Arizona republican., 1906-02-23
BEARDSLEY BUSY
 WITH THE SNEAKERS
Scenes About Great Camp Where
 5heep are Shingled.

The best price ever bid for nine
 months old Arizona wool was offered | Tuesday at Beardsley to Colin Camp | bell by MT. Marsden, the buyer for Hallowell Donald and company of Boston, the bid being p cents and which bid MT. Campbell accepted. In all, his clip amounted to 5O,00O pounds The lowest bid was 2O7s cents. A second sale was that of the clip from the lambs belonging to William Me Intyre. which was bought by Holder and Burke. Their bid which was ac- cepted was 215s cents and the clip 1 amounted to 7S.000 pounds.
 This wool as was also the Colin Campbell wool. was clipped at Boards ley where there is in operation one of
 sheep shearing plants in the country
 prominent wool buyer, who has spent
 many years visiting various sheep shearing camps of the west.
 The plant is one of thirty shear ca
 pacity and is operated by a nine horse
 power gasoline engine. Thirty shear
 CTS. working eight hours, are able to clip in the neighborhood of f. 800 sheep
 and they havel been busy since the
 Eth of January and will likely be un-
 til the 18th of March. Not all of this
 time have the thirty clippers been at
 work. some days the force employed
 being less. But the clippers, although
 an essential part of the force are by
 no means the whole of the organiza-
 tion. There is the man who, by the
 use of twine. ties each fleece in a
 bundle; the car boy who gathers the fleeces; the machinist who runs the
 engine and sharpens the shears, and
 the bag filler and sack sewer. Be-
 sides all these there are numerous cor
 rall men whose duties are the keep
 ing of the pens full of unshorn sheep and running those from which the fleece mas been clipped into a corrall arranged for them They too. are the
 bOOkkeepers for the shearers and each time a pen is emptied they mark up on the tab kept for that purpose the num-
 Der of sheep he has sneared. At night these tabs are gathered and taken to the store where the camp brookkeeper allows him a credit of several cents for each fleece. Some of the men make as high as $14 a day, while oth- CTS make half that sum. The latter class, however, are just learning the trade, an average of 125 sheep being a fair days work.
 When the men work they must also be fed and their food must be of that quality that is most nourishing. Those in charge of the camp at Beardsley have not overlooked this fact. The kitchen and dining rooms occupy tent. The kitchen is equipped with all modern cOnveniences and the chef who presides over it all, for some months occupied a similar position with one of the most popular restau-
 rrNE-
 meal served that green vegetables, two or three different kinds of meats, two or three fruits and delicious dishes of dessert are not served as part of the menu. At dinner the meal commences with a soup and closes with dessert the same as the more pretentious eat ing establishment.
 The dining room and kitchen are un- der the general supervision of J. J. Franklin, who also is the manager of a store operated in the camp at which anything imaginable can be bought from a needle to ton of barley. But other than the great size of the stock for such camp that which most i'm presses the visitor is the cleanliness of all the buildings in charge of the com missary. There is also one additional striking feature of the camp. There is ! no liquor to be obtained. Naturally, where there is such a gathering of men, rough in their manners, it would follow that there would be much buu Beardsley is dry camp. The result on the men and the result to the employer is noticeable in the amount of work accomplished.
 But a sheep shearing camp is made doubly interesting by the wool buyers. and at present there are ten of them in Phoenix, who each day visit the nearby camps. They are, when at work the most inquisitive lot one ever met with. They lift the different fleeces to determine weight, they pull the different flores of the wool out,