East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-11
SOME FACTS ON THE
WOOL QUESTION


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of the largest buyers OF Montana
WOOL We see that this wool buyer is
using the result OF the Oregon sale
to convince the Montana flock mas
tiers, just before the season opens
there, that their wool will not bring
anything. The statement follows:
"I think the prices in Montana will
range this season from 10 to 10
cents. There was recently sold in
Oregon approximately 100000
pounds OF long staple wool, the kind
produced I'm Montana and 1t fetched
from to 1S1s cents. was told that
Joe King, the junior partner of Dew
ey Gould & Co, has purchased the
Hsnylo wool clip of 100000 pounds at
1S cents at Billings" L
Buyers We're Bears.
There can be no doubt but that
the wool buyers early in the season
tried to hammer down the price OF
wool, and had 1t not been for the eff
fective combination of the wool grow
ers OF Montana, Wyoming and Utah
they would have succeeded.
The Montana growers refused to
sell at low prices. The Wyoming and
Utah growers also refused. and imme-
diately established an immense ware
house at Omaha. and when the wool
buyer saw he could not obtain their
fleeces without paying a fair price,
the price at once advanced from to
5 cents per pound.
In support of this we submit the
following statement from the Wyom-
ing Wool Growers associations:
1.-THE state and national associations
Of wool growers advised the growers
10 nOlu thelT Wool anu uOl dCCSpl
the offers of the buyers, and almost
without exception this advice was
needed. The result was the buyers
could not obtain wool at their own
prices and were compelled to raise
their offers to get wool"
We also submit the following, pub
lished by the Montana Wool Growers
association:
Same Tactics in Montana
"When the large buyers invaded
this market and published broadcast
in the papers of the state the mis-
leading information that Montana
wool would only bring 10 to Is cents
per pound, we Immediately sought I'd
combat the impression sought by the
wool buyers of cheap wool and so adj
vised the sheepmen of the state
through these columns and by means
of this paper urged every
wool growers of the state to be very
careful of the very misleading infor-
nation sought to be scattered through
the state by representatives of the
wool buyers, and the results have
been made manifest.
"The very buyers who made the
statement that our wool would bring
but 10 to Is cents, Immediately offer
ed up to 16 cents, and the price has
been forced to over Is cents, and in al
least one instance we know of as
high as 10 cents being paid.
while we do not hold that this
association forced the prices up, we
flatter ourselves that the information
given TO the wool growers of the state
through this association caused the
great mass of the producers to hold
off and thereby force the buyers to
materially advance their prices"
Inconsistency.
While declaring in the main part
of his interview that the oregon
: sheepmen received all their wool was
( worth, the Tribune informant admits
, in the following language one conten-
tlon of the East Oregonian, namely
: that the sales were held too early;
"The fact is the sales here on the 2Sth
Of May were too early, since there
was no established market at that
time"
Regardless Of the assertion of the
Tribune wool grower we are satisfied
that 80 per cent of the wool growers
Of this county believe they did no
receive within 4 cents Of the market
price of their wool. And If this Ore.
gon flockmaster would look up tht
4 facts he would know Oregon WOOL
are always worth within to 2h cent
as much as Montana woods.
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