Show FIGURING ON THE COST OF FLEECES I 1 adolt 0 lova alls C it 11 S tl MT home most satisfactory anovers it ogled I 1 coin rom arf rt ducr IN stilt throughout tile lie country to r 4 of f I 1 bevet 11 1 pf 0 tariff 43 riff I 1 or I 1 future victor 0 johnson attorney for the N national Wool growers tion aas as in bait balt lake lat last sat in ill conference with C G D B stew art i secretary of the utah ilois association regarding the rise they are boing going to take p be forn fore he the interstate commerce coin merce oni om inkton inisi lon stewart state states that re pe hab u received somo some very satisfactory answers to the hats of questions that he sent 0 out ut se ameral eral ago he fie sent hat nut out to the most p onit eminent nent sheep men in the state in order to gather information for the rate cabe u ard he says that thc jhc sheep men hive shown an unusual interest andern an wern coming in from all parts of the state he lie and johnson will go over these question quee tlona and ans answers wera ana will then go to work on framing up ud their case the cost of shipping wool from salt lake city to boston ie Is 2 12 35 per hundred weight while it Is only one dollar per hundred weight to ship it from the pacific coast to boston says stewart art we are lo 10 ing to try to hare have the rate rates on wool adjusted to something like a fair proportion to the he rate rates on other article articles I 1 president J E Con coagriff griff of the national wool and storage company considers con elders the wool situation much more hopeful than it was a month ago lie id la in receipt of a telegram from hie his representative in boston which la Is to the effect that although prices are no higher there la in a better feeling question i askil 11 have iou kept records wilch which show from year to car your in vestment in the sheep business bugl nesa your op expenses and your out puff tre re you able to eay say from our recorded or from your experience whether or not the coat cost of raising sheep and producing sool ool has increased during the period in which vou have been engaged in it what has been the percentage 0 increased coat of wool during the past five rive year alo also in ten yeara years lias has thero there been any increate In creane I 1 la n tho the investment in land nee necee eary eary for a given number of ah st leep bep also in the ise years and in ten years then follow que floit as to taxes maintenance hearing shearing supervision leases etc can you in la your locality load twenty four thousand pounds of wool in a standard car it you think thie this amount axce excessive what do you think should be the maximum weight tO I 1 la Is there any practice or requirement of the railroad over which you ship which to you seems unduly burdensome and if so state de talla tails state whither or not care cars for moving wool are furnished promptly upon demand I 1 give average wages of gerders her dere ders also of camp tenders camp bille per band coet cost of hay bay haa has absorption of winter balge by farmers ted a longer period of feeding each winter how ciany tone tons of hay are necessary necee eary now to wanter a band of a thousand sheep state whether decrease in eize size of banda bands has increased coit cost of or care and feeding ten ton sheep men were exi examined mined laet last saturday and gave facts and figure figures relative to the cost of wool production and other theae these witness will appear aln atria at the hearing next month practically evory rall tood 0 in o tho the country will be involved in the case sheep men setting forth tha the freight rates on wool hides and raw yelta pelts in alt all sections sec sect llona lons are not on a fair basis with the rates on other commodities |