The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-21
j. ID. HOLIDAY, AN EXPERT, SAYS
THAT SPECULATION INJURIES
THE PRICE.
SPECTATORS, NOT BREEDERS
ARE THE SHEEP MEN OF THE
UNITED STATES, HE
SAYS.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS GIVEN.
Mystery From the KIondike
Passes Through ST. Paul-HoteI
Corridor Gossip.

j. D. Holiday, of Galveston, Tex, Is
in st. Paul for a few days. Mr. Holli-
| day is putting in patent steam sheep
| sheartng apparatus at the stockyards
| of South st. Paul. He has been largely
| interested in the sheep business, from
| the fact that his business has taken
him into every sheep raising country in
! the world. Mr.. Holiday chatted pleas
| antly with G o e reporter yester-
| day afternoon. He said
1.-The sheep men Of the United States
are large spectators and not breeders.
which accounts for the fact that Amer
lean product does not bring as high
| price as the Australian product. The
| clipping Of the Australian ranges Is
uniform in quality, and has a charac-
| ter of It's own in the market. The
sheep men in this country do not seem
to look upon the industry as a perma-
| nent one, and so much attention Is
given to other agricultural pursuits
that the farmer does not give as much
attention to sheep raising as he does
| in Australia, where it is the foremost
industry. The present high tariff is
not conducive Of fine wool, as we do
not have to compete with the Austria
liam clipping, is we did more care
would have to be taken in the breeding
or sheep. However, I think 1t only
| question Of time until we are COM
| pelled to compete with the foreign
| product, which will revolutionize the
| sheep business. The present state of
| perfection which the Australians have
| attained in the raising Of fine wool, Is
| due to their breeding and cross-breed-
ing and to years Of experience in that
| line, as 1t is the principal industry Of
| the island
1.-THE conditions in this country are
even more favorable for the raising Of
the very finest kind of wool, than in
Australia where sheep raising is upper
most. The people Of that country have
| been in the business for many years,
| and many Of the stations have been
| handed down from father to son for
| generations. 1t is not an uncommon
| thing to see a range with $4,000 or 100,-
600 sheep being fed. It is hard to
| explain the intelligent systems with
which they carry on this industry, and
the uniformity and character Of the
wool produced in Australia I have Wis
tied all the sheep sections Of the United
States and have been among sheep men
y
ly has a bright outlook, for all cir
| cumstances combine to make this a
sheep raising country, If those engaged
In the business would go in with the
intention of making the business q
life work and stop specializing in the
American sheep. We would have a
quality Of wool which would be hard to
better. 1t Is the specializing which
keeps the quality down in this coun-
try"
c. j. Pike, of Boston, was registered
at the Ryan yesterday. Mr.. Pike Is in
terested in large shoe concern of the
East, with factories in nine cities with
in a radius of 200 miles of Boston. He
says the big demand for rubber created
by the manufacture of bicycle tires has
inflated the rubber market to a large
extent. The ruling price now is IA
cents higher than last year. Rubber
shoes are 10 per cent cheaper than they
were last year, which, he says, leaves
a very small margin for the manu-
facturer. The mild weather had eff
fected their intermediate business but
their trade had been good, and they
were looking for big business. The
rubber market was firm, and the COM
modify was liable to go even higher.
Charles B. Truscott, of Portland, Or,
stopped over in St Paul a few hours
yesterday. Mr.. Truscott reports the
salmon business, in which he is en-
gagged, very poor, on account Of the
immense production or catch and
the prevailing low prices. There were
5000, 900 cases of Columbia river sal
| mon packed last year. or a total of
IA, 900, 900 pounds. The supply of sal
mon in the Columbia river would have
been exhausted long ago were it not
for the young spawn which are an
! nually put In the river by the fish COM
mission. Last year 10000, 900 Of the
embryo finntes were given home in
| the Columbia river. He says every
thing is "Klondike" on the Pacific
coast; the West seems to be mad on the
subject. He says ]. H. Stephenson,
ex~United States land commissioner,
from Dawson City. He reported that
there was no suffering there.
George Reynolds, "the mysterious" Eng
| on his return from Klondike. Probably no
| man returning from the gold region this
| year has been more written about in the
| newspapers than Reynolds. His last years
| "digg1ngs" are estimated all the way from
| $50, 600 to $4,000 but nobody really knows
! just how much he brought back with him.
| He made two trips to Klondike last year,
| and refuses to tell where or In what part Of
| Alaska his claims are situated He wears
scarf pin, and doesn't tell any one how much
money he has the result of last seasons
clean up He says Klondike is not good
! place for the average man to go, and advises
inexperienced men to keep away. He says he
had little Klondike of his own, and even
refused to tell newspaper man Of his find.
!
T. H. Carver. of Detroit. is at the Mer-
| chants.
B. F. Saunders. of Salt Lake City. is at the
| Merchants.
| C. w: Eaton. of Chicago. was among the
| guests at the Merchants yesterday.
H.: A. Francis. of Philadelphia. Is stopping
| at the Clarendon.
A. L. Porter, Of Duluth, is registered at
| the Windsor.
NJ. w. Williams, of Lanesboro. is stopping
! at the Windsor.
| c. A. Grant, of Chicago. is at the Windsor
Arrivals at the Metropolitan yesterday in
Guided: Charles Hayes and wife. Canton,
Wis; J: N. Pencell and wife. Gracevil.e.
| Mimi; c. E. Warner. Billings. Mont; II. S.
Bosworth, Chicago, Ill; G. Mortay. Missoula.
| Mont.
| Of Interest to Labor Organizations.
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