Show WOOL GROWERS MEETING the meeting of the salt lake county Woo growers association held in the A 0 U W hall on went weak temple street tuesday afternoon and evening were well attended and full of interest to sheep men OBJECT OF THE association the object of the association aBBod atlon as set forth in the preamble Is as follows for the purpose of protecting the industry of wool growing in this territory for the of protecting the rights of persons engaged in this industry for the purpose of maintaining the vested rights in the use of the common range which have been acquired by the for the purpose of protecting ourselves against the enactment of laws which are designed to destroy our rights and crush our bustness and for the purpose of preventing the spread ot 0 public sentiment hostile to us and oui our welfare article 11 II still further emphasizes the objects of the association in its relation to the rights of individual inui vidual mem bers in the following words word n the objects of this association shall be to carry into effect the purposes above set forth to secure to the members as far as ros rossille Beible oo sible an equal participation in the benefits and in the work necessary thereto to defend the individual members from opposition of any kind and to make a common cause of auy any irjary or injustice inflicted upon a bembi r to protect the wool grower in the use of there the re the water coulsen courses and springs and in his right to the use of the public highway to provide a fund that can to ke bied at any time to defend a member in his rights or to prosecute to a final determination ip ID the courts of law for any injustice which may be committed on a member of this asso association clation pa THE BUSINESS transacted president M K parsons called the afternoon meeting to order and W H Haigh the secretary read a communication birom ff C shurtliff of evans ton tod wyo asking that a committee be appointed to confer with a like committee there in regard to damages done by utah sheep foraging in that quarter john C mackay urged that a committee of three be appointed to secure rights for the wool growers in weter weber wyoming mr shurtliff that the sheep growers of uintah county are the heaviest tx taxpayers payers in that county the sheep men pay 95 per cent of their stock while the cattlemen pay much less leae we want a in the ae legislature ia lature pa be said it it was ti brought rought out the discussion that nearly all the sheep on the ranges in western wyoming are owned by men living in salt lake county mr shurtliff continuing said that they could get an association of seven ty five members in uintah county to operate cooperate co with thil association here he said it would be necessary to hire the lawyers here as all the lawyers up there are owned by the hustlers 11 mr mackay moved that an advisory committee be appointed by the executive committee committe of three wyoming men and that committees be named in other places as the ex committee see fit the motion carried unanimously Pres president lueDt parsons j 3 abed that the bonds of the secretary and the treasur ers bonds of 1000 and 2000 respect had been filed with him and he be considered them ample mr tuft of the executive committee reported that they bad published it new book of the constitution and bylaws and that all the business firms which they thep had approached for advertisements ti a except one had tat taken en space mr pickard said they had rece received ivea 80 in advertisements and the cost of 1000 copies was but 40 leaving a balance in the treasury GOVERNOR THOMAS THANKED W li pickard presented the following resolution which was adopted the wool growers of salt lake county in convention assembled hereby tender governor arthur L thomas the thanks not only of the convention but the thanks of the wool growers at large for the veto of H P F no 65 passed last session by the legislature of our territory 4 and nd at the same time we heartily denounce the said legislature for their action in seeking the destruction of the most lost diversified industry in utah il ATTORNEY SIDNEY DARKE said that in all the history of the world mankind had bad banded itself together ther for self defense and protection in the course of his big remarks he be referred to the power of money as the armament that secures the rights of the association if any member of the association is aggrieved or wronged it la Is his bin business to report this injury or oppression to a member of the executive committee and if he has been injured he has the association back of him I 1 to defend his big interests four morn of the executive committee have power to use the funds of the abao tion to defend him he had he bean that in some of the outer counties tk sheep men had been prevented the u of highways the sheep men have much right to the highways as ate other man when god almighty alright y M up these mountains and turned the on edge so that grass could grow on t slopes he did not go to all this brou trou for the sole aole benefit of the cattle mei but for all alike the sheep man baal has much ri right to co gods grass as af any 0 oth man the public range is open it to alike unless it is fenced up if job jones claims to the land own he h haa a ao a patent for it any road open and use tor for seven years