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Show WOOL MEN TO MEET JAN. 17 Relief From High Selling Charges One of Problems to Be Discussed (sporinl Dispatch.) SALT LA K I ; .Jan. M After several wls of Investigation during which tin y l ave been receiving suggestion and advice from stockmen and associations asso-ciations all over the country, a special spe-cial committee of the National Wool '.lowers' association, headed bv Ir. i H. S. Bettls nf Ko'.hc, Idaho, will make ' a full report to th national conven- lion at ak Iako City, opening January Janu-ary 17. They will discuss thc possibility possi-bility of organizing a co-op, ratlvs livestock commission hou6c for thc more economical handling of shlp-menLs shlp-menLs at stockyards. This committees, which In addition to Dr. Bettls. includes J. J Noblltl of Cokedale. Wyo. W. N" McQIU, F.l. Nev : Henry Moss. Salt Like City, and Praeger, Miller o New Mexico has been charged with the threshing out of one of tho most Important! problems now confronting ihe wool-; men. Selling charges by commission I men have been out of reason, It Isi claimed, and relief is .'ought Cr " an almost Intolerable situation. It Is urged that the Sheepmen themselves! can remedy the matter through the' organization of their own exchange, ! eliminating commissions and hand- j ling the product direct from the producer pro-ducer to the consumer. Knortlmr varrl 1 charges will be diseased under tho same head, according to Professor P. I R Marshall, secretary of the national1 association. I The whole mattnr will be brought j up for general consideration upon the address of C. II. Wlthey. manager of' thc Kurmorn" I'nlon Livestock Com-I III .. I' ll . I Mil ' It Vl.f, Will T i. I I 1...W- the farmers operate this branch of their business. It is deemed to be of special importanco lo the sheepmen; of the intermountaln siali..s, ;,,,,(.,. riJ,. dltlons are such as to make co-opcru-tlr.n e.speeiall feasll Tho Idaho Wool iQfOWers, Washington Wash-ington Wool Growers, the Wyoming Wool Clrowers, the (jgden Livestock atlon, and the -Nevada Livestock association, all of which have met during tho past few days, have v.lre.i suggestions to thc commltlco on the subject Sheepmen are urged to get in touch vnh the committeemen In their various states or to com 10 the convention with Ideas formulated. An elaborate nthletlc program. Including In-cluding wrestling and boxing bouts, la being arranged by the Salt Lake Commercial clu'e Several nationally known "fistic" s-lars have been - -eun d for a ten-round go Monday I niKh:, January 17, at the Hippodrome |