Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-24
r,Ieoates to Wool Growers Meet
IND Differ In Their Opinions
As to Methods.
CITIES ASK CONSIDERATION
omaha and Chicago Each Repre-
sented by Delegations Offer
ina Storage Depot Sites.
.,,cning Session of Important Confer
ence VIII BE Held In Federal Court
Room Tomorrow Morning.

determined to save the profits of
growing western wool that now large
" fall into the hands of shrewd mid
die men, the executive committee OF
.he National Wool Growers associa-
ton will hold the first of a series OF
Salt Lake meetings tomorrow morn
ing.
salt Lake was chosen for the meet
ing place because of the success of the
Utah storage plan. All members of
the National Woolgrowers' association
will be made welcome to the meetings
They Will be executive in character.
The press win be excluded, and an eff
fort will be made in the two days 1t
is thought they will continue to de-
yelop a national storage or auction
plan
If successful the meeting will be OF
the greatest historic interest. and will
be the most important ever held by
western sheepmen. However, it is
ralized by all that the matter under
discussion is the largest ever under
taken In a single industry and that
there are a great many difficulties to
overcome before any one plan can be
conferred upon.
That there are differences of opinion
rs to the best way of accomplishing
the elimination of the expensive middle
man is clearly evident today. From
interviews with the various delegations
who are in town from Wyoming Mon
tana. Idaho and Oregon it is evident
that there is no unison of plan.
nFfNnh IN oh,
wants to be designated the storage
center II the storage plan is adopted.
Many delegates favor an auction plan,
and scout the Idea of storage except as
taken up individually by shippers.
From Omaha and Chicago delegations
have arrived each wishing to put for
ward the claims of its respective city
telling just why IL is the right CITY
PRESIDENT Z. E. Gooding of Goodiug
lda., OF the National Wool Growers as
| soclation, said at noon today, concern-
Ing the claims of these rival cities:
our meetings win be executive in
character. and we will invite In the
delegations from these cities. / have
met some of their members, and they
are entitled to every courtesy which
We can assure you we shall extend to
them. They will not be allowed to at
tend all the sessions, however, but each
In its turn will be invited In TO make
sessions that l favor any one locality
over the Others If a warehouse move
ment is what the delegates desire"
AUCTION SALE PLAN.
The selling of each years wool crop
Is big thing. 1t keeps the railroads
busy for July and August sending 100,-
100000 pounds of wool to the eastern
eenters. Lately 1t has kept a group OF
buyers busy taking in the wool al the
lowest figures they could force upon the
sheepmen. Now it promises to make
the sheep men their own statesmen. and
what they want is to get into touch at
big consumers of all kinds.
II 0on't think much of storage
plan" said n. b. Sleeper of Meeteetse,
Wyu,, who controls on annual clip of
5000 pounds. What | want to see IN
America is an annual wool auction sale
Of say 100 100000 or $50 600 pounds. l
want 60 see from the west an orSanlza-
ton formed that can place this much
wool In one place at one time. and let
4 the Zig consumers send their repre-
sentatives there to examine 1t, and offer
scaled bids"
4 When asked for what experience he
had had with this plan, Mr., Sleeper
said; Personally / don't need an as
ISOLATION to impress me with the value
H OF storing my wool ! have already
H stored It, Buyers have n nice way of
surrounding a man with good fellow
snip telling him how bad IT Is his
Aheep got into that patch of sage
| Drnsh last fall, and how much better
MS wool would be II there had been
more water and less snow in the
winter. Well / have learned that there
Is nothing In that line of talk, and 1t
was merely made TO talk down the
Duylng price, Some OF these same fell
lows who talked To me that way In
Meeteetse and tried TO interest me in
y 10 ana IL cent offers. jumped In
with l6 cent bids, and better, as soon
AS my wool was over TO the Billings
auction sale.
AT Billings, $50 miles from
/ AMeeteetse we have had AN auction
Tor several years. II has always made
me -FOUR cents or more To send my wool
TO the gathering. There the buyers
would look it over sort out a few
sdnples, and submit bids, the grower
nelng at liberty to reject all or take
The highest"
THE LONDON PLAN,
That's Just what l want To see on a
very large scale, They do It In Lon
upl, ana that method controls the Eng
ish market. The United States, you
KNOW, uses 6OO,C00000 pounds of wool
PEI annum and raises only 100000 900,
AT Billings we We're able to COM
H,and the attention OF ~ m 10 buyers.
WIN 100000 pounds of wool ON DIS
pay, we could command the attention
Of 800 or 400 buyers and thoy would
represent tho big factories. each anal
oEi TO get the best staple in the hnes
condition.
FAVORS CHICAGO.
me matter of place TO hold N,
annual auction sale MIR Sleeper saSi
ng mas given some attention. II favor
,leaso,' he said, because It is q
haoe whore much wool must stop. and
sa'es made there can easily be forward
u on their way TO Boston, New YORK
W ~, Louis, From any other poin
Nn'h Is not true To 80 large degree
,% The packers are there aud theS
n ",l Dc glad to hold their wool For sucl
em auction sale. THIS win bring tn,
1..o,0unt Of wool we could control up 4,
as,vVV0oOO pounds | am sure" with
c mem figure we could control 100,
WeQO0 pounds"
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