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Show WOOL SCOURING HILL Ad Enterprise Which Will Annually Be-tain Be-tain Thousands of Dollars in Salt Lake City. 1 MILL MAY BE BUILT ON JORDAN. Something of Vital Importance to the Wool Growers of Utah and the Adjoining States. The establishing of a wool scouring , plant in Suit Lake means tho annual saving of thousands of dollars to growers. grow-ers. Mr. S. S. Kvelaml of West Temple Tem-ple street is looking for a site suitable for such a plant and may possibly erect it next spring. Ho was formerly connected con-nected with the oldest wool house in the United States, and has a practical knowledge of the various brandies of tho business. Mr. Eveland last evening talked to a reporter on tho subject. "Ltah wool," said the gentleman, "is improving, and it is very good when ... scoured, and compares favorably with i 'oilier western wools.' The clip of last , year was .11,575,000 pounds and the ( 1 1 shrinkage was about 60 per oent. Of rl , All the Wool Shipped Ka.t J j the shippers paid about $135,000 freight ! . on the dirt in the wool, calculating the ' dirt to weigh 0,000,000 pounds. By - having a scouring mill here all this money would be retained in Salt Lake I and Utah. The wool could be sold at home, command higher prices, and the commission houses which handle it I would thus be deprivod of their busi-' busi-' ness to a considerable extent. I "An object of the enterprise is to es- I tablish a trade direct with the manu-f manu-f ' facturers. Some of the most prominent prominent manufacturers in the east are willing to make a trial of the matter mat-ter on a cash basis. A first class plant will cost from $50,000 to $100,000 which includes working capital. The mill could be erected on The Itank ol the Jordan as an excellent supply of water Is obtainable ob-tainable which is necessary. From two to three gallons of water art required to clean one pound of wool. 'The wool is put through three waters wat-ers before it is thoroughly cluaned. liet la tliA ant r ntn wliura fliu anr vices of the soap taster is brought into play. He does not eat the soap but simply tastes it to ascertain that the soap used is free from alkaline properties. prop-erties. The second and third waters are the rinsing. The water must be of an exact temperature or tho wool will be injured to a great extent. Wool is dried by placing it on grates and using the hot air process, care being exercised exer-cised to turn it constantly. Then it is spread out in a room and allowed to .... cool. Unless the wool Is thoroughly Dried and Cooled ISefore packing it will lose in value. Tho re-. re-. fuse from the scouring is an excellent fertalier and in the east is sold for this purpose. It possesses properties which enables sandy laud to assume solid proportions. pro-portions. "The machinery for the mill will either come . from Philadelphia or Massachusetts and will weigh from tun to fifteen tons. By the erection of a . scouring mill new woolen factories may be established and goods manufactured here for home consumption. Thus in-duntries in-duntries of a stable character would very materially contribute to the prosperity pros-perity of the city. It has been stated : that . the adjoining states annually , supply about 30,000,000 rounds of Wool Which undoubtedly would be brought here and scoured and sold at from fifty to ixty-five cents per pound. In the east the cost of scouring wool is from one to one and a half cents per pound. "In an enterprise of this kind the growers should remember that they will save money by having their wool Bcoured here. It will be free from all dirt and trash and fetch a higher price in the market. Foryears and years the shippers have been paying freight on tons of dirt, sent east with the wool and they will possibly have au opportunity to arrange this item in a new way and reduce their expenses of freight. About t00,000,000 pounds of dirt have been nt east siuce the shipping of wool Rah from Utah. This represents mil-Ions mil-Ions of dollars which could have been tept in Salt Lako." |
