Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-26
CONTROL WESTERN OUTPUT
Growers Representing 100000
600 Pounds Pledge 1t for Big
Market Center Next Year.
aConmittcc to Visit Competing Cities
None Named But Chicago Has
Inside Track.

Afler the most important meeting
,iweStern wool growers ever held, the
executive committee of the National
WOOL Growers association decided this
morning that the present methods of
marketing wool did not have single
defender: thnt u great corporation he
organized with the amount OF stock
each grower may take limited to the
size of his clip, estimated ut one cent
pcr pound, and that II central storage
and market city be designated by a
srcral committee. still to he appoint
cd. which will visit all competing cities
after which il will have power within
itself TO choose the city, form the cor
noration, and make arrangements to
store next years western clip. In the
Standing vote, which was unanimous
there were represented 13,OO0,Ooo
mounds of wool personally owned. and
examinations controlling 100,OO0,OO0
rounds. third of the American crop.
That the city OF Chicago, now the
coumtrys chief cattle market is soon
to become the countrys chief wool
market. is almost d certainty of to-
days developments among the Nation
al Wool growers. The clever cam
paignlng of William II Manss has been
far too successful for his competitors,
and this representative of the Chicago
Association of Commerce has done his
work so well that there Is hardly any
doubt as to where the wool center Will
be located,
When this mornings session opened
there was some doubt as to whether
there would be storage or auction
sale movement at all. An Industrial
condition Vt years of growth was to be
overthrown If this convention voted
for u movement, aud yet there was in
The circuit court room of the FEEDER
al building, men able to shift the
market on 150,000000 pounds of wool,
fully half the American output
This situation was better understood
by The Chicago delegation than any
cher. The result was that Mr.. Manss |
this morning submitted written
pledge from Chicago bankers that |
they would lay aside in their vaults |
each year 500, 600 to carry the wool |
men should Chicago be designated the
cc0tral market. Other cities showed |
photographs of their warehouses, and |
had booster" speech made for them
Nh Manss declared that he is no pro-
moter, no booster and that the worst
thing he could think of for Chicago
would be to have smokestack there
that wasn't working. Therefore Chi
,ago didn't want thing that didn't |
come naturally. and didn't want a |
thing she had to force in that. direc- |
lion.
FIFTEEN SECRET REASONS.
u want you sheep men," he said this |
morning, "to get the best market CEN
ter you can find If it isn't Chicago |
then we don't want it-but here are the
reasons why inevitably it is Chicago"
And Mr.. Manss pulled out 10 type
written reasons which he actutely in
formed reporters We're the confidential
property of the Wool Growers and !
could not possibly be turned over to the
press. The pledge of 5000, 900 900 by |
the banks is, however, known to be a
leading feature,
FORM ORGANIZATION.
The biggest individual action in the
history of American wopl growing &C.
CURED this morning at 1l:20 o'clock. |
il fruitful, according to It's anticipa-
ton, It viii mean that wool at ID cents |
per pound, worth sl2,500.Oo0 win next |
season be poured into one central mar
lct, where from 300 to 500 buyers will !
assemble from all the big manufac-
turing centers TO look over the clips, |
pick their favorites, and offer a price
lNat seems to them proper, The I'M
inelse auction sale will do away with |
tie western jouineying buyer and get |
Nie grower up against his market.
The definite movement TO create an |
immense corporation to handle this !
wool problem carried by unanimous
standing vote at 1l;20 o'clock this
morning Each member present pledged |
That he would take stock I'm the COR
pclation at the rate of the value OF |
ms wool crop, estimated at one cent |
per pound.
FOR CENTRAL MARKET.
BY the same standing unanimous vote
lh' members pledged themselves I'm
favor of central wool market. with |
storage facilities, centrally located in |
Ipbafd TO It's access TO the big buyers, !
otu me entire responsibility for organ
i1ihR THIS big corporation, for designat-
i'V INC elty TO be named as the storage
'.'leI' and for going ahead with the
Movement without other Instructions
IIoin a convention. or general commit
zee session, was thrown upon commit
t'' of SIX men, which President Good
aug was authorized to mans.
Al me end of the convention this |
committee was not yet named II was |
n3lr ucted To make iunket trip Of all |
H' cues seeking 10 be wool market
' ''fi W ~ hls'hu. president liOOO- |
lhs stated AT noon that he was waiting
mllil no could secure a pledge from
,ech man appointed that he would do
we work, stay with the committee,
make the trip. and remain in the mar
Afs until all lhe business was FIN
.snel before announcing his appoInt-
tH,nts This he expects 10 do In a
Jew days.
VOTE or THANKS.
:. AFTER taking Tbs written pledge of
nose present to throw their wool into
elo storage movement next year. thc
,ssl9n adjourned AT l2;45 O'clock It's
hpnhs were voted 10 the local wool
AZ VINO arranged he meeting. and
~ tue city for the Inequalities offered
ky press representatives were not
Tanhed for the reason that being ex-
tiuned' they had been thrown upon
own resources "a secure infor-
,PrhSuoh concerning the proceedings,
ky result WAS one or two 'freaky"
in OF newk One such was a morn
w papers report that llr Manss of
1htaBp, had been inVited into Tho