Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-26 | Page 7 | Veteran Utah Sheepmen Tend to Greet Conditions Calmly

I Their Flocks Roamed Ranges Long Ago I I ll r 6 F 4 7 f r 4 f S 6 y ys 2 s til s' s S. S S.'S f S 'S Ss ry s l lj j fr l 1 OLD TIMERS IN SHEEP INDUSTRY WHO HOLD VARIED VIEWS Lehi W. W V. V Jones 83 left John L. L Sevy 79 and J James mes Smith 73 Veteran Utah Tend Tendo I ITo To o Greet Conditions Calmly Two of the oldest attending this weeks week's wool growers growers' convention in Salt Lake City said Wednesday they weren't all worked up over present adverse conditions conditions' the sheep business is one of ups up and downs and they had seen a great many ups and far more downs in in the last half century f A third also with more than 5 50 years of experience in raising shee sheep in Utah wasn't so philosophical He said present conditions gave him hima a headache they had him so mixed up he didn't know where he was was one day to the next Those youngsters in there ther shouldn't take thi things gs so hard sal said Lehi W. W Jones 83 of Cedar City with a jerk of his thumb toward th the convention room in the Hotel Utah Id rather run sheep sh-ep now through a blizzard in a closed heated automobile automobile auto a auto auto- mobile over good roads than o on horseback or an open open buckboard over no roads at all His companion James Smith 73 also of Cedar City agreed Mr Smith and Mr Jones admired an electric sheep-shearing sheep device on display at the convention contrasting contrasting contrasting contrast contrast- ing it with a pair of old-fashioned old shears Old Shears Gone With this electric doo-dingus doo said Mr Jones you can shear 25 sheep a day The old fashioned shears will clip that that is they used to but we haven't got shee sheep like we used to have Both Mr Jones and Mr Lehi Leh have never strayed from Utah in their wool growing and they're no noso not so concerned about the market They had bad markets in the eighties eighties eighties ties and nineties too And range conditions still depend depend depend de de- de- de I pend on rainfall and the mortality of sleep sheep on the range still depends I on the weather remarked Mr Smith But John L. L Sevy of Salt Lake City 79 whose two sons are running running running run run- ning his sheep in Iron county said that in all his 59 years' years experience in the sheep business hed he'd never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen anything to beat present conditions conditions conditions con con- for absolute contrariness Comment Is Bitter Theres the new grazing act and we dont don't know what that's going going going go go- ing to do for us he commented with some Sime bitterness Theres that freight rate increase application Theres There's taxes tariff drouth and depression and theres there's our always always- Increasing overhead Here we were he went on selling selling selling sell ing sheep at 15 per hundredweight in 1928 and two years later we weren't getting more than 3 an anif and if theres there's any improvement in sight sigh I fail to see it it All three attended the Utah State Wool Growers' Growers meeting and said they will be equally punctual at all al sessions of the National Wool Growers Growers' Growers Growers' Growers Growers' Grow Grow- ers' ers association convention starting today