The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-15
WOOL TRAFFIC
TO BE DIVIDED
All Roads Will Have Chance at
This Business.
BASIS SAME AS LAST YEAR
MOVEMENT WILL BE THE
GREATEST ON RECORD.

Il leas' 33,uDOg00 pounds OF wool VIII
/ 4 be shipped out Of Utah and Idaho
this season-the bigget movement
since tho wool industry started in these
states Railroads doing business in the
two states win all get a chance at this
! trafie- Despite rum0rs TO the contrary.
/ The business viii be divided among the
/ different roads on practically the same
/ basis ds last year.
( This means that each road win get
! what il can. but that a limit will be
! placed on the amount the Rio Grsnde
/ is 10 receive from Oregon Short Line
Z points 1T IS understood that the Rio
/ tFrande and connections are to be al
( lowed so per cent Of the freight origin
/ ating on Short Line points south of
I Ogden and % per cent Of the traffic
I originating on points north OF Ogden.
For some time the Rio Grande men
and the agents OF connecting lines have
I been on the anxious seat regarding the
division Of the traffic. Tt was feared
that the Short Line might decide not
to give a pound OF wool originating on
its road To any line except the Union
Pacific Yesterday the rumOr was cir
culated t9at the Short Line mad actual
ly issued such an ultir7atum.
Rio Grande's Share.
This story proved to be incorrect. It
was authoritadvely stated that no such
move had been made or would be made
AS a result the 10 Grande and its
connections 1sili nave the same chance
this year th9t they have had before.
Despite the magnitude of this move
rent, ana the fact that il means much
10 the railroads from a revenue stand
point the rates are said to be firm so
far, with a GOOD chance that they viii
remain so.
President John Mcmillan and Secre-
taTy Monte b. Gwinn Of the Idaho
Wool Growers association. both of
Boise, were IN the city yesterday on
business Both asked to have denied
the report that their visit had any
thing TO do with freight rates
The Idaho WOOL clip this year will
reach at least 20,000,000 pounds" said
AIR. Mcmillan. 1T may go as high as
p 100000 pounds when the returns are
all i'm. There are more sheep in the
state than s.er before, and the loss
through the winter has been slight.
One man with 1900 sheep lost only
seventy head last winter. and most of
them he killed for mutton. This means
a tremendous clip. and the wool is Of
good QNdltt-
Utah's Big Clip.
The Utah estimate is 15.0O000O
pounds. making a total Of at least 3d.
600 900 pounds for the two states. SO
far. thirty cars of wool have been
moved. idaho has sent out twenty cars.
o. which sixteen represented purchases
by n Eisemann of Eisemann Bros.
Boston. Shearing is now in progress
at Boise Mountain Home, Bliss, Sho-
shOne and Kimama. the heaviest clips
being at Bliss and ShOshOne. There is
no activity at present west OF Nampa.
In Utah shearing is in progress at
MfIford. BLACK Rock. Juab. Fairfield,
Nephi Ilehi Iron Spur TOOele, Price,
Grantsville. Thompson's and near Fort
Duchesne bridge, 100 miles cast of
Price The wool from the last-named
placed viii be shipped from Cotton. 1t
was 'epOrted yesterday that ten cars
reDUesented the shipments to date. five
of these having gone from central and
eastern Utah and five from Milford
and Black Rock.