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Show WOOL BUYERS' RAID ON STORAGE PLAN Eastern Men Here Contracting for Clips of This Spring and Summer. Salt Lake, Jan. 6. As the time for the gathering of the woolmen of the country in national convention at Po-catello Po-catello draws near, Interest In the wool storage movement waxes stronger. strong-er. In fact, It Is even predicted by tavern buyers that the movement In Utah will not materialize, and that the annual clip ,of this state will bo disposed ot In the same old way th?t is, through middle men to the Mgr wool buying houses of Boston, Chicago, and other eastern centers. It is stated that representatives or those eastern woolbuylng firms ar now btralning every nerve In this fctato to secure, by paying largo prices In advance, the wool crop of Utah for the coming season, some of them paying as high as IS cents per pound for Utah and Idaho wool. When it is taken Into consideration that the price of wool during the year past never at any time exceeded 15 cent6 per pound, and went down as low in some instances as eight cents, the an-xioty an-xioty of the woolbuying houues to secure se-cure the state's wool clip and prevent the establishment of the wool stor-ase stor-ase plan, if possible, becomes more apparent. |