The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-12
"JOBBEp" IN WOOL.

The Ilaho woolgrowers very curious
| " agree with the Utah woolgrowcrs
that ''thc only fair. honest. and scicn-
tifc duty that can he Levied upon wool
is tho Juty levied upon the secured
basis y and it is stated that from
time immcmorial woods of the world
have been bought upon this basis
We saw il is curious indeed TO see
the wooimen Of this interior country
demanding the continuance Of tho
secured basis, when that basis, as shown
| by the report Of the Secretary of
the California Woolgrowcrs Assocla-
tion, is The very basis upon which
the woolgrowers arc constantly
cheated. By selecting Aceces, clipping
out the portions which carry the
heavy grease dust. ana dirt Of various
kinds. the wool manufacturers are
able TO import upon a basis which at
fords the American wool2rower pro
lection Of but six cents q pound. where
as under the law. they arc sup
lection And vet the woolmeu, O! 1Iaho
and Utah insist that this is what they
want. One would suppose, from the
trouble they are in from this very
cause, that they would say that tins is
what they do not want. But because
the. usage is Immomorial they do not
want any change, no matter il the
WOODEN manufacturers have taken ad'
vantage of that immemorial usage to
make selections and determinations IN
their imports in such a way as 10 lie
prive the woolgrowers of almost half
of the protection which they have sup
posed they were receiving.
But President Fred w Gooding, of
the National WooIgrowers Association,
is beginning 10 get an idea of where
the pinch really is. In his report tell
ing Of the storage and sales of wool,
he speaks of this matter of shrinkage
in securing, aud claims that Idaho woods
average seventy per cent shrlnkagc,
while those of Wyoming 90 as high as
seventy-siX per cent. He enjoins upon
the woolgrowcrs the necessity of put
! ting their wool up in cleaner man
ner for the market, showing that
failure TO do this causes lrops in the
prices, lie also saws that it is time for
the shecpmen TO wake up, 'as they are
being iobbcd by the railroads by be
ing forced TO pay high freight rates aud
allowing the manufacturers to tell them
what the tariff should be, - Here is
a ghmmcring of sense and under
| standing First Of all, the woolmen
shoull clean their woods before ship
ment in order 10 save freight rates; if
| they could have securing plants and
scour their wool first of all as demanded
in the market, il woUll be that much
the better; but, at any rate, rs Presi-
| dent Gooding says. put the wool mp
| in as clean q manner as possible. This
woull save freights, and it would also,
in a way. tend 10 offset the pickings
made by the manufacturers in their I'M.
ports of foreign woods
The imports of wool arc on the
secured basis, on a standardized ratio
Of 66 % per cent shrinkagc from the
creased to the secured; but by careful
selections in foreign markets, AMI by
eliminating from the necces those por.
tions which carry the heavy grease
and dirt of various kinds. the shrink
age is reduced on the import secured
basis to an average Of something less
than forty per cent. Perhaps ono would
not be much out Of the way in saying
that the average shrinkage does not
90 over thiriy-ninc per cent. This is
the statement of the Secretary of the
California Woolgrowers Association
short Of the standardized per cent cuts
down the protection of The American