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Show MII 8F SEP GOING ill RAPIDLY However, There Are Practically No Buyers in the Stale at This Time. Shearing throughout tho state Is going on at a rapid rate, and lhe flock masters aro confronted with a situation which they have never before been called upon to face. There arc practically no wool buyers In tho mate. There arc really but three buyers In tho entire state at the present time, and none are showing hardly a passing Inclination lo take on any wool. The price Is unsettled unset-tled and the situation already has become be-come ;i waiting game. The buyers naturally aro not inclined to take any wool until they see what the exact price will be. and they have no competition lo hurry them along In their purohases. The flock masters already al-ready have decided that they will only dispose of their wool In one of two ways. They will sell immediately or they will store their wool and wait till prices change. The third method of disposing of wool, namely, by selling on consignment. consign-ment. Is not approved by the flock masters, mas-ters, nor by the wool buyers, who see no profit In selling by consignment, cither for themselves or for the flock master! In such a case both loso on the proposition, proposi-tion, and neither Is satisfied. In oilier years wool buyers have been canvassing the state from four to six weeks before .a single pound of wool has been sheared. This year. flock masters declare, the wool produced in many sections sec-tions of the stale is extremely light and clean, because there has been practically prac-tically no hot weather to bring the oils from the animal's body Into the flcoce. LJuyerR who have visited several of the corrals In the stale affirm, however, that the wool Is dry and short this year, and for that reason, on the same market, it should nol bring the same price as last year's wool. A storm on the desert put a stop to shearing on Thursday and Friday, but the work Is, again In progress. Ford. five, miles west of Parowan. began be-gan shearing this week. Black Rock will begun shearing Saturday. Over 125,000 head of sheep will pass "through the corrals cor-rals at lilacK Rock. Milford has beer, j shearing for four days. Modona lost h couple of clays because of the storm. |