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Show i SHEEPMEN OF IDAHO PERK OP Prediction Made That Spring Wool Will Bring 30 Cents a Pound Sheepmen of Idaho avo In a more optimistic frame of mind than they have hri n in for months ami are confident con-fident that th average price they will receive for wool at tho time of the spring clip will he 30 cents p r pouml. This waa the statement made by C. N. Woods assistant district forester in charge of tho department of grizlnc. who returned this morning from Rolsc, Idaho, where he went Inst Wi V. to attend the annual con entlon of the Idaho State Woolgrower.V association. There was a. lnrge attcnd.mco at the meeting, according to Mr. Woodp which attendance however, ho snld, was below what it should have been, Judged by the number of members In the association. Among the principal speakers were Hugh Sproat, president ..f the elation: Ir S. W. Mc lure, former secretary of tho Nation, I Woolgi ow-en" ow-en" association; .Tool Priest, of the rofr-n short Line railroad; and Luther Lu-ther Goldmnn of the United Bt&tea biological bio-logical survey. The convention was pervaded by a spirit of optimism which way intensified intensi-fied during: the convention When telc-gTams telc-gTams trom outside points were received re-ceived showing that sales of wool thot were helng made wore brlnglnc prices ranging from 2J cent- to 30 cent per pound. This led to the prediction from the floor of tho convention that tho spring clip would average 30 oents per pound which would be. about twice the amount that had been received by the woolgrowcrs last spring. Tho members attributed the rapid rise tn the price of wool to the pass I age of tin emergency tariff act. Mr. I Woods said. |