The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-29

market. Justice Bateman & Co.'S cir
cular Of July 10Th, Of this year, quotes
it at from % to % cents in Philadel-
phia.
A heavy wool man told the writer of
this a few days ago, that it was esti-
mated that Utah would be short 2,000,
900 pounds because of the killing off of
the flocks. That would be just about
Utah's proportion of the total shortage
Of S7,202, 597 pounds.
The medium wool quoted as averag-
ing 81 cents per pound in 1S9O-91 was
no doubt secured wool, and that is now
selling at So cents. 1t is very easy to
iuggle with figures even if figures
themselves do not lie. There are diff
ferent grades Of medium wool. There
is a difference, too, between washed
woods and secured woods. 1t is the
medium washed of the No. 1 grade
that Justice Bateman & Co. say are
selling at % to 25 cents, but they add
that the same woods secured are held
at So cents.
Now as to the killing off of the Utah
fiocks. The heavy wool man" from
whom the Tribune derived its informa-
ton 60 must be a blood relation of
the well known gentleman" and the
reliable old lady, who used to figure
as dummies on which to hang Tribune
anti-Mormon fictions.
The truth of the matter is that
though there was a general loss in
the number of sheep from 1894 to 1895
in Nebraska. Kansas, Iowa, Texas.
New York, Missouri, Kentucky and
West Virginia, the number in Utah
increased S9.S97 head. The killing off
of the Utah focks" was all in that
mythical heavy wool mans" other
eye. or in the Tribunes woolly imagin-
alton.
By reference to the same firms re-
port it will be found that the terri
tories are being relied upon to make up
the losses in the states we have men
toned. Also that the territorial woods
which sell at from IL to Is cents are
held at from So to 40 cents secured.
The shrinkage of unwashed Utah
woods in former years was 20 per cent.
1t is much less this year and that will
add to the prices which are obtained
by the wool men.
The wool report knocks out some
other Republican high tariff vagaries.
We were to be flooded with cheap
Australian woods which would bring
down domestic woods to three cents a
pound or drive them out of the mar
ket The Boston report quotes Austria
liam secured at four cents a pound
higher than Montana secured.
The Justice Bateman figures show
that the consumption of wool in the
United States during the fiscal year
ending June so, 1895, was the largest
on record, and not only exceeded by
over 100000 pounds that of the year
1898, which was the largest then on
record, but exceeded by 100000
pounds the average of the past five
fiscal years. For 1895 the consumption
was 32S, 43S,S5S pounds OF domestic
woods, 2O3, 70S,635 pounds of imported
and 107,254,143 pounds of imported in
goods, rags, shoddy and waste, max
ing total of $50, 400, 636. The average
total consumption for the FIVE previous
years was 571.61O,S47
This great use of foreign staples
shows very plainly that the United
States does not produce within over
300,00O,OO0 pounds the amount of wool
necessary to supply this country's
manufactures, yet high tarifites
would shut out all foreign woods by
exorbitant duties and cripple the
wooden industry.
The sheep men are doing very well;
not so well as they soon will, but
with the increase of their focks and
the rise in prices of their wool, they
are recovering from past losses and
they are encouraged by a rising mar
ket under a Democratic tariff. They
see through the shoddy arguments
and waste figures used to deceive
them by Republican advocates of the
protection heresy. and will not again
suffer Republican wool to be pulled
over their eyes.