The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-08
WOOL
|old Their Annual Session IN
i Hall-Small Attendance
Plenty of Interest.
Wages observation-disclosures
titiOned Not to Reduce the
Wool Tariff.

m ElkS nall vi dCCouut VI tho
mes there was a slight attend
ut forty-tive members being pres
Lhe meeting was called to order
<U. White of Tibet, president OF the
ation. He was elected temporary
man and Col. Rice of this city sec
-. The following were appointed
nmittee on resolutions:
LC, White Of Ubet, Paris Gibson OF
Falls, G. II. Campbell OF Great
and D. f. Folsom Of White Sui
E6prings.
Rice, Paris Gibson, and Fred
: d we're appointed a committee to
ktopics for discussion.
6mmittee consisting Of j. II. Nc
& of the Musselshell, Jack Waite of
and b. G. Toole of Sweet Grass
E4ppointed to furnish a report on Or
business.
convention then adjourned for
7h1n the session was resumed in the
rroon the following officers were
1d6tsd for the ensuing year:
prSSident, ID. f. Folsom, White Sui
III Gprings.
w president. B. G. White, Ubet.
Socretary, j. II. Rice. Great Falls.
arkeasurer, A. Kingshury, Great Falls.
Hxocutive committee, j. A. Mcknight,
tSrtnsdale; j. +. Bower, Stanford; II.
~k1aeison, Cascade; George F.. Patterson,
onton; Chas. O'Neal, Billings.
Tho committee to select topics for dis
unoion reported in favor Of considering
10 following in their order: Prices
aid Tor berding and general ranch
sork; 2-prices paid for sheep shearing;
profitable breeding; l-handling wool;
Tho advantages of organization.
Resolutions.
The committee on resolutions reported
he following which were adopted:
Whereas, The present low price of
,ool and the consequent depreciation in
be price of sheep and other property
,ertaining to the wool growing industry
,eve antailed absolute bankruptcy upon
ssrv md ;rren.rahIe L,ss upon all mar.
- ;ntarastod and
Wheraas The chanped condition of
~ hms;noss damands y radical chance
a the manner of conducting the same,
AeraSore he II
Rsaolve6, Nv the Montana woolgrow.
n in convention assembled that we ex.
,act and insist that our employees shall
,ccapt a scale of wages commensurate
With the %depreciation in the valuation
Il our product,
Resolved. That any ~unfavorable legis-
lation in the Immediate future would in
tansify the present deplorable condition
n our business and we therefore ask
representatives in congress to use
their best endeavors to prevent placing
wool on the free list.
Resolved, That we believe more can
ba accommodated by concert of action
Than bv individual effort, and it is there.
tha duty of this association to co.op
with the National Woolgrowers as
and with that end in view VIC
be represented AT the NallOna
CHICAGO on the 18th inst.
The subject of the prices to be pait
tor ranch WORK was then eahen up an,
Ss-So"s $40 a" nor mnnth and ranch hand.
rs was tabled. The subject was ther
discussed from various points of view
bone ebjecting to being bound by an.
xereement. Henry Nelson spoke ear
asstly in favor of the herders, claiming
~ nature Of their work was such tina
IL vculd be hard to set any fixed price t.
l0jby. He maintained that IA herder'
Vork was more trying than that of
inch hand because he was exposed t
"a kinds of weather and should be re
mnnerated accordingly. Fred Poole, }
~ Waite, Col. Rice, Ira Ingram, n. 1
Nbrter and the chair also spoke on tn
inject. Finally Il resolution that con
1dering the low price Of wool SO to 50
vas a reasonable compensation for herd
IS was passed.
/ IA 5 p. m. the convention adjourned t
occept Supt. Dickinson's invitation t
|ddc to the dam on the electric road.
rv.,i,u scs.,,,.
. ~
II WAS $40 %. M. before the wool grow
Ia a.. ove,;ng sessio