The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-22
FINDS 1910 BAD ONE
FOR FLOCKMASTERS
Boston Authority Reviews Wool
Business for the Year
Almost Closed.

| BOSTON, Dec 2f.-Thc passing year
has been an unfavorablc one for wool
growers and wool manufacturers alike
| throughout the country. duo te agita-
| ton over the tariff. natural conditions
that affected sheep raising and high
prices that restricted the market, ac-
cordlng to the twcnty-sccond annual re-
view issued today by the National AS
ISOLATION of Wool Manufacturers The
review says in part:
The year opened with probably 40
100000 pounds. or 10 per cent moro wool
including that In bond. carried over than
was The case i'm the beginning of 1909
The wool market was quiet in January
with prices fairly firm. The market
ssgged in February and the first quarter
OF The year closed with grave disappoint-
ment. Tho heavyweight season was a
iallure and prices remained in favor OF
the buyer
preston continued. There were some
what larger sales i'm April because many
holders wearled of carrying their wool.
Australian Purchases.
American purchases in Sydney and
victoria showed great falling off, while
curing December the central feature of
the market was the salo of moderate
quantities of the 1910 domestic clip for
shipment to England. The exports wero
the direct result Of persistent political
agitation for reopening and reduction
OF the tariff. particularly of schedule Is.
The year 1910 WAS one Of distinct
prosperity In European manufacturing
and OF brisk wool and WOODEN trade all
over the world. except in The United
states or in those markets directly ar
iected by the American situation.
The low prices In the domestic wool
market and the idle machinery in Ameri-
can mills simply reflected the demand OF
hostile interests that the new AldriCh-
Payne tariff should be overthrown almost
as soon as IL had been enacted. before
there had been any fair chance for an
actual, honest test OF the law I'm opera
ton.
Hogs More Profitable.
"A terrific winter for sheep growing
was followed by summers drouth, and
the natural and political con-
iiuons warning against them the wool |
growers have good cause to remember
1910 as a year OF sinister experience.
The present high price OF swine, the
abundance or corn for feed and the |
rapidity with which pigs can be fattened |
and prepared for slaughter have caused |
many flockmasters TO neglect their sheep |
'or the more profitable business OF swine |
raising.
The high prices for foodstuffs and |
>ther prime necesssries Of life have un- |
luestionably had their effect upon tho |
WOOL market. but this depressing effect. |
rom the very nature OF things as cloth |
ng must sooner or later be bought. can
lot indefinitely continue.
THE local wool production Of the |
United States for 1910. including pulled |
WOOL, is 21.S62.750 pounds. or 6.747 .99o
pounds less than the estimated product
Il last year. and this total product Is
TO l4l.sO6.s13 pounds Of
coured wool.
The total value OF the wool product
" the United States for the year. osti-
mated on the secured price in Boston. the
Of 1-n1 rl.nt of iha nntz
. was S12, ,4S9, $685. Last year the esti-
mated value was sss. .s29 7t6."