Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-05-31

wool buyers from the east TO get
down to business. They have de-
cided to make a move which has
been under contemplation for some
time, rather than to accept the 10
to IS cents pouni which the
buyers have offered. They want
the market price. They are not
willing to give the middlemen the
big end of the profits.
Saturday evening a number of
woolgrowers hurriedly called a
meeting at the Idanha hotel to talk
over the situation. 1t was decided
that inasm lch a; the wool buyers
now here had formed a combination
to hold down the price OF wool,
arrangements would be ma lie by the
growers to ship their wool east.
Every grower present approved the
idea and President Fred Gooding, of
the Wool Growers association, was
called up by long distance telephone.
He stated he was in perfect SYM
pathy with the move and that to
perfect plans and make the prorosi-
ton general one in Idaho he
would call special meeting of the
association for 10 O'Clock in the
morning, June 4, in Boise. At this
meeting complete plans will be for
mualted for consigning the wool.
Among the representative WOOL
growers present at the meeting that
evening were Governor Gooding, j.
E. Clinton, Jr., Edward Paine, DIR.
H. S. Belts, Frank Manville, Scott
Anderson, ]. c. Pence and others.
Speaking Of the situation one of the
growers said:
"This dealing with commission
men is all wrong anyway. The
growers have many times discussed
the ACCESSIBILITY of cutting them out
of our calculations and think this
crisis is good thing for us in a
way. At the meeting June a, we
will make arrangements for ship
ping our product east and that is
the policy which will probably be
adopted next year and the years fol-
lowing.
''The matter was brought up at
the meeting in Denver last winter
but no action was taken on it.
These middlemen appear to want
the earth. They will not be salts
fled with fair commissions. Their
talk of the inferiority of wool this
season is all fol-de-rol. The clips
are unusually clean this season
and of good quality. The wool is
light and the product long.
That the Idaho woolgrowers are
justified in asking the prices foi
which they are holding their wool:
is shown by some very interesting
figures that have been furnished /;
reporter for The Statesman by on,
of the most prominent growers il
the state. Believing they are
justified in this, the growers stat,
they do not intend permitting buyer
or middlemen, whom the grower
believe have formed a combine t,
hold the price of wool down, to rcal
more than a legitimate commission
off their product.
Probably they will not permi
them to handle their wcos at all
since it has been announced tina
meeting of the Idaho Woolgrow
crs' association will be held il
BOISE on the morning of June TO
the purpose of making arrangement
for the members of the association
to ship their wool directly cas-
themselves.
Wool is purchased in the east
ern markets." stated the woo
grower mentioned, cat what /
called secured value. The averag
Idaho wool shrinks 65 per cent
The present secured value of tn
average Idaho wool, according I
the latest Boston market quotation:
is - cents pound or a Bosto
grease value of $50 cents
pound.
THE freight rate to Boston
2.123 cents, which includes all co
OF handling the wool and profit
which make total of 3. 373cent
Deducting that amount from Il
Boston grease value of $50 cen
and you have left 21.813 cent
which is the present net value
the average Idaho wool at Ida
points.
When we know that the figur
are practically right why should I
Idaho woolgrowers consider the
and 18 cents that the buyers wa
to pay for Idaho woods. The actr
expense of selling wool in Boston
not to exceed 90 cents per
pounds. If the growers establi
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