Show den Gets Home Hone Office Officer I If f r Corporation Running Sheep I in Far Un laska Find Conditions in Aleutian Islands Better T Than an Anywhere re El Else e i in America DEN Jan 16 Tho Tho Aleutian ds as on the tIp Up of UntIe Sams Sam's lion islon in the northwestern cor- cor pf North America have bEen ht to Ogden In a business erg G t of ot speaking I of the Aleutian company which r ruses raises on m and is Is- x ot of f the Aleutian group group- has hns hast t 1 moved noved to Ogden with the oration cr creation or- or of a company here b by byn n Moore of Los Angel Angeles f JH H. H M M. Rowe Howe an Ogden wool s to be president of the Aleu- Aleu company which IsI is I up of many other Utah stock nan an Moore the organizer is tranger here for he built the nth n plant at Devils Devil's Slide and large arge circle of friends In Og- Og and nil nd Its vicinity prong mong those associated in the hw western estern wool growing industry are aro the Kiesel estate C C. C A A. A Da Day H. H C C. D. D Day Y ty 0 O. O B. B Gilson Charles H. H Barton H H. H M. M Rowe Howe James H H. DeVine DeVine DeVine De- De Vine Adam Patterson Lester Scoville ville me C. C Leonardt Leonardi of Los Angeles Lorenzo Smart S.-Smart S. S Smart of at Logan Charles Boettcher of Denver Fr Fred d HalTIng HalTIng- ton of Ogden Frank W. W Nixon of Salt Lake secretary of the company company com com- pany and C C. C W Nibley Sheep raising in Is la no experiment Mr Moore declares for the industry has been launched there long enough to prove that the islands are highly suitable for the flocks FAVORABLE FEATURES Features favoring the raising of sheep on the Aleutians were stressed by Mr 11 Moore He said Sheep men generally agree that It co costs ts from 4 50 to per head each year to run sheep on the western western western west west- ern ranges They must provide winter shelter and feed and require a herder to every thousand or or fifteen fifteen teen een hundred sheep In addition they must Invest large sums in n grazing l lands In the Aleutians such heavy Y expenses are eliminated as the sheep fed on native grasses grass s the year ear round There Is no ho land Investment One herder is required for about sheep Without attempting to tabulate the expense incident to running sheep on the islands the company has fixed 2 a head per perear year ear as the charge against its flocks Hocks It is clear then tha the Initial in- in saving on on the islands is between be between between tween and per head each year Sheep raised on the e western range gather large quantities of dirt and sand in the wool Such fleece leece will frequently carry from 60 to 75 71 per cent dirt and body grease Clean wool Is now worth approximately a pound Because of at the large content of worthless matter native wools sell at around 40 40 cents a poundOn poundOn poundOn pound On the Aleutians the sheep pick pickup up no dirt dust or burrs The wool contains not over 30 per cent dirt and body grease and consequently Is worth a great deal more in the open markets than Is mainland wool NO WILD ANIMALS Dogs and wild animals often kill 5 per cent of the sheep on the mainland mainland main main- land and notwithstanding the watchful rare oare given the flocks There aleno are ale areno areno no wild animals on the Aleutians Aleu and the only dogs are those at Dutch Harbor five eighty-five miles mUes away In all its estimates this company company company com com- pany has nevertheless allowed 5 per cent for s such ch losses Railroad d freights add to the cost of ot mainland wool and mutton the rate on wool from Idaho to Boston being about per hundred pounds Necessarily all this company's shipments must be by water and the he water rate from the Islands to Boston is a little m more e Ivan half the he Idaho rail rate The Boston BOton buyer can save well over 1 a hundred hundred hun- hun dred Ired pounds by buying Aleutian wool The rail rall freight rate even on lambs ambs from the Interior to the coast markets is a decidedly important item tern In in the cost st of spring lambs STE STEAMER MER SERVICE This company company can ship out ether wether lambs by trans-Pacific trans boats which pass within a af few w miles of the Island or by the Nome boats which touch at atthe aLthe the islands and land them hem at Pacific ports in less than thana a week at co considerably below the railroad charge from Int interior points Mainland sheep produce from seven to nine pounds of wool each per jer year suffering heavy losses from rom fleece coming in contact with wire vire fences bushes burrs and briars Aleutian sheep produce from nine to fourteen pounds of ot wool per year We Ve have no woo wool losses due duo to wire fences underbrush burrs etc ete Because of the cooler climate the sheep naturally produce larger arger wool ool crops Mainland sheep men figure about per head per year ear as a normal net profit from their flocks This company's operations on the Aleutians indicate that this net profit may be safely anticipated and that it has the further financial advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of ot low labor costs no land Investment r o winter feed no losses from predatory animals a and andol d dol ol of larger and cleaner wool crops Because of the character of the and the tho low freight rate it H Hhas has found buyers eager eager to purchase ase Its product PATTERSON VISITS Adam Patterson of of Ogden and Los Angeles visited the islands In Inthe inthe inthe the fall tall o of 1923 when 1630 sheep were landed on the islands without less loss after atel a voy voyage ge from S Seattle He says climatic conditions are l Ideal eal for sheep and he studied government govern govern- government m ment nt weather heather reports of the past eighteen years ears There Is s very little snow and It does not remain on the ground The rainfall Is about the same as that of oC Seattle The sheep graze on grass the year around |