Show our ou r wool industry talk ghen at lions club wool program by lion my duke manager J 0 C penny company the use of woodby man antedates recorded history the nomadic madic tribes that peopled the earth thousands of years ago utilized their sheep flocks for coinage cloghn clot hn and food biblical references to sheep in the book of genesis va where here in the 4 42 2 Is found and abel waa was a keeper of but cain was as a tiller of the ground and in process of time it came to pass that caen of the fruit of ot the ground an offering ott ering unto linto the lord and abel he also brought the firstlings ot of his flock and of the fat and the lord had respect ct unto abel of his but unto cain and to his off offering ering he ile had not respect in about 2000 B 0 there began in egypt the dynasty of haskos the shepherd kings king divid D under tinder whom tl tre tle e hebrews found their empire waa was a shepherd cloth beav weaving was an important art in the roman when the romans invaded britain a half century before christ they reared a factory at M inalie for the manufacture ct ef booler cloth Brit britain ains s aalst mo st climate chilled the legions from the warmer italy and warm marm clonts and tunics were wel sel corned coined by troops the barbaric sax ons who next pre empted england were ignorant of spinning and weaving and it was not until after the norman william overthrew the saxon harold at the end of the Illee nth century that cloth mak ing was resumed in britain iho the great english woolen guilds were ere established in 1300 for centuries they were a power in british affairs in 1350 a guild member in thomas blanket invented the utilitarian commodity that bears his surname ir the anti ry the im arion cf tf the NeL netherlands herlands by the bp allish and the subsequent persecution ot of the people caused thousands of the latter including the expert wool weavers then the best in the world to migrate to england in 1764 the first spit ning j rny was built it was as the product of J jamea ames of blackburn england and operated eight spindles the invention came through an accident hargreaves P a carpenter happened to tio stumble agal against list the saxony spinning wheel b belonging to his wife in repairing it the thought occurred to him that by setting the spindle ver tica 1144 11 1 might be adapted to work upon the manifold system ills 1113 fifth jenny buhe in 1763 1766 op aerated one Ittin drel spindles he lie mobbed by indignant spinners who may or nay not have envisioned the economic evils of mass production the me roller sp ap nning frame Is said to have been evolved by arkwright the frame waa was driven by waterpower water ater power and tac tact mies were built on tha banks of sir streams earris A decade later came the spinning mule a combination of the jenny end the frame rame dr edmund cartwright a ft kentish clergyman with mchan cal leanings invented the machine loom drivel by water shortly aftem afterwards ards samuel Cur iliffe la sacr devised the wool ool combing machine completer comple tir tirs the me mechanical cacie between the raw product and the finished cloth all ahli occurred between 1770 and 1785 when the robots were yoked to the within contraption cont that jamea janies watt had dedicated to industrial progress the me steam engine the career of wool u ool in this untra dates fram uie me importation of a small alck flock of sheep into jamestown virginia from england in 1909 dy by 1649 according to the only ly authentic records available there wen em I 3 ODD sheep in the colonies in its 1656 the colonial government of enacted a statute requiring each family faintly to spin three of wool cotton or flax a week meek tor for thirty weeks bach in the same year the first weaver to settle in massachusetts began oceia opeia eions at lowell losell lie ile was tendered official encouragement in the form of a grant of thirty acres because bemuse egland had forbidden the export of textile machinery heavy pen alVes belne being tor for violation the united states dl di erectly after tho the nevol involution lution was h hard d put to secure tire essential equip ment to meet the rapidly growing apparel requirements of the young notion in 1778 jeremiah wadsworth Wa deworth fretted the first woolen factory in thia this country employing more than one loom in 1790 there were ere circe woolen mill mills in operation with mith a total capacity of about 15 yards per tear car valued at 73 at daf hyfeld eld mas mass in 1784 1794 the first incorporated woolen company WM established in the united states english operatives were ere in charge in 1804 this factory pro from fine wool the first american made broadcloth the wool came from the first full blooded stock ram kept in this country they were ere maintained from loot 1801 to 1805 on the farms of M dupont de nemours and it de lessert on the river in 1810 M dupant dupont erected woolen on the brandy inc ine m where here lie utilized the wool of these tiocka sheep raising spread from the eastern seaboard on f r fairly