Show WOOL SCOURING PLANT PLANTS PLANT PLANTIS IS S PLANNED FOR UTAH Economies J In Freight and The Man Man- Manufacture nn- nn of or products Byproducts are Benefit Growers to Profit Prof Prof- it Millions Annually J Utah's greatest handicap in the wool Industry to be removed with the erection of a complete wool scouring plant by the tho United States Wool company according to C. C B. B Stewart assistant treasurer Although Although Al Al- though the site of the plant has not been decided upon it Is conceded that either cither Salt Lake or Ogden Is the tho logical location This plant Mr Stewart declared will include all aU facilities for tor the handling and refining of the tho wool and the many byproducts as well as a largo large storage storage storage stor stor- age warehouse with a capacity for handling all wool from Utah Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho Nevada and western Wyoming and Colorado Up to the minute la ver respect said Mr Stewart the plant Is to inaugurate Inaugurato the dry cleaning process which Is the latest latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est method for cleaning wool Construction n of or the machinery will bo be within the next few faw weeks he said and erection of the plant immediately after It Is to tobe tobe tobe be erected at a cost of about a quarter million dollars and when completed will give ghe employment for fer fora fera a large number of people It Is in benefits to Utah and the of oC the IntermountaIn mountain territory however that Its greatest advantages lie said Mr Stewart At the present time Utah wool and that of other intermountain states is being shipped to Boston at heavy freight rates Moro More than 70 per cent of the weight of raw wool when shipped is dirt moisture and andy by y products which also means a great loss In freight Very often this scoured wool is then shipped back to Utah and manufactured Into in into into In- In to garments The saving in Utah's wool in the freight rates alone would amount to thousands of dollars annually This advantage however is small compared compared compared com com- pared to the stimulus to the Indus Indus- try Utah with the completion o of the tho scouring plant will become the thi center of the wool Industry fo for nearly all western territory Grower Growers Growers Grow Grow- er ers in Utah Idaho Nevada western western western west west- ern Wyoming and Colo Colorado ad would all alI ship their wool to this scouring plant as it would mean greater profits for Cor them through decreased freight rates and higher p prices s for fore foret t t p as ern sc 1 s would be unable to comp camp with Utah for any any western trade on account of oC the lower lower costs of sh shipping It is very hard said Mr Stewart to mention all of the advantages to tobe tobe tobe be derived through this single plant It Is the intention to establish establish lish Ush a chemical laboratory In In connection connection con con- n with the scouring plant which will make it possible to save every ery one of the forty-eight forty byproducts byproducts byproducts by by- products of wool In every hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred pounds of wool sheared there is fifteen pounds of grease fifteen of potash and man many other substances substances substances sub sub- stances of commercial value according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to statistics These are arenow arenow arenow now mostly wasted through the old-fashioned old wet process of scourIng scouring scour- scour Ing ng the wool Through economics and byproducts byproducts ducts the value of the wool crop will be lie doubled Mr Stewart said and the growers ers will consequently receive more This will also ha have hae havea e ea a tendency to force down the high cost of clothing increase the prosperity prosperity pros pros- of the state bring in Ju outside capital and greatly help In making matting Utah the peer of the west The Tha advertising advertising advertising ad ad- value to be received by oy Utah in connection with esta ing the first dry process of ot scouring wool will be of mat material ria benefit to the state To Utah this means more than for any other state She Is recognIzed recognized recognized not nor only as a logical cen center ter of the wool industry but as the logical distributing center At a recent secret meeting of the state war industries board it was decided that Utah was the logical distributing ing point not only for the west but for the tho coast Were It not for the immediate signing of the armistice armistice- Utah would have been made such a distributing point by the govern govern- ment The Tho process of scouring to be In Install Installed installed In- In i stall stalled d also deserves mention ac according according according ac- ac cording to Clifford P. P Fell counsel of the United States Wool company The dry process Is a new discovery which will rev revolutionize the wool industry It is accomplished through the use of powdered gypsum which is available in Utah in very large quantities ho he said Through the old wet process many of the byproducts of wool were lost and I the wool fibre weakened The dry process Is greatly superior i |