Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-02-09
PACIFIC COOPERATIVE WOOL
GROWERS TO ENTER IDAHO

GROWERS TO ENTER IDAHO
The Pacific Cooperative Wool
Growers, a cooperative concern COM
posed of 1900 wool growers in Ore
gon and Washington, is going TO
take in members from Idaho, follow
ing a series of conferences which
I have been held with representatives
| Of hte various county Farm Blu
reaus, the Idaho wool growers asso-
Citations, and the Boise Valley Wool
Pool. The Pacific Cooperative Wool
Growers, formerly the Oregon Wool
and Mohair Growers Association has
successfully adopted the California
contract plan of cooperative market
ing to the marketing of wool. The
Association, only little over year
old has had very successful year,
and has marketed some 100000
pounds of gradede wool direct to
mills at satisfactory prices
Members woods are assembled in
U. S. licensed warehouse in Port
land, where they are graded by U. S.
licensed graders in accordance with
commercial standards, and then sold
by the Association in an orderly man
ner throughout the year direct to
mills.
Woods nj the past have reached
the market via some three to five
middlemen who took so much for
the services rendered that wool
growers received far less than the
true value of their product. Wool
Growers usually sold to country buy
ers, warehouse men, or peddlers,
and as the growers were not familiar
with latest current prices, they usu-
ally accepted the offers made them.
Woods were sold ungraded, in the
original bag, and buyers usually
paid prices based on the poorest
woods in the bag. This penahzed
the grower of good woods and there
was little incentive for him to grow
good woods OF prepare them for mar
ket properly. There is a great spread
in the value of the different grades
of wool-as much as Is cents per
pound at the. present time, between
the value of fine staple woods and
coarse braid, but in the country,
much of it sold at flat price, usu-
ally the lowest grade.
The entire wool clip of the U. S.
is ordinarily taken away from the
growers in about two months time.
Those that buy it, carry it for the
mills and sch it to them as they re-
quire it, Prices are usually de-
pressed at shearing time until the
clips are in the hands of the dealers,
when efforts are made to raise
prices.
The Pacific Cooperative Wool
Growers market their graded woods
direct to mills, in an orderly fash !
ion over a period of several months |
This results in better average prices !
for growers. The Association also |
secures those clips that are dirty, |
stained, or that will sell better in |!
secured condition. This enhances |
the value of the wool, and accurate /
ly determines its shrinkage. Grow
ers are financed on the basis of o. |
S. graded wool warehouse receipts,
by the Association from the time the
wool is shipped until final settle
ment is made. The Association is
daily in possession of all wool mar
ket quotations by wire, and main
tains correspondence connections
with the chief wool centers of the
world AS result, it can and does
sell its wool for the top current quo
tations. 80 ..-. .s..-
The Organization is strictly CO.
operative and formed on the Cali
fornia contract plan. Members sign
contracts to deliver their wool for
period of years to their Association.
This guarantees the unity of the
Organization, and enables the con-
Germ to offer uniform quantities of
graded wool annually to it's mill
The affairs of the Asso-
citation are directed by a board of
fifteen directors, fourteen of whom
are wool growers elected by the
members and one of whom is ap-
pointed by the Bureau of Markets.
All officers of the Association are
wool men, thoroughly
'amiliar with woods and the selling.
The headquarters of the Pacific Co I
operative Wool Growers Associa- =,
ion is in the Morgan Building, Port
and. 1t Is expected that many OF
he Idaho Wool Growers who are in /
crested in better wool marketing {
will join and form a united Wool
Growers Organization in the Boise
Jalley district. l