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Show : I : if - i'hii uyl pm$ : ' III ikte WOOL POOL HELD SAT. IN DUCHESNE Scenes of the wool pool at Duchesne Saturday. The wool, from farm flocks, has been contracted for sale to R. C. Elliott G Sons, Salt Lake City, delivered at Duchesne, for 61 12$ per lb. , about 5 l2fr higher than range wool. This wool price is 62 cents a pound delivered to this company in SLC. Phillip Moon, Duchesne, president of the Duchesne County wool growers Assn., states that the pool, organized through this association, has contracted 43,000 lbs. of this year's wool. Part of this poundage pound-age was delivered at Duchesne Saturday, May 7, and the remainder is to be "pooled" here May 20, at the old Duchesne Duch-esne Ward building, near Vern Bromley's Conoco Service Station. Mr. Moon reports so far 20 farmers and ranchers are organized in the pool - from the areas of Tabiona, Mt. Home, Bluebell and Duchesne. |