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Show SAYS PRODUCTION WILL INCREASE WITH CO-OPERATION J. L. Halman, who declares that there Is no good reason why the west should not.be producing more wool than it ever has" before, instead of less, and be getting get-ting :t better price fnr it. is in the city to attend the corning convention of the National Woolgrowers' association and the I'tah "Woolgrowers' association to dissemimitc tiie propaganda of unity and co-operation. Mr. llnlman snys thai the cause for the decline in the amount of wool production produc-tion in tli? west and the reason why wool from outside countries commands a higher price than t It at of this country is due to lack of unity and co-operation bt ween the wool men themselves, be-rwTn be-rwTn the woolmen and the mills, and to tne machinations of the buyers ami deal-. ers, whom he classes as "wool gamblers." gam-blers." The time has come for the woolmen of the west to awaken to the fact tfiat their industry is being seriously threatened, threat-ened, Mr. Halman declares, and he proposes pro-poses to do his part toward' awakening them. "The maior portion of the intermoun-taln intermoun-taln region," said Mr. Halman, "can produce pro-duce just as fine a grade of wool as Australia Aus-tralia ever produced, and there is no legitimate reason why it should not be producing this sort of wool. There is no reason, also, why there should not be a standard ization of wool prices, so t ha t the wool producers will share alike In the just profits of their industry, instead of being the victims of wool gamblers in this respect." Mr. Halman has compiled some figures on the production of wool in the west in 1IU7 which are of interest. The total production is shoown to be liSS.nns.noO pounds, which is considerably less than it was even ten jears ago. instead of showing show-ing a healthy increase, as it might naturally nat-urally be expected to do. The wool production pro-duction in California lat year is less than half what ft. was in lSi;i, more t,han twenty years aco. The production In Montana fell off more than 1.000,001- pounds in one year. In Oregon it has fallen off more than li.uOO.noo pounds in the past twenty years. Mr. Ha! ma ii cites these figures to arouse the woolmen to the seriousness of the sit nation facing I hem and in an effort, lie says, to awaken them to t lie necessity for unity and co-operal ion to build up and lmpro e their industry. |