Show WOOL RATE SCRAP IS ON Registers Protest Against Boston's Application PORTLAND Ore Mar 24 24 Portland wool noel dealers wool aare nare house men and of commercial organizations interest Interest- Interested interested ed In the wool Industry ot of Oregon allowed their inning today in inthe the hearing before J B Campbell Interstate commerce on the thi application on the Boston Wool Trades association for tor joint through mates lates front from the west coast state on stool shipments Commissioner Campbell gave the th Portland interests Interest permission to present their case today because their attorney IV W c had leave leav tonight to attend a hear hear- hear Ine lug at the national capital on rail rail- railroad rail railroad road construction In central Ore Ore- Oregon son Ore gon OPPOSES Portland wool interests art are op- op opposing op opposing posing the Boston application be- be because causi bo-causi cause wool from Interior points Is Isnow isnow now brought to Portland for grad Ine erad-Ine and scouring and ment The proposed joint rail and water rates which the Boston in- in In Interest crests terest are seeking would accord accord- accord the Portland view points point take the wool direct from eastern Ore Ore- Oregon Ore con gon Idaho and Mon lion Montana tana Portland wool men contend that the wool after being belne treated here moves at a lower loner rats than the raw product could be direct from the ibo producIng terrItory Only one was duos examined James Jame A Hooper seatIng the National Wool Grow ems association and the Utah Wool Growers association He opposed the Boston contention Fred Falconer president Oregon Wool Growers association first today corroborated tIme the tes given elven yesterday by Hooper R It A Av v rd manager of o the lh Pa- Pa Pa Pacific Cooperative Wool Growers as- as a who Includes 27 members headquarter here said said can bo be scoured here more cheaply arid and better than elsewhere because ot of the th water and damp climate He said that the coast mills often pay more mor for wool v ool then than easter mills or other buyers London ho said once had bad a monopoly on Aus- Aus Aus Australian wool but now handles only ten per cent of It The Thi eastern mills he lie asserted are trying to kill hill oft off time tir associations for the thc purpose ot of de- de depressing de pressing Boston Bostoni prIces price He saId that Bos- Bos Bos toni ton buyers last fall started bids at 29 cents for tor Oregon wool but that when Philadelphia buyers buers entered the field they went to 44 cents 00 |