The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-22
MUTTON GOING TO
SOAR NEXT FALL
This Is Statement of Men Well
Nersed in the Sheep
Industry.
EARLY SALES OF WOOL.
HOWEVER, WAS MISTAKE
Outlook for Sheepmen in Utah
Was Never Brighter, 1t
Is Added.

Mutton Is going To soar this fall
although the prices to the conspmcr
rhavo been thought TO be quite high ,bis
year.
The sheepmen Of Utah have last
about 100000 this year By selling fboir
wool last winter TO the eastern copo.
mission houses
These are the two salient points !,
the news OF the sheep industry, ss
gwen out by the Utah State BOARD ~
Sheep Commissioners and the Ttah
State Wool Growers association. Mon.
day.
Shcaring is practically finished ov,r
the state, although some work remains
to be done at few northern poinis
Inc wool this year throughout Utah is
one oil The finest clips the state has cvcy
had, ii is clean and fine. and has :,
heavy demaud Most of the wool w,s
contracted for sale during the winter
q greater portion having been sold LAST
January, The growers who sold al that
IlIne nave lost from 5 10 } cents per
pound, as several big iumrs have
been made in the mark since ibcn
The loss 10 the state in general is mr.
appr"cIable one, as il means lhn.
utah S wool this wear has brought, for
the I2,OQo,00O pounds, about 100000
less than usual
But the sheepmcn are not rompIaip.
ing, AS this has turned out tn bc n st.r
year IN many WAYS. In fact. Utah has
mad Ear better luck than many other
western states with its sheer. This i:
accounted for by the fact thai fine svs.
tenn Of breeding and close inspection
has developed good class of slocI,
superior 10 most other localiiics
Utah vii! have a fine. bic crop of
lambs in September for Tho fan eastern
shipments. There Will be big price
for lambs, In MANY sections of tho
west there has been poor lambiug. Tho
backward spring held many sheep from
getting out on their regular limbipc
men cXpct 10 reap a rich harvest mex
September.
In Good Condition.
a. \. Callister, secretary of the Utat
State Board of Sheep Commissioners
states that the sbeepmen who sold their
wool last January around IS cents Il
pound would have averaged 81 cent.
had they held on 10 the clip for the
rise.
DIR: F. Z, Murray and his aides il
the L. S. bureau of animal industry
together with the state inspectors, are
vigorously carrying on the fight agains
scHD ana fickS. IheN aver that Utah i!
being well cleaned of these scourccs.
and that as i result of the war the
weight of flceces has been increased -
per cent in thc last five years.
Scab is found III few places this year
IN Utah, and the sheep are in excellent
condition, but there are many ticiSs hi,
season and the lambs are beina wor
RED by them on the summer ranges
Dipping is being pushed, however, and
IT Is believed that the parasites will
be greatly reduced through the vats.
In defending their avowcd purpose
Of demanding higher prices for wool
and mutton this year, the sheermeU
claim that the cost of running sheen
has increased 90 per cent within the
last five years. They say that today
shcepman must either own the sheep
range himself or else he must pay heavy
rental in the form Of grazing fees 10
the government for the privilege OF
using The forest reserves. Again, they
add that wages have increased 80 Is
per cent, and that the general cost OF
living has doubled in that time