Show SHIP WOOL DIRECT 1 TO MARKET IN FAST EASl Utah Sheep Men Get Together on Some Important iT I. I E i V M Measures P. P j DISCUSS FREIGHT RATES Join Hands in Movement for forI I i 7 J t Reforms To Reforms To Store L the Crop 1 rl I 5 of or tho the Utah At the tho special meeting If rJ S wool ool growers held yesterday afternoon afternoon after after- o noon at the Con Commercial club a resolution rest res res- 3 t adopted 1 was unanimously I which provided e 1 that no wool grower groer shall consign his wool to commission merchants In the East The meeting which was attended b by nearly nearl t sheep men representing representing- J a sheep or practically tho the entire Utah Industry was as the most representative o 1 5 gathering of or wool growers that has hasmet met In the state for years ears and from 5 it man many beneficial results are looked I b for Amon Among these the tho resolution t I. barring barring- tho the shipments to commission merchants Is believed cd to be the most p Important j i It will moan mean that the local sheep 5 men must either sell seU their wool crop direct or store It until such a n. time timeS J S a. a as tho the market warrants a sale The 1 decision to do away with the commission commis t S sion slon merchants has tho the double result of saving a the tho loss cau caused d by commissions commis commis- of not flooding the market at atthe atthe the time of or shearing which added to 1 1 tho the local storage c would permit of or juf ju- ju f sales and a steady supply l Need for Organization i The conference was called to order orderS order'S S 'S by y E E. E II Callister president of tho the Utah wool growers who briefly outlined outlined out out- 1 lined tho purposes for which the meeting meet meet- fJ- fJ J ing had been called There was a pressing pressing- need said Mr 1 Callister for fort forthe t the sheep men of Utah and the West t to organize for tor their protection pS against hostile Interests an and 1 hostile legislation Peter G. G John Johnson on of or Idaho told of S tho thiS Idaho association of or sh and of their pleasure that Utah had an organization and could enter tho the right fight The Tho same views w were wre re expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex r pre pressed ed by Edward Chapman of or the 18 S Wyoming association f I S The action of or the state conventions I o of Ohio Indiana and Iowa In de dea demanding de- de a manding a a. special session of or congress for tho the revision of or the tariff was brought up as al another reason wh why j the West cst should bo be prepared to send sendS senda S h. h a a. a united delegation East Last to fight fish t the tho reduction T on the tariff on wo wools wool l. l which of a n. tari tariff revision rc would be beS S r i S among among tho the first to bo ho asked for Cor Should FIght the tho Bill Dill r. r State Stale Senator John Seele Sceley Seeley told of or j- j the bill biJl to protest protest against ag t which he he- nn and 1 others had been sent to 5 Washington The bill provides for forthe forthe the leasing of or the public lands at a aS afew afew afew few cents per aero acre for a period 1 of ten tenS S years and is Ig the tho source of or much complaint complaint cornS com corn S S I plaint and protest among the sheep 5 men who claim that such a law would S drive thousands of or sheep owners out IS of ot business S 'S S 5 The freight rates on wool weare wroe also alsoS also'S S 'S discussed It was reported that negotiations negotiations L 4 were now on between hn the Oregon Short Line the Rio Grande S 'S and md tho the Salt Lake Lale Route and their 5 eastern connections for loer rates It ItIL was shown that the rate per hundred pounds on wool v at the present time from from the mountain Inter-mountain countr country to tor r eastern points was The sameS tame same S weight was hauled from the thc Pacific IL coast to the East for tor 1 I or 5 less although tho the distance istance was over 1000 miles greater The freight rate question was given as another r rawhy rea reason ra I son on why all sheep men should work workS S together I S S I |