| Show A MIDDLEMANS VIEWS w Facts for the Consideration of our Wool Growers To the Editor of THE HERALD In your last weeks issues you gave a good deal of space to our wool interests which their growing importance certainly cer-tainly deserves Prominent among the items published was the report of the organization of the Wool GrowersAsso ciation of Southern Utah The purpose pur-pose of this article is to correct some i errors prevalent in the public mind regarding re-garding the profits of the woolshipping business The five years preceding 1885 were nearly barren of profitable results as every firm engaged in the business then could certainly prove A nuni ber of favorable causes among which were the excellent condition of toe clips and a steadily advancing market made the year of 1885 for the first time after many years a more profitable season Utah wools netted them all through in the eastern makets about 1Y cents while their local coat averaged close on to l i cents When one considers that such profits are the exception and much lower results re-sults the rule a net margin of about L 1A cents per pound or about 10 per cnt can hardly be called exhorbitant Do our southern growers know that it frequently requires nine to ten months to wind up a seasons business and receive final returns while the woolgrowers receive cash on delivery Do they consider that wool is permanently perma-nently a speculative article and as such subject to a declining market as well Do they realize that our wools are i bought by the manufacturers on a scoured basis their actual merits and not discriminately in the grease as our local buyers do often regardless of shrinkage and condition but always in the sellers favor The advance in wools abroad has reduced the importation of foreig wools and woolen products considerably con-siderably and thereby given a firmer tone to our domestic wools Utahwools of ISSli being unusually earthy and sandy and not of as good quality as neretoiore woum nave turneu out an unprofitable venture again were it not for that advance The shipping of wool by growers themselves evading the much abused 4 middleman has been experimented upon many times before One ot our leading growers an intelligent gentleman went for nearly the entire season to one ot the eastern markets several years ago to i look after the sale cf his wools and the disposal of a number of clips consigned to him by other growers The result could not have been very gratifying as the gentleman has since abandoned shipping and is glad to get a remunerative remuner-ative price at home where keen and increasing competition amone local and foreign buyers secure to the trower top prices There is no instance on record when a grower or a number of growers repeated the experiences of shipping except in cases when clips were very undesirable and therefore were not much sought after by local dealers This would go to show that the middle mans money is after all not such a bad thing for the grower J FACTUJI |