is under the law public highway and no man ha haa right to fence it up any beep ma can drive his hia flock over its it using etc diligence to not do any more ds daman to bis bia neighbor than he be can help whenever a judgment is gra grante against you by a country justice of afi peace it you are right appeal it to higher court or report it to the age adaoo tion and it will cairy it up it is ia eat that justice in some of the count lou districts has taken the ban bandage da g e off 01 on of her eyer edep aud and that she 1 looks ke at ta cattlemen with a kindly gl glance aiace the speaker devoted some sometime tinie urging the members to go to work aa elect selectmen to the county COU who are friendly to the elfeel inhere if they can get two selectmen butof out of t tl three they will virtually control county board send bend men he said earnestly c the he lexle legislature lature friendly to the sh industry your industry to la the L ond most moat important in the terr itoi second only to mining the mil mi industry bends bands men inen friendly Irl endly to rights and you should be via aa dills dil ot of your rights send men to the I 1 ie lature who believe that the sheep h the same right to the grass on mountain side as the cattle PRESIDENT CRANES ADDRESS W I 1 charles crane president of territorial association spoke as lowi low mr chairman gentlemen and JR pel wool growers frowert I 1 am exceedingly pleased to a meet with you and listen to word if not of inspiration at least of W win from the lips of those who are se seel by all honorable means for the u in ing edg of the wool growers of utah 1 you are gathered here today for afi purpose I 1 belie believe vp of perfecting a UH thorough organization off of the ww wo growers of salt lake county Y county now represents h head sheep and last season sold wool to i valuation of making y county chiru on the lafit as aa a W wo pyo producer ducer sanpete and iron c count ou a only kurpat surpassing sing you I 1 take lake ia it t T ever that while you should be pro of this g it does not rep lall all the wealth of the woollen wo olmen real ants of this county for tens of tho thou aids of sheep which are pastured pasture tj the mountains in diff rent parts of a only utah but the neighboring 13 and territories pay tribute to 0 or whose residence is to in your beai bea city hence this organization i bents nearly if not quite al whose owners will sell fully 8 pounds of wool valued at will no doubt dispose of bijj to jo the valuation of at least ff making a grand total of which goes into circulation among ab be people of your county tea the result of the industry I 1 carand md as is this showing gentlemen iou you are not satisfied and will not be worth of until you dispose of wool annually from salt lake county doue but this cannot be until you are 1 thoroughly u ehly organized for protective victory am aee for organization means which leads to prosperity anu and bor lat that purpose s Y ou are here today eternal vigilance is the price of liberty berty ll y l and you have had bad an exem rf leation of that fact a few months which to a race ce when our legislature our oar eternal disgrace was overwhelmingly democratic tried ao hard to ab soe ota fety tally and utterly destroy us and the moist with us no without exception industry in utah today biank god that legislature will never again meet to misrepresent their constituents and we should eternally and everlastingly thank god that we hed a governor whose heart was waa white whose hone head was level whose honesty doubted in ud and integrity can never be the caune of right and j justice ustice gover wt av thomas stood between us and truc action tion and when delegation after bakera aaion of would be law and asked him to U upon pon him affix his la signature TO co that in monstrous bu J he quietly told th em that this bill drive be rond our and destroy sheep and eairy wool cipry onvy ot of now thousands grower ana reduce prosperous contented happy people to 1 jamr jr J aau napoleon olace oace said that providence 14 wa aw on the side bide of the heaviest artil tery and will find that provi ez you aide of the 0 on oil d denee and protection are those thome who work constantly anti and bontly rot for the political politic all I 1 party that I 1 there gives here ves today have JM the protection we wool growers 1 I are a few democratic who are mt am sorry to aay gentlemen aso absolutely honest in their belief that our prosperity defends ds upon the success next november ce of the democratic party and with all good d feeling to that the late lame lamented anted these line I 1 will say aay democratic legislature used every endeavor to destroy us ex president cleveland le free wool message was wall aimed at our dent destruction ruction the mills JAU another democratic measure also lost last but and downfall aimed at our not least the springer free wool bill which has passed the house houf 30 and now awaits the action of the senate before being presented to the president for hh bit democratic signature these are all measures designed to place us in corn com onvil h the abor of au petition wi pauper republic the argentine chere here borders can be had for from 4 to 8 6 spanish money per month every measure aimed at our destruct alon comes from democratic sources and every