The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-06
WOOL GROWERS
HOLD SESSION
Good Attendance at Association S
Annual Meeting.
ENDORSE WAREHOUSE PLAN
SUPERINTENDENT BUCHER CON-
GRADUATES MEMBERS.
ENDORSE WAREHOUSE PLAN

The Utah Wool Growers association
met in annual session yesterday nfter-
noon at the city council chamber and
transacted much business of import
ance TO the sheep industry. The at
tendance was quite large and repre-
sentative of all parts of the state. EN-
cept the associate members of the eX-
ecutive committee, all of the of1cers
were reelected without opposition
In his address President Jesse IL
Smith spoke of the good results to the
wool growers of the state accomplished
by the association since the last annual
meeting. He mentioned the fact that
the members Of the association took an
active part in the National Livestock
associations convention in this city last
January. and had helped materially to
make the meeting a success The pres
ident urged the members who are de-
liquent in paying their dues to place
themselves in standing and thereby re-
plenish the treasury SO that the means
to maintain the legal rights Of the wool
growers may not be lacking.
Major Bucher Speaks.
Major George f. Butcher. superintend-
ent of the Uintah forest reserve, re
sponded to an invitation to make Few
remarks. He said that if it had not
been for the ovcellent organization of
the Titan w, 49,. overs association it
would have been impossible to have put
up the splendid fight last summer
against the closing OF the reserve TO
grazing, but through the efforts OF this
associations executive officers the
threatened order had been rescinded
by the interior department. The major
complimented the association on the
faithful observance of the regulations
in the Uintah timber lands by the sheep
grazers, and because of this there had
been but few complaints and no fires
worth mentioning. He believed that
the government would consent TO the
continuance Of the grazing arrange
'nents next year in the reserve. but to
him the problem was how to permit
100000 head of sheep to be grazed when
there was room for only two-thirds
that many.
a vote Of thanks was rendered Major
Butcher for the impartial discharge Of
his duty as superintendent of the for
est reseT C.
Eastern Warehouse Scheme.
Wesley Paul of Boston. agent for the
American sheep Industry association,
was accorded the privilege of the floor
to explain the schente Of making the
Utah wool growers shareholders in the
mutual association which has for its
object the maintaining of warehouses
N the eastern markets for the sale of
WOOL without contracting with COM
mission agents and other middlemen,
whose profits are very large. The plan
struck the members as being worthy Of
favorable consideration as n step to-
| ward preventing unstable rates and
discrimination. Mr.. Paul's scheme was
! endorsed by the association and sew
raj Of the members subscribed to stock
| n the association. which viii make the
wooimen the sellers of their own prod
uct and retain what is usually paid out
| IN commission to middlemen.
The reports OF Treasurer Pickard and
Secretary Callister, as approved by the
executive committee, showed in detail
that the revenues for the year amount
d TO St.OoS.S1. including a balance on
hand of SS13-21. and disbursements
mounting to $3.949.21, leaving in the
| treasury $109.66. The larger part of the
disbursements was for legal expenses.
The delinquent list showed that about
So,ooO Is due from members. who pay
at the rate of s. yearly on each 1000
head OF sheep owned by them.
Presldent Smith begged 20 he relieved
Il the duties of the Office, claiming that