Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-07-14

~ the wool clip all over the United
States should be reduced for the
year 1910, as it has been in Ari-
N zona, where the clipping is done
earlier than in other sections of
the country, the market will be high
Arizona had the earliest clip in its
history this year. The clip is usual
ly at its height in Salt River valley
and in other sections OF the territory
about the middle of February. where
as this year the sheep were all shorn
and on their way back to the hills on
February Il. The focks wintered
well, but owing to the cold weather
the grass on the ranges continued
dry, and as a result the quality of the
wool was improved, while the output
was curtailed SO pronounced was
this shortage In the clip that instead
of the influx of several hundred thou
sand of sheep into the clipping CEN
ters of the Salt River valley, the mum
bers could be counted by the thou
sands.
The clipping began this year about
the tenth of January. and by the mid
die OF February was finished at Cave
Creek. Marinette, Beardsley. Hot
Springs Junction, Congress Junction
and Weden. Machines were used at
all these clipping centers with the OK
ception of Weden and Congress June
ton. whore the shearing was done by
hand. Shearing in the north was la
ter, but even there far ahead of the
usual season Conditions were about
the same in Mohave county. the clip
ping center for that district being
Kingman.
In former years IL was customary
for the sheep men to drive their
flOcks from MOhayc county to the Salt
River valley for the lambing and
Shearing season, using the forest
ranges running north and south for
forage along the route both north and
south. Nut the new forest regulations
now prohibit this use Of the govern
ment reserves; the sheep men have
been unable 10 get their ducks through.
especially through tho Verde valley.
so that the movement south was aban.
doned this season.
lu addition 90 the restrictions placed
upon the forest reserves, tho valleys
that In former years We're green. oW.
ing 70 tho cold, dry weather and the
consequent lack of rains this year
were not green enough 10 support the
moving hocks. The result or this is
that those docks which were moved
south, for lack of grazing in the cen.
tral Arizouu valleys. had % hasten
back north. where the lamblng proved
disastrous, not only 10 the lambkins
but TO tho ewes as we'll For this
reason co per cent. OF the sheep shoru
IN Arizona for 1910 had the clipping
done IN layapai county. midway De-.
tween the valley and northern ranges.
this being the lowest altitude obtain.
able where there was the comtina.
tiou of clipping facilities. nearby ship.
ping points aud fair ranges Hy the
same token e. o. now predicted that
the lamb crop Tor enc year win not
exceed i0 per cent of what n should
he. or would be under more favorable
condition.
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