Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-14
SHEEP AND WOOL.

1--WE can tell you nothing new IN the
wool business this week s, III meme
Der OF the firm OF Rove Morris and
Summerhays 20 the News today
Some wool is being shipped from Utah
20 eastern points 10 commission houses
That are ADVANCING from 10 20 ~ cents
per pound upon %, IN the wool brings
more than this. the margin viii go TO
the owners, minus the expense In hand
ling IT, which. OF course goes To- the
commission dealers The owners Of
wool are now taking that course in
preference TO holding their product for
the season The fact is that many Of
them need money and are compelled 20
take this on some similar action The
immediate outlook for the wool market
is anything but bright
Since the foregoing was put In type,
information comes TO hand OF an ex-
tensive deal which was cousummated
late last evening. by James H. clinton
the well known Nephi wool man. for
and In behalf OF Hecht. Lehman &
company. Of Boston. Through the trans
action Mr.. Clinton negotiates the sale,
or rather has secured an advance upon
train load, Of a little more than thirty
cars. What the figures are the parties
interested decline to state The wool
will be shipped via the Rock Island
Route and belonged 90 the following
firms and individuals: Deseret Live
Stock company, $4,000 pounds; Wrath
all clip, 125,000. Hatch Bros, 5000;
Egan clip $4,000; Anderson & Bates,
l25OOO; Robbins Bros. 10000.
Laramie CWyo) Boomerang: The
county commissioners had under dis
cusslon the question Of taxation Of mi-
gratory bands OF sheep that are driven
into this county and ranged during the
summer and on which no taxes are paid
into the county treasury II is said
that at least 100000 head Of sheep come
into Albany county every year and
range for several months without any
taxes being collected on them Steps
win be taken at once 10 collect the
county's portion Of the taxes levied on
these tiocks.
Twenty-Five hundred head Of mutton
sheep were loaded on the Union Pa
cihc cars at billiard. Wyoming, last
night for Chicago. The principal own
ers are the Mackey. Rigby and Callister
Bros, Of salt Lake,
Hllard and Casper sheepmen finished
unloading 100000 pounds of wool at
Evanston, Wyoming yesterday. This
wool was placed I'M a store house, UNI
der insurance, awaiting a rise In the
market
At the Piedmont, Wyo., corrals this
season $500 sheep were shorn, produc-
ing 100000 pounds OF wool Thlrty-siX
shearers were employed and they aver
aged 81 sheep each day. or $500 each
dav for the whole crowd. Joe Robins,
Of Provo Utah. was the expert, shear
ing $500 sheep In twenty-One days,
or l20 per day
American Sheep Breeder: The recent
English order forcing Argentine sheep
20 be butchered az the port OF entry is
curtailing the shipment OF sheep from
South America and puts American NUT
ton on q level with the River Platte
The price Of English mutton has adj
vanced 10 the highest point In the his
tory OF the country The appalling loss
by flood Of 100000 sheep In the River
Platte district In South America and
the continued and awful drouth In Aus
tralia, combined with the losses In
South Africa owing 10 the war, win in
crease the worlds wool storage by
many million pounds There is every
reason 20 believe that wool viii be much
higher next fall and winter
We have just been advised by wire
from Great Falls. Mont, Of a marvel
Gus record of sheep shearing with ma
chimes. This record was made with an
Allen sheep shearing machine operated
by Edward Ashton (Bud Ashton in j.
-. Long q Co.'S plant at the above
point The record Mr.. Ashton made
was 1903 sheep Ia one day June q, and
this beats the worlds record for sheep
shearing with machinery as far as we
know. The highest previous record was
made In June, 1897, 40 Sunnyside. Mon
tana. by r. NJ Marquis with a Wolseley
machine and was 215 Mr. Ashton Is
an old-time shearer and has previously
operated Wolseley machines His ex-
peuence with the Allen is limited, and
this point speaks wei for both machine
and man.-Wool Markets and Sheep.
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