Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-04-10
WOOL CLIP WILL bE HEAVY THIS
 YEAR
Prices Continue , To Cents Lower Than
 Last Season
(rrom Yaturdsy's Daily.)

In addition to tho heavy wool clip ,bippcd from shearing stations in Mar. icopa county, believe the Cordcs clip will amount to at least 100000 pounds" said II. F. Campbell, one of Inc largest wool growers of the Terri. tory, to Journal. Miner representative, ycsicrday.
 "Bctwccn 35,00O and 10000 head of .hccp will bc shcarcd thcrc," he said, "and the clip will command about tho .amc price as that sold in the Salt River valley, which, on the average, went at 17 cents, from to 3 cents low. cr than last year."
 Asked as to the reason for the pre-. ,ailing low price, he said:
 Boston markets control the price of wool in this country. do not know The real reason of the lower price of Inc wool crop this year, as the London markets arc as strong as ever. lt IS probable that the wool dealers and spec. ula,ors of the cast are compelled to pay d higher ratc of interest this year on inc money they borrow than formerly, un account of the fact that the money market is a little tight at present. Some advance the theory that there is n combine among the wool buyers, but this is strongly denied by the latter. [" Speaking of conditions generally, Mir. campbell said:
 "Tbe clip from the native Arizona .hccp will average pounds, but that of the sheep imported from New Mex lco will not be as high. which will re. ducc the general average of the Terri. tory.
 Mutton prices are about the same as in 1906, and l believe that the mar. kct demand will be equally as brisk. The lamb crop is not as good as last year, on account of the heavy storms that came at lambing time, doing con siderable damage to the increase and rcducing the per cent materially.
 Permits for grazing on the San Francisco and Black Mesa reserves cost : cents head for the six months com. mcncing in May and ending November I. All sheep are dipped under the Supcrvision of government inspector before being admitted on the reserves and law passed by the last Lcgisla lure also makes dipping compulsory Grazing for cattle on the reserves costs 25 cents n head for six months and 2; cents n year.
 "During the past two years man, Salt River valley farmers have beer experimenting with sheep on their al falfa pastures in successful way, an' about ten of them are now in the busi ness in a large way. They claim tha sheep can be grazcd on the alfalf fields as cheap as on the range, tha the sheep grow larger and fatter, rais larger lambs, and that the wool is no damaged by coming in contact wit brush and thorncy shrubbery. l am the opinion that the sheep can be care for better and at much less expense the alfalfa fields. and l believe, if tn Roocsvelt dam Is a success, that in les ihan ten years there will be owe 100000 head of sheep grazed annual on tho Salt River valley alfalfa field Arizona sheep compare very favorab' with any in the country, and the shee raised on the alfalfa fields will be tn means of raising the standard of th Territory, inasmuch as they will much larger than the range sheep an the wool much cleaner.
 "Feed is good on the ranges wat is plentiful, the flocks are all hcoith and outside of the losses in the iambii season by the heavy storms, the shee man has no kick coming" he co cluded.