The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-05
BY Il. L. CRANE.

Way back in Pennsylvania, where
come from" said the tenderfoot, they
always give the sheep a good, thorough
bath before they remove its fleece.
should think the men would get their
hands fearfully dirty, don't you know,
handling that soiled wool"
1t was just after the strengthening
season opened i'm Utah last week, and
the young eaSterner had Joined party
composed of a wool buyer. a railroad
/ freight contractor and a Herald report
err who had gone to LOfgTeen, on the
salt Lake Route. to watch the initial
operations. A sheep owner standing
near the pen heard the remark, and
spoke up:
Life is shorter i'm Utah than it is i'm
the White Deer mountains, young man.
Dirty wool weighs the most. you know.
and then out here we dip our sheep &C
cordiug to the government regulations.
The prescribed baths by Uncle Sam are
about as far as we can afford 10 go
with the sheep. BY the way. young fell
low. are the lambs in Pennsylvania
born with fun sets of upper teeth?',
Really. YOU know answered the
youth ! couldn't answer that ques-
ton. I didn't have very much TO DO
personally with the sheep, YOU see.
"Ch. huh, well. out here the lambs
never have any upper teeth when they
are born. Seq" And the sheepmau
caught up a 10-day-old lamb and pTied
open its mouth. Not an upper tooth
IN sight. The tenderfoot was duly i'm
pressed. and made a note i'm a little
black leather book he carried i'm his vest
pocket. He said he was trying to get
all the information he could while in
the west, and made note Of every
thing unusual that came to his atten-
ton.
Lesson in Branding
Several hundred sheep were fin the
annex corral. all recently sheared. when
the party arrived, and several minutes
were spent watching the tenders brand
ing them with green paint. This was
done quickly before the sheep were
again let out on the range. The ten
deTfOOt was very much interested. and
asked many questions.
DO they all use green paint?' he
asked.
"Oh. no. was the reply. Some of US
use black. some brown. some red, each
has his own color"
This Information the young man
didn't put down in his book, but he ev-
identity had il well located i'm his head.
the corral where the shearing pens
were divided off into long rows, two
shearers to a pen. the party next went
TO watch the work OF denuding the
sheen Of their fleeces The first stop
was made at a pen where dark COM
plexioned. large-muscled man was
sheariug the ANIMALS by hand at the
rate. he said. Of ninety per day. About
2 dozen sheep. newly sheaTed, We're in
his pen. and every animal was spotted
with blood where the shears had nipped
of pieces Of flesh along with the wool
Did YOU just get through branding
those animals" asked the lad from
Pennsylvania. respectfully. The dark
man looked up from his work with a
fierce sCowL
cut OUT yer kiddin'." he replied.
Why, aren't you branding the
Sheep" returned the Tenderf~0t. Won
derinGly.
Nav" replied the she. ~ d at
work. I'm just shaving off their wrin-
kles SOS it won't be SO hard to shear
'em next year"
When the tenderfoot discovered that
few of the sheep left the sheater's hands
without having contributed q few
square inches of flesh along with the
wool, ne lost interest in the work and
went DAA-ilf 10 watch q NELtt liiuIA III
spect for scabies. The hard-heartcd
railroad man. the reporter and the wool
buyer stayed with the game inside and
picked up some Information.
The Lofgreen Corral.
The JDfSTec1 corral began shcarins
last Monday in charge Of +. 7. Egil-
son. There are sixty shearers at work.
and. judging from the bands listed for
this corral, there viii have been
sheared here in the twenty-five to thir-
~ davs that the corral is open close 20
10 COO sheep. The shearers here, as in
other corrals in the state, work by the
head cents per heece-and the aver
age per man is about seventy-five
sheep per day although a number Of
shearers there are clipping IN the
neighborhood of ninety to 10 sheep
each day. This corral is run By the