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Show Shearing On at Christenburg Shearing is underway in earnest at the Christenburg corrals, where the Manti Steam Sheariug & Dipping company has an up-to-date equipment equip-ment erected for a force of fifty shearers. shear-ers. It is certainly interesting to watch the plant in operation. Each . one of the pens is provided with a clipper attached to the machinery by a gearing gear-ing adjusted at will as the operator may require. The clipper is guided by the hf.nd of the shearer with aston ishiDg rapidity through the wool on (he unshoru sheep. Extra hands are kept busy binding the fleeces of wool turned off at the various pens. The tied fleeces are then dumped into an eudless elevator which carries them to a platform to be sacked in large bales ready for shipping. Here as at each stage of the operation spare time is conspicuous by its absence, as all hands are paid by piece work and thus afforded an incentive to keep unusually busy. The boys all earn good wages , 8 cents a head being paid shearers and 30 cents a hundred fleeces for tiers. Steve Vorhees, who is in charge of the plant, states he has a booking of 72,000 head of sheep, thus guaranteeing guarantee-ing fully a month's run. Some of the hands employed are local men while the greater number come from California and other distant points W7ith individual tents pitched the camp presents a busy Bcene and is certainly worth while going to see by one who has never watch ehearin g done by machinery. To see the vast amount of wool turned off gives one some idea, too, of the scope this industry in-dustry wields as a commercial factor. . . I |