Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-22
Closing Year viii Long Be Re-
membered as One Of Sinister
Experience for Sheep RaiserS
of United States,
POLITICS AND NATURAL
CONDITIONS AGAINST THEM
Agitation for Tariff Revision,
Hard Winter and Dry Summer
Combine to Make Life One
Long Troubled Dream.

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
Boston, Dec. 21.--The passing year
has been an unfavorable one for wool
growers and wool manufacturers alike
throughout the country, due to agita-
ton over the tariff, natural conditions
that affected sheep raising and high
prices that restricted the market, ac-
cording to the twenty-second annual
wool review issued tonight by the Ma
tional Association of Wool Manufac-
turers. The review says in part.
The year opened with probably for
ty million pounds, or forty per cent
more wool, including tf&t in bond,
carried over than was the case in tine
beginning of 1909 The wool market
was quiet in January with prices
fairly firm. The market sagged in
February and the first quarter of the
year closed with grave disappoint-
ment The heavyweight season was
a failure and prices remained In favor
OF the buyer.
"Throught the spring months the
depression continued. There was
somewhat larger sales in April be-
cause many holders wearied of car
rying their wool. American purchas-
great falling off while during Sep
tember the central feasarc Of the mar
ket was the sale of moderate quanti-
ties of the 1910 domestic clip for
shipment to England. The exports
were the direct result of persistent
political agitation for reopening anu
reduction Of the tariff, particularly Of
schedule X.
"Thc year 1910 was one OF distinct
prosperity in European manufacturing
and brisk wool and woolen trade all
over the world, except in the United
States or in those markets directly
affected by the American situation.
THE low prices in the domestic
wool market and the idle machinery
in American mills simply reflected
the demand Of hostile interests that
the new Aldrich-Payne tariff should
be overthrown almost as soon as 1t
had been enacted, before there had
been any fair chance for an aetuui
honest test Of the law in opration.
"A terrific winter for sheep grow
ing was followed by summers
drought and altogether with natural
and political conditions warning
against them the wool growers have
good cause to remember 1910 as
year of sinister eXperinece.
Inc present lllBn price VI SWlh's
the abundance of corn for feed and
the rapidity with which pigs can be
fattened and prepared for slaughter
have causd many flock masters to
neglect their sheep for the more prof
liable business of swine raising.
The high prices for foodstuffs and
other necessaries of life have unques-
tionably had their effect upon the
wool market but this depressing effect
from the very nature Of things, as
clothing must sooner or later be
bought, cannot indefinitely continue.
The local wool production OF the
United States for 1910, including pull
ed wool lis 321.362.750 pounds, or g.
747, ,999 pounds less than the esti-
mated product of last year, and this
total product is equivalent to 141, $685.
S13 pounds of secured wool.
"The total value of the wool prod
ucts of the United States for the year
estimate don tn secured price In Bos-
ton the chief wool market of the
world October 1, was $72. .4S9, 1888.
Last year the estimated value was {,
$SS,S29,746."