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Show SALT LAKE CITY, INDUSTRY'S CENTER, SAYS HAGENBARTH In his response to the address of welcome wel-come today. F. .1 HnRenharth ald. Beyond riust!nn t n day which stands forth brightest and reddest In the history of the e-stok conxentlons held "n tn-American tn-American continent are those days in January. when the National Lie- I Stock convention convened In this city, j "The Cltv of opportunities." No ?u h gathering of th "Sons of the !eert" had I ever before, or has ever slm e. been seen. no uch enthusiasm was ever aroused, no such entertainment was ever afforded, and no such work was ever done. Your men proved themselves Renerous. your women were noted an the best entertainers entertain-ers and the most lovable In the land. Therefore. -It Is peculiarly fortunate that at this time your beautiful cltv. shrouded in Its mantle of white, surrounded sur-rounded bv Its majestic peaks, and resiling resi-ling up against the bosom of Its mother, the Great Salt lake, should have been again slerted as the scene of the second birth of the greater and greatest National Wool-Growers' convention. Oldest Organization. This association ranks as the oldest national na-tional live-stock organliation In the United Uni-ted States. It was orlglnaJly nearly half a century ago. and It Is a splendid commentary on the steady persistence of the patient shepherd, surviving aa It has. through all strife and dissension, to this auspicious and enthusiastic day. Twenty-nve yeara ao the center of the wool Industry was located far eaat of the one hundredth meridian. At that time Ohio. Pennsylvania. New York. Kentucky and Indian espoused the cause of Abraham Abra-ham and Isaac, and their flelda were dotted dot-ted with flooka. The scene has shifted. Today, among the lofty peaks and amlllng valleys of the area tributary to the Rocky I mountains. Ilea the ahrlne. o fine "Golden Fleece." Through the pralrlea and over the hills of Montana. Wyoming. Idaho and your own fair State gambol the silver hoofs of many millions of God's gentlest animal creatures. - Purine all these yeara no Industry baa been eo called upon to withstand ao many political hufTetlngs. Like a shuttlecock has the Isaue of "free" or "protected" wool been tossed back and forth. Else of Industry. Nothing daunted by their severe pol'tl- , .(Cn.tiaued. on Page 10. SHEEPflEN HERE (Continued from P 1.) N eaJ misfortunes, the brave shepherd left their early home where condition on hlffh-priced land bad become inipoMlble and souxht new field of endeavor. They cast their area to the Rocky mountain and treat American desert, where. struj;-Un struj;-Un manfully, aWay from the haunt of men, contending- aralnst the adTerae conditions con-ditions of anolvUUation. oftentlmea away from the railroads and cities, they hare built up In alienee and solitude one of the strongest and stablest Industrie of the western half of the American continent. No tribute too great can be paid to the early pioneers In the wool business. Those brave men who biased the trail for the civilisation which followed have made possible the discovery of our mines and are primarily responsible for our present aaricultural development which is the pride of the Nation. ' Started Agriculture. In the beautiful valleys of the inter-mountain inter-mountain country the energetic farmer first attempted agriculture in the raising of alfalfa and other hay and grain his only market being afforded In those early days by the flock-neater, who purchased his products in order to insure safety for their flocks during the winter months. On this humble foundation has since been erected our magnificent agricultural structure, producing- Its thousands of tons of train, vegetables, sugar, fruits and canned products. The sheepman's money has been spent at home; no dividends have been sent abroad; his balance has swelled your bank statements; his surplus has erected your buildings and beautified your cities. The great Salt Lake valley Is the center, cen-ter, geographically, of that tremendous grailng area extending beyond the eastern east-ern slope of the Rockies1; westward Including In-cluding the Sierras: to the grassy pas-tores pas-tores of Canada on the north, and southerly south-erly to sunny Mexico. Profit to Salt Lake. Tht this city has profited financially, socially. Intellectually, from its connection with the wool Industry, facts amply Justify. Jus-tify. Some of our best cltliens have been and are shepherds. Wyoming has given you CosgrllT. Noble and Savage; Idaho has glvVn you Mrs. Fred Oswald and J. D. Wood: Nevada has given you Mrs. Bonnemort and W. a. MrCorntck. and in I'tah you have suh stalwarts an Ri-, Movie. Saunders. Knollln. Hanauer and Sharp, and th list could Indefinitely extended. Nor has the flockmanter's Influence In-fluence hen felt and services rendered locally alene. He has occupied the ?tate and national stances. Idaho has Its Gov. Ooodlnjr; oMntana has Its Senator Power: New Mexico has Its Gov. Otero; Nevada has its Senator Nixon, and Wyoming Wyo-ming Its Senator Warren. ' Those engaged In other lines of endeavor en-deavor should not at this time cast envious en-vious eyes upon the woolmen because of their present