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Show A GREAT YEAR FOR SHEEPMEN Wool Clip Heavy And Prices Way Up. Strikes At Soda Springs Cause Difficulty. T. J. Poultcr, the sheepman, has Just returned fiom the Soda Springs country, and lie repoits an enormous clip there this year. Not less than 500,000 sheep a;ei aging six pounds of wool each were clipped. This means a total of 3,000,000 pound of wool. A goodly portion of this sold at 22 cents, the whole clip bringing something like $000,000. Mr. Poultcr is authoiity for tho statement that this has been one of tho very best jears for wool and lambs and that the sheepmen are ahead this time despite the dltllculty Incident to strikes, etc. The Illrshey herd of sheep, numbering about 18,-000, 18,-000, showed up with an average of ten pounds of wool each. When the shcaieis lan into that they kicked for higher prices, and they got It. Then the loaders, though they were getting live cents a sack, decided they wanted more money, and got it. The haulers struck and got more money and there was dllllcultyall 'round. Mr. l'oulter went prepared to shear on the 10th but could not get at it until the 25th. Practically all thusheailng there will be wound up tills week. At the present time many sheep arc being shipped In fiom Oregon. Theso arc already clipped of course and sent over to tun on the range this summer that they may be tat for tho fall market. Speculators have already shipped In not less than 100,000. Tlie.se with the large number already there will probablv ovoicrowd the laiigc. In speaking of Soda Springs, Mr. Poultci said that It is a game of holdup hold-up over there. Money Is plentiful there while the shearers and sheepmen sheep-men are there, and the Soda Springs peoplo take thorough advantage of this. High prices are charged for ever) thing, there Is drinking and gambling, and In a few months time hundreds of thousands of dollars pass hands there. Each of the shearing outfits have no less than from 40 to bo men in their gangs and there arc a number of gangs. |