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Show MONEY MADE ON WOOL ts YEAR; CLIP IS LESS, BOUNCES HIGHER H With a total output of 13,320,000 pounds, tho wool crop of Utah H in 1915, figured nt 24.5 cents a pound, amounted to 3.263,400. H Tub is an increase of 730,733 over the total value of 2,532,727 in B 1914. The total output is estimated by the department of agrlcul- B ture in a report given out from Washington last Friday. The esti- 8 tnato of 24.5 cents n pound as tho avcrago price realized by the b producers is named by C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utali Wool- Hi growers' association, as n conservative estimate. While the output of tho year shows a decrcaso of 3,604,852 V pounds from tho 10,884,852 of 1014, tho averago price paid for the m total output in 1915 shows an increase of practically nine cents H over the average price of 1014. Because of tho high prices paid for H , marketable sheep this year, it is csitmated by Stewart that the HH flocks of the stato now aro 5 per cent short of the mark at the H same time in 1914. However tho recent fall of snow has made the H Tango for the winter ideal and, with the outlook bright for high H prices in 1916, tho sheepman is thought to be secure of his share H of tho predicted national prosperity again in 1916. H Wool production in tho United States during 1915 is estimated Kgttf ty the department of agriculture at 288,777,000 pounds, with a r value of 67,573,814, or 14,000,000 more than 1914. Production V was 1,415,000 pounds less than 1914 and 7,398,000 pounds less m titan in 1913. Tho price of unwashed wool paid to producers has H averaged 23.4 cents per pound, compared with 18.4 cents in 1914 B and 15.7 cents in 1913. H Montana led in production with 29,040,000 pounds. Wyoming H was a close second with 28,682,000 pounds. Other .states protluc- H ing more than 10,000,000 ounds New Mexico, 18,621,000; Ore- H gon, 15,600,000; Ohio, 14,350,000; Utah, 13,320,000, and Califor- - nia, 11,59,000. |