The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
LOOKING FOR FALL WOODS.
Eastern Buyers Are Already After
the Usual Utah Clips.

Eastern Buyers Are Already After
the Usual Utah Clips.
Already several of the eastern wool
buyers are making inquiry regarding
the prospective clip of Utah autumn
woods and local dealers are sending
out their feelers in order to locate the
various f1ocks which are to be shorn
this fall. The late clip of last year
was in the neighborhood of 300, 900
pounds but this year there is no way
of telling at this time just what will
be the production. Only in the extreme
southern part of the territory is any
fall clipping done, but there the sheep
are shorn about the first day of Octo-
Der and then driven away out on the
deserts or onto the breaks of the Colo
RADIO, where the conditions are favor
able for winter sheep raising.
Has Fixed the Annual Clip.
In its September bulletin, the Ma
tional Association of Wool Manu-
vestigations as to the clip of the
United States for the year 1895. The
total product, washed and unwashed
is put at 294, 296, 726 pounds, as COM
pared with 325, 210,12 pounds for the
year previous. Reduced to a secured
basis the total clip for this country
was 125, us, $50 pounds. The number of
sheep in the United States on the first
day of April of this year was 39,949, 1888
head and this gives an average yield of
6375 pounds per head as against 6.395
for the previous year. The f1ocks of
Utah, Colorado and Pennsylvania show
slight reductions in average and the
shrinkage in the general total is due
TO that fact. In the United States
there was a decrease in the number of
sheep, but this did not occur in Utah,
where there was an increase Of some
q, 900 head The bulletin will state
that in all cases where there was a
shrinkage in the weight of the fleeces,
there was also a reduction in the
shrinkage of the woods. This latter
denotes an improvement in the staple
of the clips.
Prices Are Stationary.
There has been practically no change
OF recent date in the domestic wool
quotations on the eastern markets, but
the prices of all foreign staples have
made advances of a marked nature
within the month. The Australian pro-
duct of all grades is now considerably
higher than is that of the United
States and this is also the case with
practically all Oh CHe OlIlel IuDpoI eei-
lions. Domestic fleeces are held about
steady, with the indications for the
future very favorable. Just as soon
as the manufacturers get we'll along
with the heavy stocks laid in by them
early in the season there will be con-
siderably more activity.
sheep Are Coming Down.
Hon. John C. Mackay has just re-
turned from the western part OF the
state of Wyoming, where, in company
with a large number of other Utaf
sheepmen, he has his focks. He states
that the cool weather is bringing the
sheep down out of the mountains anc
out toward their winter ranges. The
country is very dry. but the f1ocks are
in good condition and there will be ne
losses on account of the state of the
ranges. For the next few weeks some
heavy shipments of mutton sheep viii
be made from that section. Prices O.
sheep have declined considerably I'M
der the great influx on the principa
| markets.