Show 00 SHEEP INDUSTRY IN WEST SUFFERS Ogden men are arc assisting In pio piO- piOneering pioneering pioneering in m a new Industry tor for Alas Alas- Alaska Alaska ka ka Our former formet citizen Adam Pat Pat- Patterson Patterson Pat terson terson and Aman Moore who has been a promoter of o cement com com- companies ponies and helped to establish the Devils Slide SUde plant are officers in inthe laIthe the Ithe Aleutian Livestock company whIch is devoted to wising raising sheep on an extensive scale In the Aleu Aleu- Aleutian Aleutian tian island chain oft off the coast ot of Alaska After three years rears of o test test- testIng testing test lag Ing the climatic effect on sheep J F Ha- Ha Has HaI Ha Ithe the headed by s I of Salt Lake Lae and A A L L MackIntosh of ot Nampa Idaho has made roade plans to stock the islands sheep Mr Mackintosh states that sh sheep p scan can be raised on the Aleutian I islands for tor much less than In la the western United States and that transportation costs costa will be less lesa to Boston by from the Islands to Boston than from pouts points la In Idaho to the same e destination The lease secured from the COT gor tor says saya Mr Mackintosh provIdes that there will w be no charge whatever for lor grazing tor for the three years yeara and thereafter assures as- as us that whatever fee teo is charged by the government will not be a burden to the Industry The I grazing g lands are arc low Jow rolling Islands without Umber or brash The ground Is completely covered with a crop of ot grass and and the ram ram- tall rain I faU aU approximates thirty inches dis dIs- dIstrIbuted distributed throughout the year There Thore is another favorable condition on the Island bland as there are ara no wild ani anI- anImals animals mals of o any kind to lull kill or annoy the sheep men have haye for tor many l ears dreamed about the pos pas possibility of ot finding a place to raise sheep such as the choicest part of ot the he western range presented some fifty ora or a hundred years a ago ago and where present modern scientific methods of ot growing sheep could be applied It is such a place as this on Island where the proper care In lambing the lamb Increase each year of ot the mature owes ewes will not be less Jess than 90 per cent Ordinarily Ordinarily It might be Interred inferred that the placing of ot sheep on Island would be a very expensive proposition lion tion and that the freight costs In shipping tho the wool and sheep sheen from the Island might be a drawback to the Industry the toW total expense of ot delivering sheep shelp from Idaho to island will be bo less than the cost ot of wintering the the sheep In Idaho for tor one season Beahon whIle the freight cost oa on wool tram from Urn Urn- Um I nack Island to Boston would be per hundredweight as aa against 2 2 75 per hundredweight freight on wool by rail from Boise Idaho to Boston This statement points to the necessity necessity o ot of the railroads making their rates notes tes covering the tho Intermountain Country more nearly comparable with nith water transportation on wool from the tho Aleutian n islands to 10 Bos Ion Bos-Ion ton lon Capital Is la being drawn away from Crom the sheep Industry in this reo re I i glon gion to build up the Ind Industry else also elsewhere I where where and It If the railroads tail ran to todo todo todo do their part by granting favorable rates eventually sheep raising raisins and wool growing In fn the western states will cease to be the big contributor contributor contributor tor It U has been In the pa past t to the tho revenues of ot the transportation lines |