The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-05-27
WOOL Growers
WERE NOT CAUGHT
NH SALE AT MOUNTAIN HOME
WAS A FARCE SAYS SAM
BALLANTYNE.
u,oI This Year Will Come Within
Tv Cents of Last Years Price
London Market is StrOng-Scott
anderson Slips to Ware House.

samuel Bal'antync, secretary of
IN. Idaho Wool Growers association,
s,,r,. that reports from Chicago in
d.,,-.. that London wool market is
,.r, stronS Inasmuch as Australian
srro Is COINS quite high at this stage
III he came II iG not probable that
foreign wool will be purchased in
,rnfcrenco to the domestic high
grades. Th Idaho clip is clean and
fin
movement which promises to reach
extensive proport ons was set on foot
las, week when thu biggest wool
growers of Idaho started to load and
shin their clips to the National Wool
wareh, So in Chicago. W. Scott An.
derson started the ball rolling by
shipping a carload, including $4,000
mounds or hiG initial shipment. Mr.
Anderson ordered the longest car
possiac from the Oregon Short Line
and wac given a fifty-foot car, where
MS the ordinary wool cars arc only
thirty-siY feet Ions. The fifty-foOt
car wa filled and sent on its way to
Chicago. T. il anticipated that at
least twenty moro carloads will TO-
low before tho end of the month.
The growers will by this method.
be able to sell direct to the wooden
manufacturers at established market
prices later in tho season. The Chi
cago warehouse has given notice that
almost r. full quota has been ar
ranged 70 I'D that it will only store
25,O00OOO pounds this year. Sim
'lar reports come from the co-opera-
tive warehouse in Philadelphia.
At the Mountainhomc sales day
the bidding, according to Mr.. Ballan-
tyne, degenerated into 2 farce. This
has created a great sensation among
all persons interested in the wool in
dustry. because the Mountainhome
district carries sales of a million
r~undG Of wool for tho season. AS
only 800 pounds have been sold
there, , far, the outlook is very dark
for the Boston and Philadelphia men.
Mr.. Ballantyno stated that there
are about 100000 head Of sheep
today in the state of Idaho, and that
owing to the hard winter and conse-
quent loss of 10 per cent at the min
imum estimate, the sheepmen figure
tho cost of a sheep at s1.75 to start
with They are counting their largest
profits on tho lambs and ewes. Mr..
Ballantyne gave it as his firm opinion
that the conditions throughout the
world, as shown by tho reports of
experts recently, warrant the predic
ton that wool will go to q point but
. cents lower than the prices of last
year. The Idaho growers, he said,
will hold their stuff until wool goes
from II to 20 cents.
Fight is to 2 Finish.
The Idaho sheepmen are prepared
10 fight the eastern commission trus'
10 a finish" said Mr.. Ballantyne,
because most of them are in good
financial shape, and If the buyers re-
fuse to come up to fair prices, they
will simply have to go back without
Idaho wool, and that's al there is to
it, Thora will be no compromise.
Tho buyers wanted to get the un-
wary growers to sell at tho lowest
possible figures at Mountainhome and
were prepared to spread thot report
over tho country in order to hammer
down prices universally. But the
growers arc So perfectly rEan'zed
that tho strategem was piefced al
once. The result is that now be buy
ers cant get any OF thte groFeps to
sell AT all" -