Show WYOMING IS GREATEST I PRODUCER OF WOOL BUTTE Mont Nov A A year a ago Wyoming claimed d distinction as the tho banner wool growing state of tho the union I because it produced pounds more moro wool in the tho grease than Montana I which before that time had bad always i made the heaviest production of wool in the tho grease But Wyoming last year was compelled to divide e honors with Montana because the fleeces of that state did not shrink as heavily as did the Wyoming product and the Mou Montana scoured wool production was pounds greater than tho the Wyoming scoured wool production For the tho refined refined re rc re- re fined wool pro product Montana received o as against 7 received re ye- by Wyoming But this year ac- ac to statistics received today by bythe bythe bythe the Miner from S. S Walker alker of the National National Na Na- and Wyoming Wool Growers' Growers association as as- sedatIon and tho the Wyoming state board of sheep commissioners Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- both in ming mint has surpassed Montana in the raso and wool products This year vear sheep were shorn in Wyoming the fleeces avera averaged ed ef eight ht pounds in weight ht and andI the total production of wool in the tho I grease greaso was approximately pounds Under washing this wool shrank to pounds which sold for 49 40 cents a n pound or in in all Greatly reduced prices prevailing this year resulted In the heavier 1908 tonnage 0 selling for or less than tho the 1907 1901 tonnage ton ton- nage nae |