The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-19

Inc local safes IN western w yOmlnS
for this season were opened in very
earnest yesterday and the opening was
marked by the sale of one of the heav-
lest individual clips in that part Of
the state 1t was that of the Deseret
Live Stock company of Davis county,
which is ranging its f1ocks n thu
western part of Wyoming and the
northwestern section of this territory.
This company has in the neignborhood
of $4,000 head of sheep, and the clip
was fully 100000 pounds, held at
Wasatch. Sealed bids were auuired by
the management of the company, and
the propositions offered by the buy
erS who were in attendance were all
favorable. AS was predicted the other
day would be the case, the price which
carried off the wool was top notch, be-
lng cents fiat, and the clip went to
j. E. Clinton, representing Hecht Bros,
of Boston, which house has secured
this particular clip for a number Of
years and did not intend to get left
this time.
Later in the day the Ingham clip,
OF which was small compared with the
other, however, was closed out for 1-3
cents. Some small sales also took place
are that the competition which is to be
carried on in the western Wyoming
and northeastern Utah districts is to
be even more keen than that which
characterized the sales made in south
ern Idaho and out on the Short Line in
Wyoming. There were several very
much disguised wool buyers at the
knutsford last night, and when asked
what he had purchased within the PAST
fpu dave Of -
had just returned from Evanston,
Wasatch and Hilliard, stated THAI he
had not made a bid on a pound of
wool and had no intention of dong so
While the present prices prevailed. He
claimed that the quotations on western
woods are entirely out of keeping with
those on the chief markets of the
east. yet, Notwithstanding this claim,
there are plenty of buyers who will
pay the prices asked and make a
good healthy struggle for the woods at
that. Several of the buyers who were
IN the western part of the neighboring
state attempting to make purchases
have given the thing up and returned
to Soda Springs, and some have even
gone out into Nevada. Their houses
have, as general thing, however,
agents in the immediate vicinity who
can take care of any open business
that presents itself. Many of the grow
ers who have not sold are of the opin-
ion that their interests will be better
subserved by hanging onto their woods
for some little time yet, and with
these the buyers find they can not do
business. Some consignment business
is being done, AMI, in consequence,
wool shipments from this section of
the west are frequent and heavy, this
being especially the case in the south
ern part of Idaho and the western part
of the state of Wyoming.
No Move Openly Made.
AS yet no further move has been |
made by either the cattlemen or the !
sheep owners relative to the disputed |
territory lying along the line Of the |
Union Pacific in western Wyoming !
and northeastern Utah, but it is an |
ticipated that there will yet be some |
serious trouble, either legal or person |
al, before the disputes are all settled. |
One or the other side will be forced to |
make some concessions. The sheep |
men refuse to either lease or buy the !
lands recently leased to a company of |
cattlemen by the railroad, holding that |
they are the original occupants of the |
ranges and are not forced to make |
either the leases or the purchases. At |
the conference held in the city of |
Evanston on Saturday last the matter |
was fully presented and there the |
owners of f1ocks decided that they |
would not accept the propositions made |
by the cattlemen and all existing |
questions were left in an unsettled |
condition. Efforts are being made by |
the interested parties to bring about |
a settlement, but to date these have
been unsuccessful. On Monday night !
the Associated Press sent out a state
emit to the effect that a fight of con-
siderable magnitude seemed imminent, |
thereby verifying every statement |
made by this paper on the subject.