Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-17
WOOL MEN ARE Blue.
Their Trouble is Not Alone The Low
Price Of Wool.
THEY SUFFERED FROM WEATHER,


Tho wool growers OF Utah are OK.
pofiencing a season Of disaster aslue
from the losses caused by tho low price
ob'alnaGlo for the wool clip, and It IL
no wonder that most OF them are feel
Ing blue. "rhe worst year Utah over
saw for sheep" 10 the universal Yer.
dict and the iacts and figures shown
Justify the finding.
"lho reason there ,s 10 little Utah
muItons IN the market today" said an
experienced sheep man this morning,
ia because there IL very little Utah
mutton III for sale this teasnn. Tho
sheop are merely framu Of bone af,or
coming through the long winter. There
Is complaint about the low price Of.
Tered for mutton sheep. hut the price
Is not low when good mutlons are
bought II they arc In satisfactory
condition for market, the butchers
viii readily pay $500 to 50 each for
them; but the s2.75 and 50 oilers arc
for sheep that have not yet recov-
cred from the winter, aud they
nre mot worth any more for
meat Most Of the mutton Ia
the market now comes from the ea,t
The loss u Utah men from having
their sheep brought into poor condition
by the late spring Is enormous. When
you add TO this the comparatively
small returns on wool, aud the large
proportion OF sheep that has died this
spring, II IL plain why We look on thi.
year ns the worst in our experience.
The other day one Of my friends vas
no discouraged that no dlspose1 OF his
whole dock for 81 nor henu, not count
INK the lambs, which were thrown Ia
with the lot, rs was also the entire wool
clip"
Ipoto are but fow sections where
more encouraging report than this IL
given. T.. II. CallisteT, who has u.
turned from his sheep herds In west.
efn wyoming, was asked t0dsy ~ 20
how matters we've with himself and
others. He said, "well, NJ TAR ~ we
are concerned, | suppose should not
complain, we have been 40 much more
tjttunate than others. Yet with u II
has been the poorest year We have
known. We got Oh comparatively
Hight In the way Of losses, for we had
our sheep on a ranch on which the
Iced had not been eaten for four or
nve years, 40 We were fairly sup lied.
In the Landing season our increase
was 10 or - per cent less than IN ordi.
nary Year,. hut others did not fare no
well, apd many lost 70 10 30 per cent
OF their herd. Up at Wasatch,
where the sheep from the desert were
brought, the loss was very heavy, and
the hills there were dotted with car
casses. | was Informed that some
herds lost One-hal! Of their number.
Considerable Of the losses IN some parts
out that way this year was due TO
eoyot y, who have Increased In num-
Der, and committed many depTeda-
lions. | think the western Wyoming
men suffered less than those In west
EN- Utah, though those Ia Wyoming
who took their sheep well 10 the north
lost more than either"
Otherwool growers speak In tho same
way about the general situation, the
common expression being that II IL
lawful bad" They say inst feed was
10 scarce at the lambing grounds and
The ewes 70 spare Ia their flesh that
they would leave their young 10 perish
Ia their eager search Tor food. Ewes
and lambs are said 10 have peTiahed by
thousands M result OF the half.starved
condition into which they had been
by tho prOuaoted winter and
scarcity OF food.