The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-23

neeces They sought the advice OF the
association. and the latter began 10 talk
storage" AS soon as this WAS done the
buyers hurried 10 the corrals and bought
cents. which afterwards could have been
sold at fourteen cents. Since then, Mr.
Stewart said. tho association had ma IN
tained warehouses at Boston. 1t was de-
houses In Salt Lake.
why" asked Mr. Smith.
''Wcn." said Mr.. Stewart 'the wool
growers like 10 have their wool near
them.
$50 they can take a look at It once in
while. presumef''
Stewart, was that they could conduct
their financial negotiations with the
banks under more favorable conditions.
Storage In Transit.
The reason why woolmen suffered at
the time the buyers had refused To go
cause storage at Salt Lake would have
been impossible owing tn the high local
added to the through rate OF s21S TO Bos-
ton would have made the arrange mcnt
Impossible
On cross-examination Mr.. Stewart ad-
mitted that tho railroads had not been
consulted at that time as 10 the emcr
gency situation, nor had they been asked
whether or not rate locally would have
been given 10 meet the contingency. Mr.
II for granted that the railroads would
do nothing in the matter.
In reply TO questions by Mr. Smith
Mr. Stewart said that the railroads have
been extremely liberal in their local rates
on livestock In the way Of carrying sheep
to winter ranges Mr. Stewart paid
short Line and Mr. Manderhcld of the
Salt Lake Route, saying that he and his
associates had been accorded every pos
sible courtesy by these two officials.
Il na..1t st,A,.
We called on him that thought we
were really going TO get something" said
Mr. Stewart.
There was general laugh at this. and
Mr. Stewart was excused,
Woolgrowing in Montana.
s. G.. Holiday secretary OF tho Mon
tana Woolgrowers association. was on
the stand for moro than an hour Mr..
Holiday had lived in Australia and was
familiar with the wool industry in that
He dwelt at length upon the method
Of baling and said that the superiority
of Australian wool depended not alto
ecther on It's fine quality. but also upon
the method In which 1t is prepared for
market. He said when the wool Is balcd
the greatest care Is used To keep the
bnrlap sackins from, getting into the
Paper or cotton cloth is bound about the
wool before the burIap is put Ties
are Of cotton. instead OF rough 'twine as
Is USGu III lnlS country. flDerS from
burlsp sacking and from twine entering
the wool, said tho witness. was Very
harmful.
Mr. HOLIDAY said figures prepared for
the tariff board by him on behalf Of tho
woogrowers of Montana showed that the
cost OF production had greatly increased
in the last ten wears. The sheep busi-
ness said he is now matter OF invest
menj In Montana; there Is no longer
speculation. He said that every head of
sheep represented an investment Of more
than sl9. This figure included tho ami
NAL tho price OF the land and tho ranch
equipment Mr. Holiday said that in
Montana tho railroads maintained big
wool warehouses at stations about 80
ccntrated. This concentration involved
q charge of cents the hundred but the
concentration system gave the producer
the advantage Of an auction market the
buyers coming TO the wool centers and
bidding on the clips at the warehouses.
Cost ls Cents Pound.
Mr Holiday said. according TO his est
males. tho operating cost i'm producing
wool in Montana was IS cents the pound
This. said Nc. rendered the ~oolgTowinS
business Improbable.
Mr. Holiday said the Montana grow
ors felt that the rate prevailing from
that state 10 eastern markets was rea-
tively high, although they had made no
specific complaint about g. Nearly ali
OF the Montana wool. he said, went by
way Of Duluth and the lakes. He said
tho cost OF running sheep in Montana
was about Si70 head per ycaT
ON oss-eAamlnation. Mr.. Holiday
said that IL was only IN recent years
that Improved methods and modern bust
ness systems have been applied TO the
wool industry. and that there IS still
much room for Improvement.
AT the Chicago hearing" said Mr.
Smith. Mr.. IIa azonbarth testified that tho
wool business suffered enormously from
lax methods; indeed. he satd no other
business was given 20 little business at
/ .crtion. Is that trucc''
Yes, think 1t IS" said Mr., HoIH-
day.
Mr.. Holiday said that the reason why
! American growers had not given moro at-
! icntion to packing and preparing well
/ their product for market Vas because
/ there no incentive. The noolbuycrs
preferred 10 take all western woods on n
general standard. and do their own sort
/ Ing and grading. This being So no espe-
! cial rate had ever been made for higher
OF lower grades of wool In the gfcass
| Mr.. Holiday said tina, mutton WAS half
! he sheep business, the greater half he
! thought
J. r. Nohlitt of tho CokeyiIlc Land 4
| Livestock company. the last witness
! He told OF increased cost OF production
lin Wyoming. assigning the same reasons
as those assigned by Utah growers H.
said the ~heepmen OF his section felt tina,
] the rate wool 90 Boston was relatively
! too high as compared With other prod