The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-02-11
.SHEARING SHEDS
PLEASE SHEEPMEN
E. Cossriff Of Salt Lake City Discusses New
Systsm Which Has Been Adopted
In Wyoming and Idaho.

region next SPRING in addition to the first Australian sbe
he'd erected in this country which built and operated last
year by the Pioneer Australian Shearing Sheds COMPANY six miles
.outh of Bitter Creek, Wyo
Two Australian shearng sheds now in course of con-
tucon in Carbon county Wyoo under the direction of W T.
Rth the Australian wool specialist brought to the United states
Two years ago by j. r. Cosg president the Continental N
ona bank Of Salt Lake City, who paid Rcs salary year
while he visited the various sections of the ntcrmop W
explaining sheepmen the Australian method preparing wool
for market at its source-the shearing she'd
Idahoans Are Interested In the Movement.
In addition to the two new Australian sheds being built in Car
bon county Wyo it is understood movements under way
among Idaho sheepmen for the erection of Australian
sheds in that state at once SO that the crews trained to operate
hearng plant built under the Australian system be
from another of these Australian Sheds and thus insure
full seasons work
Meanwhile the fact that the Australian system of shearng
sheep and preparing wool for market at its has gained
very strong foothod in the ntemountan States attracting
great deal of attention in Eastern worsted and wooden manu
turing circles:
cred Of the very strong trade reaching worsted and
wooden manufacturers in this country and abroad and the editors
Of the Journal asked f. Cosg TO contribute article TO the
January annual number treating of the Australian sheang
being adopted in Wyoming and other nemoun-
tain States from the standpoint of the advantages 10 worsd and
WOODEN manufacturers of this system of hearng sheep and
pairing wool FOR market Cogrffs article in the Textile World
Journal here follows:
During the spring of 1915 there erected by the Pioneer
Australian SheaTing Sheds company six miles north of Bitter
Creek Station Wyo the first modern shearng shed
rued TINS country The operation OF the plant was so sue
u and far exceeded the expectations Of the that in
the hope Of advancing the interests of the sheep industry they
issued and mailed booklet to the sheepmen of the neounan
States setting forth the advantages of the system and the salts
1T may appear almost startling the who has
given the subject serious consideration to learn that the
largest sheep companies of the lnermoun9n States with per-
maps quarter of million dollars invested have conducted their
hearing operations in miserable makesh plants costing total
Of but few hundred dollars Their sheare and other help
without comfortable sleeping quarters without means OF taking
BATH and without laundry for clean clothes The sheep have
been without shelter exposed 10 the merces storms and winds
after having been shorn of their eece The brutal treatment at
me time Of sheang has been such that humane societies have
taken steps to punish the offenders In these pens fleece of
wool has been treated If of little value With utter dis
regard Of difference in quality of the wool shorn the entire
sack from which the foul odor emitted has proclaimed the char
acler OF the work
New Method Has Awakened Controversy.
That the revolution proposed by the method has awaken
ed controversy among sheepmen manufacturers is not
sng The the reform the the opposition
10 the heepmen who have read the booklet ssud by the company
there nothing further said but the readers of the Tex
W world Journal the views of who assisted in the establish
% OF the new sheds the question OF the preparation OF
wool as affecting the interests of the manufacturer may be OF
passing interest
The first adverse criticism heard that the cost of shear
ana packing prohbtve, and surprising as may seem
Inc cost of shearng and properly CHASING and packing the
per head actually less than the cost of sheang and sack
the old II is simply the question Of system and order
better results at lessened cost than dsorganed or p
l'Ne methods bring.
Opinions been advanced that the monge class of sheep
the ntermountan States must displaced before the Aus
ahan system be operated successfully Let those critics
r m mind that better sheep and better wool will quickly follow
me establishment the Australian system but hardly
IT, Since w. T. Ritch to this country and explained the
merits OF the Australian system there has been more interest
and greater effort sheemen in general to improve
e quality OF their wool than has ever been noted before
Present Method Handicaps Improvement.
The method employed buying wool in the West either upon
Sheps back at shearng time certainly has not been cor
cNe 10 Improvement The practice Of offering approNaey
ne same price for all clips in given locality without regard 10 he
varying qualities of the clips in obtained In TACT
some sections the sheepmen pooled their clips But IN re-
gard to the different qualities of the eeces in an individual clip
ere has been difference in price between the eeces