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Show WOOL CROP IS The sheep shearing season In I'tah Is now in full blast, and In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of two million sheep are being be-ing shorn of their lleeces at the dll-1 ferent shearing points throughout the stato. The total wool clip, most of which was contracted for last fall, will, according to the estlmrte. reach 11.-000,000 11.-000,000 pounds. At p rices ranging j from IS to 22 cents a pound, the total valuation of the season's clip oucht t'j approximate .2.coii.oo.. According to Marcus Ilarrl-?. nent for a big St. Iyjuis wool company, the flocku are la good condition for this season of the yvar. His firm last year purchased between one-half and I two-thirds of the entire word product Of the stat". The average fleece wCI run cloe to seven pounds to the bend, worth about $1 4. and the tiuallty e.f the wool is alioo the average. I The she.-irinr; season, which giro employment to about 73'i men, will cliie about May 13. Among the 2'io,i'fiii sheep now hi -Ing shenn-d are the following foc!: At Black Rock. 123.00O; Miltord. 22.'.-o'O; 22.'.-o'O; Modenu, 2ff,,"iei; Fairfield,' l"o,. Oiui; l-hl. 75'hii; Grants llle, in', t'oo. I5fgrecn. 12..."fO; Nephl, T.'i.ium'; Je-rlcho. loO.onn; riraeon ami Vernal. illO.oOi; Cisco, 7 "..O'ni ; Thompson's Springs, 30.'.''mi; Verdi. 73,i.Ou; price, 73.IMIO; Colt. ,n. .-ii.oOi: Heber and Charleston f,ii,n(0; Wasatch, cnnim; Ketorj and Lucln. 73,oo.i; Malad Val-!''. Val-!''. 73nn't, and many either points. |