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Show Woolmen Sell 40,000 Fleeces The Manti wool pool sold Tuesday Tues-day morning to Hallowell, Jones and Donald of Boston, through J. 11. Kearns of Salt Lake City and H. G. Brown of Mantl, representatives of this company for 21 cents, with $1 per head advanced on the clip, the balance to be paid when tne wool is delivered. The usual discounts were made. Included in tills wool pool is ap- proximately 40,000 fleeces coming mostly from herds run on the west desert. Alexander Barton, W. J. Wintch and J. C. Madsen comprise the committee com-mittee who sold the wool. Shearing will begin within the next four days and will be done mostly at the Manti steam shearing plant near Fayette. Sheepmen say the fleeces are large and of a superior quality due to a good winter on the desert. |