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Show JOINT MEETING ON WOOL POOL I Farm Bureau and Sheepmen to Organize for Handling 1922 Clip SALT LAKE. Jan. 3. The Utah State farm bureau and Ihe Utah Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association will organise thl week for the handling of the 1U22 clip along the lines of cooperative marketing. Thl announcement wa ma le yeSTsrday by Jamee A. Hooper, presldcn! of the Utah Woolgrowers awsocl'iiion. The wool market, he "aid, In :.homg ren.arkllble Mtlength. v Mr. Hooper said yesterday that the' commute,. b iK disposed i; practically all of Ihe wool handled In 1021 H prices which hotted th.- growers from five ,to eight cents more per pound than they wore offered .-u shearing time last year The anl Males of th'-Utuh th'-Utuh wool made by the commllic-e got the- growers around 26 cent- a pound for the wool In the original sacks. This year the committee has already al-ready made plans for tho financing, storing, grilling ar.d iel!n-. ,,f th--Utah wools in Salt Lake. Two pl'bpo-sliioiiM pl'bpo-sliioiiM for warehousing her are ww under consideration, Mr. Hooper said, and It la certain that ample facilities are available for this purpose. There is no reason Mr. Hooper said, why the T'tah woolu should r.ot be handled entirely wi'hln Hi,' state, thus making it possible in a far I greater degree than ever before for j tho growers themselves through the marketing committee to have contro! of their product from the siieeps" backs to the purchase:-. The market for WOOl Ik strong both from the manufacturers and the s;.ec- ulators' viewpoints, with every indication, indi-cation, Mr. Hooper, said, tbut if the present rate of consumption ci ntinues thai by shearing time thre will b-no b-no surplus of wool in this .untry. The li'22 wool markotlng rommU-I rommU-I tee will be composed of VV. I. Cand" land and George Austin for 'he Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association. i. D. McKay and one other for the farm imr. j, v.iih W. W. Armstrong, Salt Lake banker, and A. P. Blgclow, president of the Ogden State bank of Ogden. representing repre-senting the financial liti-pnts of the stale. It is held altogether probable that the financial .irranr rnents tor handling han-dling tho 193i pool will provide tor greater proportionate advances c u the wool than were possible i ist war and that the manner of procedure In the pool will be simplified, JK-" |