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Show Local Flockmasters ' Contract Wool Clip! i Better than 100,000 pounds of! wool, bringing thirty-two and a quarter cents a pound, was sold by ; local flockmasters of Gunnison 'last ( week, the purchaser being Joe Reams for the Hollaway, Donald & 'Jones company, the big Boston ; wholesale concern. . The local wool- , growers, Metcalf Bros., John Ander- son, C. D. Michaelson and James , Bown, among the largest wool pro-'; I duce; s in Southern Utah, joined the Manti pool when the deal was closed j there for some 75000 fleeces, j The price received by the local woolmen is just three-quarters of a cent below the 1926 price, and due to the low wool prices prevailing, the ' producers are highly satisfied. An j advance of SI per fleece was made, and as a result the local sheepmen 'received some $12,000 in cash. |