Show VALUE OF THE UTAH DESERT FOR GRAZING supplies more forage than does all the alfalfa fields now under cultivation at a I 1 lecent meeting of the wool men of utah jan C bukay argued that the present administration would do nothing definite with the tariff question in sufficient time to ibe be of any help to the wool growers of the united states this year and advised storage of clips until it was apparent what was going to be done Secie tary C D B stewart fc said the clouds of uncertainty were obscuring the situation on the western wool men so HO to place themselves thema elvea that they would not be victims of market situations mr stewart also said eald conditions are somewhat differ ent now from what they have been former national adminis tra eions the ool grower 1 is now corn coin polled to pay 2 for grazing land for every 1 I 1 that tie has invested in sheep it Is now merely a question its as to whether we should arrange tor for tile the storage of our wool in order to got get the best beat price possible for the product or be compelled to sell fiell at it ruinous sacrifice while in need of the necessary money to continue our business geographically utah is 1 and always will be one of the chief wool growing states in the union we have here a desert which supplies llo moro more actual forage than do the alfalfa fields that are under cultivation this desert land can never be b made to produce timber nor any othet other product than that which is in native to it and which Is now made to austila great numbers of sheep producing a great share of the wool and mutton of the united states this region Is brini bringing ging fth forth f th the best beat that it ean can bo be made mada to produce and it Is our duty to take such euch steps oa as will cause the sheep industry to enrich the state abate to the fullest extent J D holliday spoke effectively on wool storage et orage which he declared in 1 the issue at present and preparing and packing fleeces for tahe market must lie be brought up to the high standard of modern methods mr mackay said ald it the homo demo cracy puts into practice its ita pet pat theories the orlea concerning free wool free sugar free lead and currency reform e shall bave just such another time OB as we had it in 1803 because of uie uncertainty which now exists here concerning tariff on wool we find no aai buyers in the london markets tile the reason for this being that manufacturers in this country ure are holding off in the hopert hope of buying tai iff free ool from foreign prodoc chiq this already has a ten tendency denicy to ito depress the wool situation in the united states forced selling has hae been our undoing in similar timea in the past and it is our business to safeguard ourselves against repe tit ion of that ruinous process e is another illustration which may be applied here it Is associated with u subject that Is stirring the entire country from its ita chief executive to its most humble citizen president taft baft toad had a commission appointed to make inquiry into the high cost coat of living and the muse cause to abnormal prices in the main has been found to be due to the of the middleman it is 1 not the cost of the product in the first instance that brings the price so high but the repeated commissions that are added to this origin 1 al I cost coat in transit ot of the product from the be producer to the consumer |