by the Mumfords-three
herds; mean Thomas Mumford and
his two sons; have since learned that
they had church sheep; those l assessed
were of an inferior quality; they had
not been graded up. and were very
"scabby" and poor; they would not
shear, on an average, over four or
four and half pounds of wool.
To Mr.. CRtTCHLow-The herd in
charge of Thomas Mumford was the
poorer of the lot; the average rental of
good sheep is two pounds of wool and
ten lambs to the hundred: I never heard
of any being let 30 low as % cents.
THOMAS MUMFoRD-I reside in Salt
Like City: have been in the business fif-
teen wears; have leased church sheep;
hads; ome from 1881 to 1888: on October L,