The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-05-31
PRICE OF 1918 WOOL
CLIP FIXED BY U. S.

Woolgrowers of Montana Re.
ceive Notice from Board
on New Regulations.
A number of s~heepraisers of Valley
and adjacent counties this week re-.
ceived q copy of the regulation price
fixed for the 1918 wool clip bv The
United State war board.
The war industries board has fxed
the price Of the 1918 wool elm at
the prices established June 30, 1917.
at Atlantic seaboard markets on the
secured basis.
The government is to have prior
rights on the clip for its needs at
those prices and the remainder is suh-
iect to ALLEGATION for other uses IN.
der the direction of the board. As the
needs of the government requires con
c~entration Of wool close to points Of
consumption, distributing c%enters have
been approved at which wool NAV be
distributed only.
For fleece wool the centers will he
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chi
capo. St. Louis, Detroit, Louisville.
Baltimore and Wheeling, w. Va.
For territory wool the centers will
be Portland, Ore, Chicago, New York.
St. Louis, Boston and PHILADELPHIA
The only exception is that clips of one
thousand pounds or under may be
sold by the owner, Fleece wool will
be considered as that grown east of
the Mississippi, also in Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louis
lana, also those parts of Kansas, Ne.
braska, North and South Dakota and
other localities where the same gen..
eral conditions prevail. All wool not
listed as fleece. shall be considered
territory wool.
Approved dealers will be entitled to
a gross profit in no case to exceed one
and one-half cent per pound on the to.
tai seasons business, this profit to
cover all expenses from grower to
loading wool on board cars.
The grower shall receive fair prices
for his wool based on the Atlantic sea-
board price as established on July 80,
1917, less the profit to the dealer as
stated above and less freight to the
seaboard moisture, shrinkage and in
terest.
In no Ease shall this be construed
to mean that there shall be more thar
one and one-half cents gross profits
made from time wool leaves growers
hands until it arrives at the distribut-
ing center.
Growers who desire to do so, will be
allowed to pool their crops in guam
titles of not less than minimum car
loads of 10000 pounds and consign
the woods so pooled as one account to
any approved dealer in any ap-
proved distributing centers. Growers
are urged to adopt this latter course
through county agents or others, thus
eliminating the profits of one middle
man.
In addition to said prices the gov
eminent is to pay a further sum equal
to 4 per cent of the selling prices to
cover compensation or commission to
approved dealers tor their services in
collecting and distributing wool. On
wool not taken by the government fer
it's own use and which may be allo-
Gated for other uses, prices will also
be fixed in accordance with July 30,
1917, values at Atlantic seaboard mar
kets and on such wool approved deal
CID SiHdlA Uc cIlIlIECu W d COIlIllSSlOH
or compensation Of a sum equal to 4
per cent of the selling price and this
commission or compensation shall he
a charge against said wool and shall
be collected from the manufacturer to
whom said wool is allocated.
AS a guard against profiteering the
books of all approved dealers is dis
tributing centers shall be at all times
open to government inspection and if
it be found that their gross profits, in
GLIDING the aforesaid commission of
4 per cent, are in excess of 5 per cent
on the seasons business then such
gross profits hall be disposed of as
the government decides. The books
of the country dealers shall likewise
be open to government inspection.
The grower shall be entitled to re-
ceive an advance up to but not ex-
ceeding 5 per cent of the fair esti-
mated markAt value of his wool.
The conn., sion or compensation for
handling '.QFnin the designated dis
tributing ceaters will be added to SELL
ing price of the wool and paid by the
buyer. If sold in the original bags the
commission or compensation shall be 3
per cent of the selling price. If the
wool is graded the commission or CON-
pensation shall be 81 per cent of the
selling price.
All dealers in approved centers de-
string a permit to operate should
apply to the wool division of the war
industries board stating their capacity
for storing and grading. All country
dealers should apply for a permit to
operate by writing to the wool divi-
sion of the war industries board, Civ
ing name and address.
In order to expedite movement of
wool, dealers in country districts and
distributing centers may operate i'm
mediately in accordance with the
above regulations pending application
for and granting of permit.
Miss Mabel B. Thayer, teacher at
Redstone, Sheridan county, reports
that thirty-two Of her forty-fve pu-
pills are buying stamps. The average
purchase per pupil is $1.33.
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