measure for the advancement of our industry and the prosperity of our people springs from republican sources I 1 know orators from brorn the ahe democratic party will tell you that with woo wool ion on the free list we vve would re ceide more for our clips than we do to dagand in the same breath tell the toiling millions their clothing would be 50 50 per cent cheaper As ar I 1 speak the london sales of woo wool I 1 are taking place and yesterday X wool abr shrinking inking 20 per cent sold gold for sixpence three farthings far things or less than 14 cents now mr chairman add one cent for freight to this would make 15 cents the price which this wool would cost coat the manufacturers at the seaboard to it likely he would purchase our wool shrinking froni from 60 to 80 per cent trashy and broken in staple fibre fabre short and tai tag locks in it I 1 etc in preference to this beautiful skirted long stapled wool well hardly mr chairman the fact is our american wool asand always has been about double the price of the london wool shrinkage taken into consideration wools are always sold on their scoured basis and as our wool shrinks 60 to 80 per cent anti and is 1111 skirted while theirs shrink only 20 per cent their wool would even if it were admitted free be worth double what our would be then with wool on the free list lis lisowe twe 0 o would receive today from 6 cents to 8 cents perhaps per pound and I 1 ask you wool growers can you exist at that figure can you pay decent wages to decent men for shearing herding deping freighting etc in australia it costs 40 cents per annum to run each sheep this includes shearing herding clipping freighting sacking and laying the wool on the seaboard in utah it has always cost me 70 cents per head not including shearing dipping etc to run sheep in australia lia the average weight per fleece is eight pounds while ours is hardly six such being the fact gentlemen how can we compete with these men whose berds number hundreds of thousands where grass grads is perennial and where you eau cau lease lor for ninety nine years a hundred leagues for without protection we would be compelled to send our sheep to the shambles and when our flocks were destroy edour No factories tories 4 eilent and the wheels of industry clogged up would go the price of wool and clothing and then when tob tolate hute our democratic DemoL ratio friends would realize they had the wool pulled over their eyes and their reason stifled by fallacies which had no foundation found atlon ln facts gentlemen let me again urge upon you the necessity of taking a more active part in politics for the success of the republican party next november means conti aed protection which means continued prosperity to you all let each and every one of you put your bh shoulder to the republican banu badu wagon in national and state politics and at the next territorial election we w will send a delegate to congress who will be honest staunch and true to the policy of protection to every american industry WOOL SAMPLES FOR FOB THE WORLDS WORLD 8 FAIR mr crane at the request of prof sanborn Sau born who has charge of the utah exhibit of farm products product As at the world corids Is fair said that while the could not exhibit sheep they nevertheless the th eless legs wanted samples of the wol wo l i grown here ill 1 I propose to got get up a stuffed sheep and a banner of all the classes of wool grown in this territory for instance samples of ohe months month Is growth two months growth etc I 1 would like some fleece fr in every county in the territory it dont cost much I 1 think I 1 have a world beating fleece but I 1 may not be in it when I 1 got get to the worlds fair these thebe samples will be arranged in glass glaes came with thi the names of the growers grower the age and breed of the sheep on which it was wa grown mr tufts made a short speech in which he counseled the members to take a more active interest in elections and thought that the association would take a hand band in the election of the next legislature charles craft dOg suggestion of president Preside ut parsons was made an honor bonor ary member of the association TIME OF A motion to change the time of holding bolding the annual meeting from july to october was lest lc st CHARTER MEMBERS afthim Ar thiM edward J st john tooele thoele county Ander andersodn sOD enevold edevold west jordan blake janits gale beckstead Becka tead G F gale blake charles Charl ts gale bennied Benn iOD iov 8 S H Tayl taylorsville Taylors oreville ville i bennion alfred Tayl taylorsville Taylors oroville ville brown 0 C 27 E sixth south beckstead george W I 1 gale bowdidge john 8 city atty butterfield samuel herriman ht ariman ft beckstead eckstead gordon 8 gale burns robert G 1051 east third south dunkman Fun kman burns covey enoch east third south cochran Coc bran J M granger canning george city cochran matthew city condle peter S bros 54 south third west city albert east mill creek callister E H R fc bros box duncombe david west second north city day J JE E draper davis W P city davidson Davi daon walter east second south duncombe robert city dausie br bre a herriman day james H draper DA annsley Dnn sley Lisley W WJ J gale droubay paul erds erda tooele thoele county duncomb A AJ J 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