Show I THE WOOL BUSINESS As a matter of absolute justice to to sh and kind we publish the f following c Editor Edit r Evening Telegram Presuming that that many man manof of JQ yom n lumer numerous us readers arc are of the tho tb that Ut h is about an al a average of the western woof wool producing states from the tho of wool n and that conditions condi condi- tons a as in t your roul editorial of 5 capt cap cap- t C s As It Seems to U Us are arc i L fair sample oi of I generally generall pre throughout th adjoining tf states y I 1 beg to offer the following no for the purpose of criticising crit- crit what you have said about the Utah pa particularly but with view to explaining tho ho vast difference dif dif- if- if ference between bet auch uch conditions wherever they may exist and conditions actually existing in Utah's sister and next door neighbor state Wyoming our naton nations nation's 8 banner wool and nd mutton mutton producing producing state if you please The rue wool grower ro cr of Wyoming is just as much in need 0 of of and just as much entitled to protection to his the chief industry of this thi fair state as are the wool growers of Vermont Vermont and Ohio or any other othel state in n tho the union We Ve will wi admit that there arc ari not not lany nany shoei shoel grown or Of much wool produced et upon hind al carrying a value of OO OOpal peT per pal aero in Wyoming for tho one onerea rea of that lands lards in our pur OUT state have not not reached that value valne but the very b best t lands in the state are being ein utilized in connection with the sheep business and instead of running our free of expense except that of a sh sheep p herder upon the untaxed public domain domal as YOU von state is s the case in iii 1 Utah we have hundreds who feed feed their sheep upon their farms during winter and more more than a few who own from two to live of land for avery sheep they ther own Tn regard to quality of our ou product bv hy comparison suf suffice fice it regard to say that the writer wrier was on th tho the Chicago mar market et etin in In October and November with Wyoming range 1120 lambs Jambs that brou brought ht 6 W. W while whilo the tho very verv vel best thoroughbreds Ohio and ind eastern easter st states tes could could- coul m muster ster did not bring a above oye 7 per poun pounds s. s better breeding I stock Jre re ire to tn bo ho had than wo we use our flocks focks though bred largely largey for range purposes are unsurpassed in quality The wool growers of Wyoming heartily appreciate the work done by bv our con congressmen in nse of the tho tariff tar tar- iff if if schedule on wool in explaining io Ia the tariff revision com corn arid and ald to the country at large the con conditions as they actually exist pertaining to o our industry str and some sonic how too we take it that even eyen the thE con congressmen from Utah havo have a lar larger er interest at stake stAke than the te mere protecting of a handful t of Utah flo while lending lending lend lend- ing their support to o the P Payne Aldrich ne bill bi If I it ft is a fact that the of sh eplen you s-ou on mention menton are growing rich faster in Utah th t are arc al any other men we hope they are arf in the lar large e mi mi and that they do rio not represent the tIle wool growers your ton congressmen o hr been trying to legislate for We are pleased to report that the tIle nomadic tax dodger is almost a thin thing of ot the the past pastin in on our r state whether there is incurred in incurred in in- With Wit reference to an any expense in running sheep in this int country other thail a I sh ep herder herdern n I would like to offer an extract extract ex ex- tract tak n from tho the sworn testimony of a H responsible wool rower grower of our st state te who wn Wr a witness before tho the United trower States senate enate committee while considering the sheep business business busi busi- ness and schedule K in relation to the cause ase of the tho higher cost of in 1 living last sprint EXAMPLE Tt It I rends reads 3 as follows With Wih apologies to the committee I J will wi offer the following fol fol- fol- fol f lowing lowin example which h is s is taken fro from l own personal experience durin during a a. period of ei eighteen months from tho the thop spring ng of 1905 to fall 1906 J Cr Cr- p i r Ir in Spring prin of 1905 4 I 0 ewes ewes and lambs 1 at tt SprIg shearing time a at t 0 2601 60 l 0 Sold in fa fall of 1905 1375 sheep at f Omaha market ct 48 Sold in spring mar of 1906 1903 1300 pounds pounds' of of r wool at nt 20 cents cents Sold Rod in in fall fal 1906 sheep sleep at at 4 O. O 5 Cost to run herd ner 12 montis months months- spring 1905 to 1906 at based upon unon average number of grown sheep of 3 OO Cost Cos Cost to to torun run 2 summer herds about bout from spring to fall 1906 based upon grown sheep at 1 1 J 2447 r 4 j- j l r T v j j Gross profits profit on for IS 15 months months Allowing at least 1 l of the selling price i V of each of the sheep sold was due to the increasing value of sheep upon t tho ho market increasing We find my profit profi on an investment of nearly neary reduced to or about 2 per cent on the investment Wo We also aso find that it actually cost 20 cents per pound to produce wool from front this acuay flock and we further find that by bv adding a u reasonable rate of interest such as the witness winess paid at that time of 10 per por cent on the investment investment investment in in- vestment the necessary rost ost to produce a pound of wool would have been more moro than 25 cents cent From 6 13 this example as DR fro from l o h submitted the witness wit ness hopes hopes' to e explain that no part of of the present high cost ost of wool and mutton should be he charged to the pro pro- ducer Witness further submits that under present present conditions conditions conditions con con- will be to reductions it wi imposible prevent gradual in the production of wool and l mutton muton in th the open range states accompanied naturally by increased prices of these commodities If the tho writer wrier cn could feel feol that your our m nv readers outRide outside out out- I I Ride side of Utah especially in the east would appreciate the ftc I lo local nl provocation cation which almost s se seem m to threaten to make a free trader out nut of nf the tle worthy editor of of- tho the Salt Sal Lake EVENING TEI TELEGRAM RAl or if you had included Wyoming with Vermont Ohio and other great states worth mentioning mention mention- mentIn- mentIn in ing as wool and ind nd mutton muton pro producing states worthy of tariff protection this clumsy article artice would perhaps have never been written but your l long ng jump ump to too the east enst to find a state state worth considering from the standpoint of tariff protection made us lonesome and the above is the tho result I wish wis to say in in closing losing that I T believe behove mot moat mort of tho the above will Wll apply to Idaho Idabo Montana and anI other western w wool ol producing states A WYOMING SUBSCRIBER Cokeville Dec Dee 7 7 1910 |