Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-17
OMAHA MARKET AIDS GROWERS
Chance TO store Wool Boosts Prices
Three to Five Cents n
Pound,

CHEYENNE, wyo., Aug 16-(Special)-
Wyoming flockmasters are in better spir-
It's now than they were a month ago, for
wool has advanced steadily and those who
were wise enough to consign, store or hold
for later market are now enjoying the
benefits of the advance. And there are
many growers who feel that the top has
not yet been reached. and are holding for
a still further advance. and from present
indications, their hopes will be realized
During the last few weeks, many Wyoming
clips have been sold at from Is to 1875
cents. and one clip went for II cents.
These same wools last year brought from
10 to G5h cents. showing that the growers
of these woods have obtained within and
cents OF last years prices, and this is
not ALL for this years wool is much
heavier than last seasons clips, and in
many instances the flockmasters, owing to
the increased weight, have obtained fully
as much per head for their wool as they
received last year.
Among the many fortunate flockmasters
may be mentioned f. A. Hadsell of Raw
Inns, whose clip amounted in round num-
bers to u20OO pounds, He received Is
cents for this wool at Rawlins. The Had
sell wool was much heavier this year than
last, the fleeces averaging something like
nine and quarter pounds, and as Mr.
Hadsell obtained within a few cents as
much per pound, the increased weight
brings the net return from his wool clip
up to practically the same figures as he
received last year.
Only those sheepmen who were led astray
by the willy talks of the buyers early in
the season, have cause to complain. Many
of these growers obtained not more than
II and IL cents for their wool. whereas o
year ago they received as high as 10 and
% cents for the same wool, and as a rule,
all woods that were bought early in the
season at the ridiculously low offerings of
the buyers, were Of light shrink, so that
the growers cannot make up in weight
for the difference in price.
And in this improved condition OF the
wool market the wool storage movement
has been a potent factor Indeed, the
growers are becoming more convinced daily
that but for the storage movement, coupled
with the increased consignment business,
prices would now be lowering around 12
and 13 cents. The warehouse established
at Omaha, as a result of the efforts of the
officers of the Wyoming Wool Growers
association, and especially through the work
of President j. A. Delfelder. had a great
deal to do with the advanced prices. for
there several instances where growers
had even loaded their wool on the cars
and were ready to bill out to the Omaha
storage when the buyers on the ground in
creased their offerings several cents per
pound and secured the wool. And II there
had been no place to which these growers
haU hat In
the field would have obtained it practically
at his own figures. So 1t is then that the
Omaha warehouse. even though IL was
small lin capacity and was established late
in the season, proved of vast benefit to the
growers, whether they shipped to 1t or not.
It. offered to the grower the avenue of
escape" this season and enlightened him to
the Possibilities Of the future.
This storage movement had its inception
in the minds of the officers of the wyo-
ming Wool Growers association, who have
ever been alert to the interests, not only
of the members of this splendid organiza-
tion and the sheepmen generally of wyo-
ming, but to the wool growers of adjoin-
ing states. At first it's officers received
little or no encouragement and some Of the
largest growers said that the movement
would be failure, for the sheepmen would
not store their wool In the warehouse, and
1t was only after much hard work that
several million pounds OF wool were secured
for the Omaha concern. Like all move
ments, II had to have a small beginning.
However, the success attending this year
assures the continued success OF the wyo-
ming movement and also the success OF
the national movement, which is now in
charge OF the executive committee OF the
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Will meet In Salt Lake City August % to
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