The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-14
Fight Already On,

Already there has deVeloped & bitter
fight between the wool commission men
of Boston, Omaha St. Joe and other
cities against the plan of the national
association to establish Chicago as the
central wool market in the nation.
Enought wool, however, has been
signed up, it is said, to insure the sue
cess Of the plan.
A big delegation OF South Omaha
commission men will attend the Poca-
tellO convention, prepared to urge the
claims of their city as an ideal location.
The fight. of course, will resolve itself
into a question of bidding for the clip
of 1909. If the Boston and st. Louis
and Omaha and Kansas City men can
offer better inducements to the Wool
growers than Chicago, the storage mar
ket plan will fail.
Just what will happen in the matter
of the forest reserves cannot be fore
casted. Idaho sheep men, at a meeting
at Shoshone, conferred amicably with
representatives of the forestry bureau
and reached an agreement in the mat
ter of alloting grazing grounds This
is considered as of first importance in
the northwest toward the establish
ment of peace between the sheep men
and representatives of the forest SER
vice.
national association arrived tonight
from Boise. He is firm in the belief
that the sheep men of the west are
facing a crisis. He says that not on1
is there danger to the industry in a re-
vision Of the tariff, but he believes that
the existing methods of administering
the forest reserves are inimical to tn
interests of the wool growers. In ms
annual address to the convention Pres
ident Gooding will, he says, call atten-
ton to the errors of omission and COM
mission for which Chief ForesteS
PinchOt is held responsible.
Everything is in readiness in Poca-
tello for the convention. Accommoda-
lions have been provided for all the
delegates; the streets have been bril-
liantly illuminated: the midwinteT
sheep show, to be held in connection
with the national convention, promises
to be the greatest in the history of the
industry, and over 500 thoroughbrccs
and graded sheep have been entered
Three special Pullman cars, carrying
delegates from Wyoming. arrived this
evening. Tonight the Idaho delegation.
200 strong. will arrive. The Utah dele
cation will arrive later.
It is conservativeIy estimated that
tween 1000 and 1.500 sheep men will at
tend the Pocatello gathe'Dg.
Program of Convention.
The committee having the matter in
charge has prepared the following pro-
gram for the three days of the conven-
ton:
Thursday, 2 p. M,
Music
Invocation.
Address of welcome. Hon. James II.
Brady. governor of Idaho.
Address of welcome, Hon. G. r. NJ.
Loux. mayor of Pocatello.
Response to the addresses of welcome.
Colonel Z. J. Bell Laramie. Wyo.
Annual address. Hon. Fred W. GOodinE.
president National Wool Growers assOcia-
ton, Shoshone, Ida
Annual address of the western vice pres
ident Dr. J. NJ. Wilson. Douglas, WyO.
Annual address of the eastern vice pres
ident, Hon. Joseph Z. Wing. Mechanics
burg, o.
Appointment of committees.
Reading of communicate lions.
Recess.
Friday, $50 A. NJ.
Music
Reading of communications.
Advantages of Chicago as a Central
Market for WOOL Hon. W. II. Manss. in
dustriai commissioner Chicago AssOcia-
ton of Commerce.
Packing and Tying Fieeces. and the
Proper Care of Wool" Hon. T. G. John
ston, Blackfoot, Ida.
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