Show utah produces 7 per cent of nations supply of wool it has become the fashion to have a eek annually for many rimy industries and many causes these sometimes overlap and during the present week the country Is celebrating both an industry and a 96 cause one Is wool the other Is education in utah it Is not hard to flork ork up enthusiasm on the subject ot of fatool with our great ranges ot of mount mountains aim occupying the eastern easter ri part of the state and our great deserts the est the first supplying summer teed feed the latter winter range ve are ideally located to produce wool we can therefore join heartly with manufacturers and merchants in bringing this product and the infinite variety of terille roods goods manufactured from it to the favorable att attention enlon of the people As the pioneer trains balue into he valley they brought their civilization liza tion with then thea and one of the most fundamental parts of it was sheep As important tant as these were for nr meat they vare w ere more important for their wool ool the pioneers spun this into yarn knitted it to protect feet and hands and etoie oe it into homespun for the garments of men ft omen and children every well furnished home had a ning wheel and many had looms A part of every girl girls a education was knowing how at least to dpn t s d many were taught to weave and also to fashion the hom homespun into clothing after the gold told rush to california occurred a good many ny sheep were driven across the country and in one hard winter at lehl lehi the owner ot of a large band bond wu was ove UAen rUken a and ad compelled to trade thee dior feed this started the industry in that legion in a iager way than a few ew animals for or bac each h family as I 1 it t had existed before this year of 1931 the utah cup clip amounted to pounds pound or seven teven per c cant nt of the national production if it Is almost double the clip for 1020 as reported in tho the census tor for that year the number of sheep in the state Is the earliest figures for the territory of utah were ere in 1833 1883 when there were sheep the normal return from hur wool Ls Is about DOO and that from lambs iambs la Is over 10 DOO the sheep industry therefore Is one of the important ones of the states down dom in northern sanpete county tho the dividing up of the manti forest compelled the sheep men to have smaller herds and this led to the import importation atlon of blooded sheep that region Is now perhaps the most important center in the world for pure blood A with ami industry being so im portent in our industrial life utah utan people can cheerfully celebrate wool week with and follow the slogan of buying woolen goods whenever possible remember that wn wool Is new wool ali 11 wool may contain shoddy at least we should all buy three pieces of bolen goods tor for Ch caristrom pre sent enta thia this stimulation wll help not riot only the wool men but the ner chants and manufacturer manufacturers of this primary article of human need deseret nes |