Arizona republican., 1906-02-23

smell them, twist them, measure their 1 length and finally the fineness of the fiber. They can find more things the l matter with wool than most growers I ever heard of. Most wool growers be- lieve many of the complaints to be im-
 aginary and claim that each new sea | son brings forth some new germ that ! makes the wool less valuable. It is | the wool buyer who can tell you at
 glance whether there is in the fleece,
 shive, beggar lice, big QUITS, little
 burrs, cookie burrs or white burrs.
 They can tell at a glace if the wool is
 full of grease and nearly to a pound
 what the dirt in a fleece will weigh.
 Then too, they know when there is
 spiral burr in the fleece and if there
 is, woe to the wool seller and the own
 CT of the clip.
 The spiral burr is not common in l Arizona wool but; is generally found in | California. When il IS found it is nec- ! essary to carbonize the wool after it ! nas been secured and then after car bonizing, it has to be neutralized. All | that costs money, something like three 1 cents a pound and the wool grower has | to pay for it for the wool buyers have 1 to deliver the wool they buy to the ! manufacturers in perfect shape with all defects removed. The great point
 with the wool buyer. however, $ to judge the shrinkage apt to result when ! the raw product is secured, and the | length and the toughness of the fiber.
 They have to watch the grade, the | general character, the color, the lus- 1 Ire being considered.
 Once away from the shearing camps and not talking business, the
 wool buyer is not a bad sort. He l brings money into the town, and what ! is more believes in spending it. He | lives well and believes in all his | friends enjoying the best. Tn February 1 of each year the buyers start out. the great per cent of them from Boston. ! Arizona is the first place they visit. Then follow in the order named, Cal { ifornia, southern Utah, and northern ! Utah, southern Texas Oregon, New
 Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and l Dakota. Of the buyers in Phoenix | five are representing Boston firms: A. | Vandervort, Brown and Adams; s. H. 1 Sinsheimer Kashland and company; | William MarstOn, Hallowen, Donald and company; Larry c. Holden, Davey l Gould and company and Wm. Sud dards, Jeremiah Williams and com pany Ci-her buyers are E. J. Burke for H. c. Judd and Root of Hartford ! Conn.,; F. J. Primrose. a broker of Philadelphia, Isaac Denby, a broker of New York, Frank w. Eshleman, i representing Justice Bateman com pany of Philadelphia, and James Will kinson of the Albuquerque Wool Securing company of Albuquerque
 Seven different owners have been at the Beardsley camp so far this season. C. c. Hutchinson's bands amounted to 1O,O23 hoofs. Campbell and Fragcis
 
 Harry Gray, 2,4O5; C. A. Clark, 2404; Colin Campbell, S,616; and William
 Mcintyre, 5000. All of the sneep so
 far shorn are the ewes and the weth- CTS are yet to come. The ewes are
 shorn first in order that they may be
 started back towards the foot hills and lamb. And they are on their way into the foot hills some of them a very few hours after their fleece has been clipped off their backs.
 It seems that all things this season more than others conspired to make the year a big one for the sheep men. Wool crops in other parts Of the world have been light for several years past and much woo! that had been held in eastern warehouses has been sold to the manufacturers and is now in cloth. But the real reason why Ari- zona wool is usually sold at a high price is the date each year it is ready for market. That which is clipped at Beardsley today will two weeks from today be in Boston. It is there used by wool merchants as a "feeler' of what the market will really stand Of ten it is the case that the wool bought at 22 cents in Arizona or even 20 cents is sold at a less figure in the east but the market is tested and the buyers have a knowledge of what they can af- ford to pay for clips in other parts of the country.
 very large per cent of the wool shipped from the valley this year has been hauled by the Santa Fe Although the location of the shearing pens is | advantageous to that road the pleas ing personality of MT. A. C. Mcqueen, | who is watching the shipments for the Santa Fe, has had no little bit to do in the result being as it has been. He 1 had much to do with securing the shearing plant for Beardsley.
 Arizona wool is early this year and 1 the first lot of it to reach Boston sold i for price that justified it's purchase l