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Show oo HIGH PRICES FOR WOOL. There is money in the sheep industry indus-try in a war year Here is proof of that declaration. Dr H. M. Rowe has completed the shearing of his bands in western Colorado, along the Utah boundary' and his 6,000 head has yielded 45,000 pounds of wool, for which the Ogden-ite Ogden-ite received 25 cents a pound, or $11,250. There was a time when that number num-ber of sheep could have been bought lor far less than this years revenue lrom the clip. That was when wool was selling at about 6 cents. Several Sev-eral bands of sheep were then purchased pur-chased at $1 per head. Our wool growers were looking for-- ward to four years of much the statu adversity. They had accepted Wood row Wilson's election as a scrlo.i blow and were settling down to a pe rlod of retrenchment when the wai broke out and brought them highei prices than have boon received ir years With cattle at top prices, wool ?S cents a pound, copper IT cents a pound, wheat $1.61 a InishH in Chi cago, the west should be growing rich |