Show TARIFF HONE TOO HIGH FOR UTAH WOOL there is one thing that all republic can anaf democratic sheep men are agreed upon and that is that there should be no reduction on the tariff on wool telegrams have poured into washington the past week from th s state to the committee on ways and means that is now at work gathering data with the stew of revising th tariff congressmen dtowell and sen acors smoot and sutherland are now in washington loaded to the brim with reasons fibre be no deduc tion in the tariff on wool leid and a few other things that utah produce and needs protection for one sheep man said that a on in the tariff will put many sheep men of the west out of business and that hundreds of others vill be greatly in aured it is cla med that the eastern congressmen do not understand the con under which the sheep men of the west are laboring they do not realize how profits have been impaired during the last five years the eastern cheep raisch owns h s own grazing land and his cost of production has pot been in creased on the other hand it is point ed out that the creation of the forest reserve has caused the cost of the pro of wool in the west to leap skyward it s believed that if eastern law makers can be made to see this chev will not reduce the tariff on wool in spile of the prevail ng protective tariff on wool against foreign campeti tion the american sheep ra sers declare that the wool growers of australia and south america have proven themselves formidable foes in the american mar bets they say that when the tariff was fixed five years ago the western sheep raisers especially those in utah wyoming nevada and arizona were able to graze their sheep without coat on government ground than the for est reserve was created and the wool grow er was forced to pay from 6 to 10 cents a head for summer grazing for their sheep many were forced to pur chase ranges butr or rent for ddll and cpr ng grazing this coi d tion caged profits to be severely cut as it raised the coat of the running of sheep anywhere from 25 to 60 per cent |