Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-07-22
WHY Not Manufacture Western
Wool At Home?

st Paul, Mimi, July A. why
not spin and manufacture Montana
IN st. Paul and other great COM
,,o, centers Of the Northwest?''
r5;s is the question put by leading
:. paul business man whose atten-
.;o has been largely drawn to Mont
b,, the recent excursion of leading
,norcbants through that state by spec
;.r train. He asserts, and his opinion
:, hacked by the belief of a number Of
nrominent men, that a concerted effort
nopd be sufficient to establish the
manufacture Of wool products in the
Nortbwest. and divert to the home
territory an immense amount Of bust
ness which is now handled by far
EASTERN manufacturers of yarn, knit
goods and all the products into which
western wool enters.
Montana wool passes through
Minnesota transfer at St. Paul annual
IL by the hundreds of carloads" this
authority continued. sit goes largely
IN the Boston market there to be sold
to spinners of yarns and other users
Of the raw material. The yarn is spun
it enters into manufactured articles,
the manufactured product is sold at
eastern mills, transported to the great
wholesale houses of St. Paul and from
this point sold in small lots back into
the very territory where the original
wool was grown. From the time the
wool leaves the back of the sheep it
is almost continuously journeying,
only to make considerable circuit of
the United States and return to the
territory where it was grown.
1T is improbable that the whole
WOODEN industry will ever move west
ward, but it is time to give much at
tention to these following points:
The water of the Mississippi river
at st. Paul, and the waters Of a num-
Der OF our own streams are we'll adapt
ed to the washing processes of the
manufacturers Of yarns.
Practical experiments in the man
fracture of knit goods of wool have
Already been successfully carried on in
'Ms general location and the manu-
lecturers have found it easily possible
=" build up large and profitable
trade.
Wool manufactured at St. Paul,
VI al any other centers having the
oeSt OF modern distributing facilities,
WI save freights to the seaboard and
return.
WOOL manufactured into yarns in
'als territory means the Immediate
growth Of large industries prepared to
-aAe The yarns and other products OF
VIC "a" material, and convert them
'''o the finished products which have
large sale throughout the entire
west and are now manufactured al
most entirely in the east.
1t has been proven that under.
year. blankets and many other article.
''leet to continuous and dependable
'S'l'a0d can be manufactured viii
great profit in this territory, yet il
's1Sl cases the weaving and knitting
machines are supplied with their ma
'sFlaI' not from home institution
>o"'eftlng the raw wool, but from
eastern concerns.
The east GOT or;x =. 49,
'"sSs during the period when WOO
5.ts. was an eastern industry an
lure the great Montana plains ha
49, '''s the center of production 70
~ ~ "a" material. Once established
m,I influences have tended to keep tn
+tanafaeturers of the raw material !
nsrs;~ 5', apparently against the com
i ss'al law that manufacturing "a
'S' pF0fitably conducted, othe