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Show OF INTEREST TO WOOLGROWERS Harry A. Williams, representing the Western Wool Exchange, Inc., was in St. George recently on his way to Cedar City on business in connection with the exchange. The Western Wool Exchange announces an-nounces that its facilities for handling the 1928 wool clip are now available. Some of the advantages claimed by the exchange are lower freight rates, lower storage costs, lower insurance rates, more weight to the wool due to sea air, lower costs of financing and better marketing methods. According to Mr. Williams there are more than 500 wool men in the southwest south-west included among their stockholders. stockhold-ers. Two Cedar City men represent this section on the advisory board. The object of the exchange is to help the wool growers of this section to a better market for their produce. It will represent the growers either as individuals or in groups, providing them with any or all of its facilities at their option. At no time will the grower lose control of this wool until it .is sold. He can have it simply stored and get an advance of 65 per cent of its estimated value at 6 per cent interest for six months to three years, or he can have it washed and graded. The exchange will send out a bulletin each week to members, keeping them advised of current market mar-ket values, and leaving it to the grower's grow-er's option as to when he Sells, Their plan, according to Mr. Williams, Wil-liams, should mean several cents a pound to the growers of the southwest. south-west. In the first place, it will save on freight rates. It is predicted that within five years the west coast will consume every pound of wool pro-' duced in these five western states. But even if some of it has to go to the east, the dirt and grease can be removed re-moved and then it can go by water, thus effecting a big saving. |