Williams news., 1910-08-20
STATEMENT ISSUED
 TO THE WOOLGROWERS
To Wool Growers of Arizona:

U w JUL OIOWOIe Ol AIlLOud.
 Some years ago, the undersigned, believing it was not good business principle to consign wool to wool house, who bought and sold for speculation other wools from the same section or of the same class, set about to find a reliable broker through whom our wools might be safely handled and sold to the manufacturer at a minimum ex- pense to the wool grower. After careful investigation including sev eral days spent in Boston, such were made with Salter Bros, & Co.,, Wool Brokers, of Boston. l am assured they do a purely brokerage business and do not directly or indirectly buy or sell on their own account. We have consigned to them for num-
 Der of years and saved thousands of dollars by so doing. This year, for example, they sold the Gosney & Odell clip so as to net us, practi- cally, two cents per pound more than the highest bid at shearing corrals by the buyers.
 As a matter of justice to Salter
 Bros. & Co.,, and our duty to the
 wool growers of the Territory, and
 with no ill will toward any wool
 merchant, we have repeatedly recommended other wool growers to consign to Salter Bros. & Co. Their business in Arizona has con- stantly grown until the present year when they received on con- signment very large portion of the clip of the territory.
 We noticed recently. statement quoted from an Albuquerque paper and generally circulated among wool growers of the two territories, to the effect that Mir. Vandewort, we'll known wool buyer, until re- gently representing the hustling firm of Brown & Adams, had bought in Albuquerque from MT. Pollock, a large clip for Salter Bros. & Co.,, thus leaving the inn pression that Salter Bros. & Go. were wool merchants or specula- tors, as we'll as brokers, working wholly in the interests of their customers. We took this matter up with MT. Pollock and with MT, Salter and are DOW able to reassure the wool growers that this state ment was not correct. The clip in question was bought by MT. Vande- wort and paid for by Cross Kelley & Co.,, and Salter Bros. & Co.,, have nothing to do with the wool in question, except perhaps to sell it on consignment, for the purchasers. They have handled wool for Cross Kelly & Co, in the same way as they are selling for Arizona wool growers for years, and we are told MT. Vandewort arranged with them to have them sell for him any wool he might purchase on his own account. When we re- member that as a buyer MT. Van dewort was one of the strongest of Salter Bros. & Co.,, his practical endorsement of them in this way is a gratifying recom- mendation of their ability and in- tegrity.
 We make this statement because we feel largely responsible for the business Salter Bros. & Co.,, have received from Arizona, and more because we believe the wool grow ers will profit by continuing their business with this firm.
 We have heard of reports or rumors before to the effect that Salter Bros. & Co.,, were wool buy CTS as we'll as brokers. We do not know how they originated, but we can all see how they would be cal culated to injure the business of the firm, by misleading the wool grow ars