Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1921-07-13
FIRED W. HERRIN
ELECTED DIRECTOR OF
WOOL GROWERS

and southern Oregon ooanties signed
in membership by July J, passed it'
quota officially on June 81. \ meet
ng of the organization committee
was held on that date and organic,
ing directors elected to serve until
the state election, which will be held
il each district during :Ae week ol
Jriy 1928.
The organizing directors elected
for the short period are Fred w.
Herrin, OF Ashland district NJ. |;
c. L. Beckley, D0onyille. and r. Roy
Booth, Yoncalla, district No. q j. d.
Cornett, Shedd, district No 5; Will
liam Riddell, Jr.. Monmouth, district
No. Z; G. II. Thompson, Macleay,
district No. s; S. A. CorGill Molalla,
and ]. W. Smith, Aurora, district No.
8; A. B. Flint, Beaverton, district
No. 10. G. ]. Hurd was appointed
by the director of the bureau Of
markets to represent the public on
the board. The week of July 1923,
the district elections will be held to
elect fourteen directors. The dis
tricts and the number o. directors
to which they are entitled in proper
tion to the number of sheep signed
are as follows:
District No. jackson, Josephine
and Curry counties, two directors.
District No. 2-Douglas aud Coos
counties, three directors.
District No. 3-Lane county one
director.
District No. 4--I.ane and Linn
counties, one joint director.
District No. 5-L,nn county. two
directors.
District No. 6-Lincoln and Ben
ton counties, one director.
District No. Polk county, one
director.
District No. S-Marion county, one
director.
District No. 10-Yamhlll, Wash
sngton and Tlllamook counties, cne
director.
The association now has oyef i5OO
members and over 100000 fleeces
signed up, which makes it one of the
largest and the strongest Of The cGm-
modify marketing organlza ''.4. It
is patterned somewhat after the Cali
fornia associations and some of the
middle western wool marketing as
soclatons, which have made sig
nal success for their members.
The affairs Of the association are
managed by experienced wool men
and business men, and it has the in
dorsement of leading bankers, wool
growers and business men. Over
100000 pounds of members woods
are now being graded. Formerly
these woods were sold ungraded, and
buyers bought on the basis of the
value of the poorest fleeces in the
sack, This was business necessity
because of the great irregularity of
wools and the bad condition in which
they usually came into the market.
However, this practice on the whole
penalized every careful grower and
resulted in considerable loss to sheep
men. All association wools are
graded by Boston experts and put
In merchantable condition, which
greatly enhances their value. After
gradsng and ballng, the wool also
takes a considerable lower rate east
which makes an additional saving
for sheepmen. The woods are han
died in licensed U. S. wool ware
house, graded and weighed by IL |
censed graders and weighers which
insures fair and impartial handling
to all shippers. Through the medium
of licensed warehouse receipts which
show the quantity and quality of each
grade of wool. advances are being
secured to take care OF growers until
selling. Wools are sold lirect 10
mills and to large eastern wool mer-
chants. The elimination of three
or four country buyers or middle
men and the necessary handling
charges, coupled with the grading of
the woods, makes considerable saw
ing for the wool growers Sixteen
similar wool associations are In ex-
istence. Some of these are several
years old. All have made success
or their business and have secured |
several cents a pound more their
shippers. The associations methods
OF marketing the woods are generally
conceded by authorities to be the
only sound and business-like method
OF handling the farm flock clips The
association will handle over 2,OO0,-
900 pounds of wool this season. East
ern sales connections are being made
at the present time.
The success of this new Oregon
venture Is due in no small way to
the organizing ability OF the asso-
W. \. WILLS DIED THURSDAY
AT THE COUNTY POOR FARM