Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-28
Clip This Year viii. Bring s2,5O0,-
600 While Lambs Rep
resent $4,000, 600.
95 PER CENT is CLEANED UP.
Total Weight in Flccccs Clipped Ag-
srcsalcs ll,Ooo,oOo Pounds--Mhat
The Railroads Share in Freight.

tEtall's wool crop This yeai, will net
tha state Two and q huff million dol
lars, THAT is the value OF all the wool
produced In this state during the wool
shipping season which is Just closing.
me figure given may be little less
IMAM The actual amount, or perhaps
q little in excess; but not far distant
iipi lhe real figure, one way or the
other
In other words. the total wool clip In
this state this year will approximate
nearly lfd00 600 pounds. The price paid
Tor wool has ranged from IA TO 20 cents
aon an average; in some Instances,
where the clip was contracted before
the high prices began to figure in the
seasons clip, wool WAS sold as low as
II cents tioc£ Then again, in a
few sporadic Instances, the price vent
UP as high as 20 and y cents a pound,
one clip bringing as high as % cents,
2 l5llt I hese were exceptional prices, and
the average may be safely figured at
about rs cents q pound. or a. round
$4,000 900 for the wool clip of this state
this year.
LAME CROP.
Then, there Is the item of lambs
which must be reckoned in arriving at
the value of the sheep industry, in adj
sditon 10 the value of the sheep them
selves. There are 100000 ewes in the
state, it is estimated, and the value
of he ordinary eve is conservativey
placed at $3.50; the total value of the
sheep then, would be $4,000, 900. The
lamb crop. 1t is said, will reach as
per cent this season, giving 100000
lambs. which are being sold for 50
apiece. This would add S4,500,CO0 to-
the total value of the sheep indus
try in the state, making that indus
try worth for the present year alone,
the snug sum of $4,000. 0OO,}
Most Of the wool clip this season was
shipped TO st Louis, Mo. One firm
alone, that of 3. Harris Wool com
pany Of st. Louis, secured one half of
the clip or Approximately 1000 900
pounds. In speaking of the wool clip
this morning, Marcus Harris, represent
ing the company IN this city, said:
Our firm secured half of the Utah clip
this year. The amount of money we
paid out runs up into the millions.
We shipped all our woolto st. Louis.
Fully IS per cent OF the Utah clip is
cleaned up, and we are now winding up
shipments from Idaho and western
Wyoming. Altogether in the west our
firm has paid out $3,O0O,00O for WOOL
this season. Prices arc so per cent,
higher this year than they were last.
and the wool clip is perhaps 20 per
cent over the amount of last seasons
yield. II has been great year for
wool. and everybody grower, shipper
and buyer, seems to be happy"
WHAT RAILROADS GET.
From figures as to clips, etc. obtains
able, it is estimated that about half the
total Utah yield is shipped from the
state over the Salt Lake Route. A
great many of the larger siearing pens
of southern Utah are situated on this
line, and shipments are hauled in from
distant corrals for loading on the rousl.
The Denver. & Rio Grande secures
about 6,OO0,00O pounds of the clip, white
the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. and
Oregon Short Line gets about 1,000.0o0
pounds, these lines trslrersing territory
note so largely contributing in ship
ments of wool.
The rate on wool to st. Louis from
this state IS S1.55Ea cents per 100
pounds: on the Salt Lake Route this
to all points as far south as Frisco.
Utah. The rate to Boston Is s2.1S, but
the great bulk OF shipments from this
territory go to st. Louis. 1t is estimat-
ed that the railroads garner in, from
freight charges on the wool shipments
made from this state, the sum of s2T5-
COO
SOME BIG SHIPPERS.
Among the largest individual shippers
in the state are tine Deseret Livestock
company, which shipped out 100000
pounds of wool this season; n. S. Mel
son of Mt. Pleasant whose clip shipped
from Price footed up 100000 pounds:
Ira. Hatch of Panguitch. Watcher Bros.
of Provo. f. G. Jensen of Provo, Bowr
Bros, of Gunnison, Murdoch Bros. of
Heber Austin Bros association of Salt
Lake, Heber Land &; Livestock Co. of
Heber Austin &. Sons company, David
Smith and Albert Smithof Heher, Wood
Livestock Co, Thomas Webb Of Lehi,
the Smith Morgan company OF this city.
and hundreds Of others participated i'll, /
the shipments which turned out Gtaf's
great wool clip of the banner year OF
1909