San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
For the First Time, Ameri-
can Wooden Company Is
Utilizing Every Plant.
GROWERS TO BENEFIT
More Wool Will Be Pro-
duced and Prices Will
Continue to Climb.
BY ]. C. ROYLE.

Copyright, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, April 5.-Every spindle
and every loom of the American Wool
en- Company, the greatest producer OF
wooden goods in the world, is in oper-
alton today.
For the first time in its history
the company is operating plants in
various sections Of the country at 100
per cent capacity and pressure for
cloth is so great that within ten days
it is probable that some mills will be
operated at night.
As result of conditions which the
position of the leading manufacturer
is indicative about 10 TO 10 per cent
more wool will be produced in the
next year than in the last and sheep
herds will increase nearly 20 per cent.
Unborn lambs are being contracted
for in the West today at $3.50 each.
Wool prices are over 100 per cent
above the low points of 1921 and
mutton prices are over 40 per cent
higher than in that period of de-
. preston.
Growers Plan Larger Operations.
Losses of sheep growers in the lean
years-and they were heavy-practi-
a.. cally will be recouped before the spring
wool clip is disposed of and growers
are planning 10 strike out for new
and wider profits. Additional conf
dence has been given the wool grow
ers by the successful operation of pools
and cooperative marketing methods.
Moreover, the sheepmen have learned
the lesson Of economical production
methods.
"You cannot herd sheep from an
automobile was the way one Of the
largest Wyoming growers expressed it
TO the writer, and production costs
will be kept at the lowest possible
mark this year.
Farmers Raise More Sheep.
The increase in sheep population
will not be confined to the range dis
tricts Of the West, however. Thou
sands of farmers throughout the
southern, middle and eastern states
are adding from five to twenty sheep
49, tbair livestock holdings this year.
As a result of the keen demand it
is expected that some manufacturers
will advance prices on fall heavy
weight lines which have been with
drawn from the market since the an
nouncement of opening prices earlier
in the year. These advances will
probably affect duplicate business and
recorders for deliveries throughout
July, August and September. Account
will be taken in these increases Of
and the higher cost of raw wool.
Plan Aid to Grain Growers.
Efforts to secure for grain growers
a higher price for their products are
expected to result in the calling by
Governor Preus of Minnesota, of a
conference of governors of grain-grow-
ing states, to meet in Chicago May 1.
At that meeting it is expected that
systematic efforts will be inaugurated
to curtail wheat acreage TO a point
which would cut surplus above domes-
tic consumption to a minimum.
Automobile Prices Advances.
Officials of the Odds Motor Works
declared today that information given
out by the Detroit sales agents about
an increase in prices was unauthor-
lied. In common with other manu-
facturers they said the matter of high
er prices had been discussed, but the
company has taken no official action.
Other manufacturers still are anxious
ly sounding sentiment throughout the
country as TO price advances. Ford
is now well into the thirteenth month
in which sales of cars and trucks has
exceeded 100000 vehicles. Total Ford
production to date exceeds 7,270,000
cars, yet dealers stocks throughout the
country are practically exhausted.
Contracts have just been signed by
three Cleveland shippers TO furnish
the Ford plant at River Rouge with
100000 tons of iron ore. Although
the lake navigation season will open
aats TO upper ports this season, ore
shippers hope TO move between JJ,-
100000 and 100000 tons of ore be-
fore next winter.