The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-02
Grower Who Contracted 1.
Fall Comes Out Winner /,
Exceedingly Long Odds.
PRICES TENDED STEADIIy|
DOWNWARD SINCE SpRu
Conservatiyely Estimated m
Total Production Has Beer
Fifteen Million Pounds.

The Utah woolgrower who contra,
his 1910 clip was the lucky dog, and
Utah woolgrower who held aloof Z,
contracting IS Il loser by lack OF 4,
sight. Contrarywise, the Utah y,
grower who contracted for his l9oD
lost money and the man who held
made money. So the woolcrover
taking chance whichever way he !.
The wool season will come TO its Il
for the year by the end of next ~
There are still few clips to be sb
in the northern part Of the state.
these will be cleaned up before
week is out
The product for Utah for the :
has been l5,0O0,000 pounds. One.t}
OF this was contracted for Last
and winter at prices ranging from
to % 1.2 cents. Some Of the light no,
erns went as high as the latter 60
Along about the beginning of sI'
ing time wool went down. Some n.
ran down as loY as II ---'- This
Piled to some of the heavy southe,
Eighteen and half cents was the h
mark In the spring, and it took y
tops to command the lattor fiu
Those quotations rule today. Norti
lighter woods command 10 1-2 10 18'
cents, but the southerns are gener.
sold around Is and l6 cents. AltoqI
er, wool in Utah may be said TO il
dropped from to 5 cents.
Nearly All Shipped.
Nearly all the wool has now b
shipped. The Utah Woolorowers'
sociation would have handled IA
part of the wool not contracted
but it did not begin early enough
the season. and nearly all the grov
sold directly. AS it is, the WooIen
ers' association has handled about s.
900 pounds. which has been stored n
jeremiah williams & Co.. at Bon
The association does not make a On
out of this, acting merely as agent
the flockmasters. The half mill
pounds thus consigned will be added
by the shipping of other clips yet
come, which will likely run the I'd
up TO 100000 pounds. This wool ,
be held for higher prices. The a
citation keeps au eye on the mar
conditions for the grower, who ia d
ally away on his range and consequ(
" not in touch with the fluctuations
The National Wool Warehouse a
pany, IN association Of wool producl
with an immense storage house in
cago and another in another city, y
handle some of the Utah clip, but
Nationals s greater business will Cd
from Idaho, Wyoming and other stal
Sheep Winter Well.
A, a. Calllster. secretary Of the 81
board of sheep commissioners, says d
the sheep wintered well. f!I, belii
Utah has the finest winter range in
world,' said Mr.. Callister. 9Th
was last year considerable lip and
disease. but this infection has now
most entirely disappeared. There,
no scab TO speak of. Altogether,
flocks are free from disease. Bet
going to the winter range. the eh|
will be dipped again. The dipping
all chance Of scat, will eradlc!
ticks and will serve as preventaf'
auy other disease.
'The lip and leg disease, VII
caused more or less anxiety last 70
has udpUlly paSscu- SpIic VI tH'
mails were treated-a great MANY,
fact-and among the rest of the flo'
it seemed Just TO dry up and dis
pear.'
An illustration of how the sheopu
is sometimes unlucky in his CUES
to whether or not to contract is sno|
in the case of southern ROVER.
1908 he contracted his 1909 Clip
II cents. When it came time to q
and he brought it TO the railroad
clip was worth "a cents Last year
But he turned the proposition dor
When he brought his wool to the q
road this season the best he could
was 15 cents. So it will be seen
his man was unlucky two years IN q
cession.
Basing the wool clip of Utah af
200. 900 pounds and the average, pI'
at is cents, the total for the wool pIo
lct would be $2,700,000. HI