pronperlty. They should remember re-member that wool has been the last of the staples to respond to the -fnaglc touch of the wand of prosperity. They must remi-mher the years of travail and hanging hang-ing on. with the last remaining strength in their finger tips, through which they have gone, and at times not yo far dlr'-tant. dlr'-tant. Change In Methods. Like others of our fellows, as time went hy we have learned. In the olden days It was not uncommon to see the Western mutton product consist of three. fou and five-year-old wethers, too young to die and too tough to eat. Todav SO per cent of the totaJ mutton product of the Western States Is marketed In the shape of milk fat lamhs. young and toothsome and cheap! In the past wool has been sent to market not with a view to quality, but rather thinking of quantity. The honest shepherd bin(t In a. hurry, seldom took time to remove the foretg-n substances, sub-stances, and It was not sn uncommon thing to find sagehnish. or other cholc natural specimens. lime rock, or even common dirt, tangled up with 'heir fleer Todav. knowlr.K that If pays be.i. he send hi goods to market clean. well grown, honestlv packed, and sometimes properlv graded, so that his products mav enter the mills direct He even goes so far as to ronsclent louslv deduct four pounds tare for sacking and twine from each bag of wool, not wtt hsTandlng tha' the sack has cost him In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of half a dollar It Is no uncommon thing toda to find on our Western ran(f Hampshire, rn's-wolds rn's-wolds and Shropshire imported from nM Enrland. and porsets and Cheviots from Scotland, and Ramboulllet s from France the former breeds In order that mir mutton mav he better, and the latter in order that our wool may be longer. Lesson of Experience. All of these Improvements at the present pres-ent day have been brought about from the lessons taught by experience, and our chief teacher has been Just gatherings as this; through the exchange of Ideas and experiences we have mutually learned, and profited. But over and aboV all Is the fact that from actual visual observation observa-tion we have seen the fat and fine sto.'k shows display what can be done In the wav of producing both quality and quantity quan-tity of flesh and wool. have learned at the shows In Chicago. Kansas Clt. St. Joe and Ienver. and now we are being taught by object lessons at home, and we hope that In time the fat and flue stock show annualiv held In this splendid i I'y shall be second to none However, after all has been said and done, tht greatest era In the live-stock business has but Just begun. The future holds much for us to do. and many problems prob-lems loom up that must be met and solved Our wools must not onlv be graded at home, but they mus' likewise be sro'ircd. sp'in Info yam. and woven into coth Todav we ship the raw mi-terlal mi-terlal to the Kastern S'ates. tomorrow 'o be shipped back to us as fln'sh! products, pro-ducts, the consumer paving the freights and profits both ways We feel tha' the area for which this cltv Is the distributing distribut-ing point will in time consume all the wool grown within it Our mutton is shlrr'1 eastward to b fattened, killed and returned to us for consumption under un-der the same conditions Your farmers In Salt Lake valley can fatten our feeders, feed-ers, s.nd your packers can property care for and distribute the carcass All of these things have been done elsewhere, and you can do them here. Great Future Prospects. It should not requl-e stronr apuments to convince the energetic people of Salt Lake that the development which I have heretofore outlined is not only posslb and feasible, hut that In this favored section sec-tion It will come to pnss. Glorious as has been Its history and present status, the future prospects of the wool-growing and mutton industry are an inspiration. Your Kreat city of Salt Lake is the center of a radial system sys-tem of railways; it Is the hub of the Western railroad world: you have the Oregon Sbort Line, the 1'nion Pacific, the Southern "Pacific, the Rio Grande, and San Pedro already built, and the Western Pacific and Moffnt lines bulldlna;. thus enabling; en-abling; you to reach every State and every city in the Intertnountaln area and beyond. be-yond. With this as the great renter of the production of raw materlaj. why should it not also be the center of manufacture manu-facture and distribution of our finished products? It seems that we can see. stretching In the vista of the future, endless blocks of substantial buildinars wherein is given employment to thousands of laborers who are dally turning out wool and meat products pro-ducts enough to feed a nation. We can see vour farmers converting their sagebrush sage-brush lands Into waving fields of peas, multi-colored and delighting the eye with their beauty and scenting the air with their sweet fragrance, but to be later converted Into pea-fed mutton, which frill turn Colorado green with envy, greener than her alfalfa fields. Senator Smoot and Jim Ieary have made a good start one with a woolen mill, and tne other with a packing plant. We will all put our shoulders to the wheel and help them boost, whether we come from Utah or not! I |