lane larie scale alone along about 12 1621 alien the ute opening of the erie canal male the fertile pasture londa lands f the valle the year 1825 also marked the arst use of leorns for brood clotha sup bior PI woo acott cotton on warp drap imp and fancy cloths the were mere made by tile manlutac Manu tac fac turing company the looma blooma were mere steam driven tho the use of steam tor for woolen mills having been introduced into this country in 1 1812 at pro evidence and find Middlet middletown omil in 1833 the ohio canal opened up lip etli ft 11 more territory for sheep raising and in 1849 during the gold rush sheep made their pacific coast debut by IM 1640 the there were nearly 4 eshrep in new Enfil Engi Anil and hm over 7 in the middle allan atlan tio states up to the tane of the civil war sheep raising mie n grew rapidly in the middle west and in ta tro a north central states but declined in all other parta parts of the country the effort efforts of courageous american manufacturers to cope with foreign com competitor during the first half halt of the nir century in JR 4 story rich in heroism but poor in profits between IMS 1845 and 1850 prance france filled the country with III it seline de laInes aid cash meres merel english manufacturers rr tempted the american market va th inexpensive of hew thelie mat ermala american mills entered into that competition with great test zest and broadened their market ap 01 weca bly the p tn in that production was john marland harland of ual bal lar carville ville mass malls the granduncle grand uncle of franklin W lIc bbs president of tho the art arl agton mills in 1650 1850 the value of the minu fractured wool products in this mis country was 13 43 52 an increase of more than that one hundred per cent since the first official wensiu of ahls th s production pro ducton taken li 1810 the number of woolen plants of all oil kinds exel exclusive ushe of mills vat mat 1420 in 1810 1840 eight per cent of these were ere located in massachusetts new york connecticut ver mont and Penn silvana by 1850 the number had to 1559 1 scattered over thirty two states in the union the capital Irv eted in mills in that leor mos more than arny eight million IV ion colars del ars approximately forty thou sand send workers were mere employed td and end value of thu the product wa as tn in excess of forta tort ahr three pl million illion dollars the average output per mill being the of 27 ON 1 tho ir industry achieved imposing proportions by 1680 1880 here axe the tor for that yea mills 2009 2689 of aich were full ng and carding plants worker workers caal pi tal infested Ini ested IND W wages value of Virlo product duct there WM as a ast sst increase in the number ot of sheep in the ule pac pacilio ilic southern and rocky intha antl unu 1801 1881 akur atur that in were shown in the rocky mounta n states alone the nation a flock reached its it peak milk in 1093 when the total woe was ee se cn million above the total tow on january lot of this oils year the trend haa has been upward during the past pas t six years the number ot of sheep end and lambs on farms and ranges in the tho un ted states according to hie department of estimate ns as of c january 1 1031 1931 wa was tv prell mnary tabulation by n 1 a e dureau bureau of census of the 1030 1930 census of manufacturers flies even the value of woolen and orsted goods fob f 0 b factory price prices na As thir li Is the me product of about amen mills the value added by the fabricating of these tho materials into apparel and ther other merchandise Is in the ne of three hundred million dollars when every primary arl beconi ary division w tl th the bretal phase Is considered it Is a fair estimate that n tp billion dollar annual turn oer over ie Is attributable to bool ool wool from grona to retailing retelling affords a livelihood for tully fully three mallon in illon persons in this country lera lets than to tuo hundred thour family brea breadwinners dinners are amplo employed emp loed ed in the billil alone the various alous industries producing gar menis ments men Is and other article articles of wool employ another two hundred thou thau sand in the welbern states alone there are fifty thousand wool grower ers tho the W ell these together with the family members of works empolen in oth ft r in which fatool la Is a ina liptay it cut ran readily ba wen seen that the estimate ot of three million person persons deriving sustenance euate nance from the sheep i fleece la Is conserva tivo the preliminary estimated wool clip for the united state states this atar mr ie is given iia is pound pounds aou pled with sixty million pound of pulled wool sool the total raw wool pro ducolon duct ton in thia this country Is well over four hundred million pounds annuala annu all the average annual on of wool in the united state states L b clue ng carpet wool Is about six tx hundred million p the an nual consumption ol 01 0 clothing and ng wools Is pounds tl il a wool ool 13 1 nearly all of tile clothing end and combing type |