The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-22
WAR OF WOOL
IS STILL RAGING
Buyers Assert They Have
Rounded Up the Clip
of Juab County.
OTHER ELEMENTS APPEAR
QUESTIONS OF WINTER SHEDS
AND RANGE RENTAL REVIVED.

Secretary c. B. Stewart SAYS Utah wool
growers have other opponents TO contend
with than the wool buyers. who are al
legged to be banded together 10 keep down
<prices. The Humane society and the
eastern sheepmen. he said yesterday. have
also entered the field 10 make life I'M
pleasant for the western men. 1t is
asserted that the Humane society is de
termined to compel the western sheepmen
10 build winter sheds for their sheep and
the eastern growers are busy with plans
10 make their western rivals pay for the
public range they use In pasturing their
herds
1t is still nip and tuck between the wool
buyers and the members of the Wool
growers association as to which side is
10 gain control of this years clip. Yes
terday the ranks of the buyers gained an
important recruit in W. l.. Mckella, who
represents Iseman & Co. Of Boston.
The wool buyers assert that they are
masters OF the situation at Jericho. where
10000 pounds of this years wool are
stored They declare that the Juab cOun-
" clip Is now being loaded into cars for
consignment TO eastern commission
houses.
Four Cars for Storage.
At the Woolgrowers' headquarters in the
Scott building yesterday Secretary c. b.
Stewart said that he had heard nothing
OF the loading of Juab county wool for
consignment and. not being in possession
of the facts, was not in a position 10
state what was being done there.
He added that everything continued to
Eok promising for the united movement
Four cars were shipped yesterday from
Modena for storage, he said, and other
cars will be leaving Utah every day from
now on.
Some of the large woOlgrowers OF the
state have hit upon a novel plan of han
ding their clip. They have agreed to
L,fe a.. ct. in
the united movement, with the under
standing that the remaining half may be
consigned 10 commission houses. II is
said that this plan viii add many hun
dreds of thousands of pounds of wool TO
the storage movement.
Movement In Its Beginning.
while we began a little late this year. :"
said Secretary Stewart yesterday, the
advantage OF united action for better
prices has been thoroughly demonstrated.
Next year We will be better than ever
able TO cope with any element which I'M
%Our movement is only in its beginning.
In the future, the buyers will not have
10 deal with scattered and disoTganized
wooigrowers, but a united organization,
determined TO have fair prices fer an i'm
pOrtant Utah product"
The WOOlgrOWers are somewhat worked
up over the agitation against free range
for the sheep and the reported efforts o.
ern sheepmen to build winter shelter for
their herds.
These subjects were referred to in a
letter received by Mr.. Stewart from
George s. Walker. secretary of the Ma
tional Woolgrowers' association. Dis
cussing Mr.. Walkers letter and the fight
against the western sheepmen. Mr..
Stewart said.
In the east they do not understand
western conditions. An eastern sheep
man pastures his herd upon high-priced
- land and has sheds for them in the win
ter.
Experiments With Sheds.
''As his pastures cost him considerable
money he does not understand why west
ern sheepmen should have use of the
government range. which is as much the
property of the eastern man as il is ours.
Rie fails TO realize that we herd our
f1eep upon the western deserts, where il
takes from one to five acres TO. winter
one sheep.
AS TO the matter OF building winter
sheds. the Humane society is unnecessaT-
fly worried. / have seen experiments with
sheds at the head of the Provo river in
Summit and Wasatch counties. and have