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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1903)
rCS! 11 1'! II ir MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1903. OUTLOOK 0 10 L PROSPECTS ARE GOOD FOR HIGHEST PRICES. Charles Cunningham, a Foremost Umatilla County Sheepman, Gives Reasons Why the Next Clip Will Be High Priced. Charles CunuliiRhnm believes the prospects are good for the best price for wool next year's clip that has been gotten for the Umatilla county product for 10 years. He gives sovernl reasons for the opinion. First, the advancing prices for wool all over the world In Bos ton. Now York and all the great for eign market centers for the product. The foreign price, which of course nffects the domestic price sooner or later, is being greatly influenced by the wholesale destruction of sheep by flood and drouth in South Africa and In Australia. Second,- the depletion of the surplus stocks held in this country by their being made up Into goods; people are and have been buy ing more woolen goods than they have for years before result, an in creased demand upon the mills and the surplus stocks. In nearly all parts or the world the present winter has been very cold. resulting ip increased demand for woolen ptocds. The weather in this legion and the present condition of the sheep both indicate a good quail' tjr of wool. Finally, he believes wool will brins from 15 to 16 cents per pound here next season. A Wool Country. Mr. Cunningham does not believe ! that .mutton will ever be raised here Jo any greater extent than It now Is. i because this Is par excellence a wool conntrjv wool sneep win always, in His opinion, be the more profitable. Mutton sheep tramp out twice ns much grass which they do not use. their clip Is 16 per cent cheaper .and 33 per cent lighter, and eo -'he be Hoves mutton will never bo raised here extensively. The demand now is all for fine wool, which corresponds with the present stocking of the range, which is nearly exclusively Merino. He state? that there has been, in his opluton. little deviation in the number of sheep in the county for the past 10 years that the number has been a steady average of a quarter of a million for that length of time. Further, he does not believe the num ber will ever materially increase, or. the natural supporting; power of the country for sheep has about reached Ms limit. He states further, more- j ever, In substantiation of this opin ion, that it will not be possible to winter next year on the present range In this county the natural increase of the coming season. Very Healthy Range. Mr. Cunningham state's that foot rot is cured by bringing sheep diseas ed with It upon this range, and that he has also known sore mouth to be cured, by no other agency than the turning of sheep loose upon this range. The only disease that sheep over have here without the trouble oC importing It, is scab, and that in such a mild form It is always easily cured, and there is probably not a ease of it In the county now. among the quarter ot a million sheep. - Merino the Best. He does not believe there will ever be a better sheep for this county than the Merino. It Is the very best breed by all odds anil all that is needed is to keep up the quality. The crossing with the Htraln known as the Ram houlette a French Merino has re sulted in a very perceptible Increase in the size of the- sheep in this coun ty without In any degree Impairing the quality ofthe wool, In fact, the quality of the wool since me. lnirouui tlon of the Ilamboulette strain is In; every respect equal to the highest grade of the original strain. ! Mr. Cunningham now owns 10 nam boulctte raras Imported from' France which cost him $200 each, rind from which he expects 1300 progeny thU spring. He also now hns 3500 thor-1 ouuhbred rams, while the total cnu morntlon of his flocks counts up 20 000 sheep. He believes there wIP 'eventually be enough mills .here toi work up all the home product' of wool , Our wnter power Is practically tin 1 limited, and all the other conditions , are unrivaled. Finest Woolen Goods. Ho insists that the Pendleton Wool-i on Mills nctually turn out as fine pure; wool goods as are produced uny-i where in the world. Moreover, It is! not generally known here that this Is: the opinion of Eastern dealers in and I importers of woolen goods. j Mr. Cunnlnghnm states that the I room for profitable expansion of the milling business is not half under-, stood by our people, but that It Is ' sure to come, and Pendleton will eventually he a great manufacturing center ons of the greatest In the, world for woolens. Mr. Cunning- ham ended his talk on the wool ques tion by saying. "As long as there is' a tariff law the raising of wool will , be the best paying business In th' county." Mr. Cunningham says this rountry! Is not. adapted to the raising of Ango ra goata. They are browsers, pure' and simple, and will not do well nny ' length of time whore thev cannot get' their living off small trees and shrubs. Thoy will do well here in the moun-1 tnins in the summer, but it is neces sary to feed them in the winter, and' the feed that is given them In the winter would better be fed to sheep. IN SOUTHERN OREGON. High Waters and Much Rain Cause Numerous Slides and Washouts. Alilmitl. Or.. .Inn. M. Southern Oregon Is In the grip of the heaviest tain itnrm ai.d consequent Hood of waters that has been experienced here In more limn 10 yenrs. Traffic or the Southon. Pacific railroad Is temporarily paralyzed through the hogue Illver valley and the Siskiyou Mountains by slides and washouts. Two miles of track near. Central Point are rendered unsafe by the rag ing waters, and slides and washputs. which trackmen are winking hurd to dear out. occurred Saturday at wall Creek, near Summit In the Slskiyous. where tiie railroad company has re cently completed extensive and very expensive revetments. Near the state line at Cole there are several washouts. Northward In Josephine iount the floods In the tributaries of Rogue River are caus ing much trouble. Wanted Three rooms for light housekeeping in good locality. Ad t'ress G. W. I)., care E. O. Beef Trust Conspiracy Case. Jefferson City. Mo.. Jan. 2G-The report of Special Commissioner I. H. Kinley ,of Kansas City, appointed to take testimony in the suit of Attorney General Crew, for ouster of the beef packlng companies from doing bus! rcss In Missouri, for violation of the anti-trust laws, was called for argu nient in the stiite supreme court to day. "The light of Attorney General Crow against the trusts lias been pur nieil Incessantly since he assumed of fice and the result of his efforts inralnst the so-called packers' com bine Is awaited with keen Interest The report of Special Commissioner Kinley is extremely favorable to the attorney-general's side of tiro case. The report finds that the Armours. Swifts, Nelson Morris and other big companies are guilty of combining to fix and maintain prices for tho sale nl dressed beef in St. Joseph. St. I.ouls and Knnsas City in violation of the of the state. Bluegrass Editors Meet. Louisville, Ky., Jnu. 27. Tho Ken tucky Press Association held Its mid winter meeting In Louisville today with an nttontlanco of prominent edi tors from every lection of tho state Thomas G Wntklns, president of the rssoelntloti, presided and nruong the topics discussed wore tho advertising law passed by tho last legislature, the advantage of uniformity in adver tising rates .patent medicine adver tisements, chances of tho daily in small cities .the host way to make money out or Job work, tho future of the metropolitan weekly, methods of building tin n country newspaper, and the management of the press and composing tooms. Tho session closes this evonlng with a banquot nt the Vlllard hotel, at which addresses will be delivoreri by several speakers ot prominence. Lumber Dealers' Convention. KanBnB City,. Mo Jan. 27. About tfGO lumbermen and others interested in the trade nro attending tho nnnual convention of the Missouri, Kansas anil Oklahoma Retail Lumbermen's Association, which began Its sessions today at tho Coates house. E. S. Ml l er. ot Bethany. Mo., 1b president ot the associollon, and Harry A. Oor- , such at this city la the secretary, The (issociation wants an nraendment to the interstate commerce law 'giving tho conimlpflon power to enforce Its ruliiiirx nnd resolutions to this end Iv.ill he adopted by tho nsfenclatinn. j Numerous other mnttors affecting the ! lumber trade are down for discussion. The convention will be in session two I days. New English Church Primate, i London, Jar. li". The members of ktho Ancient Ordct of Canterbury met ttduy anil formally elected Bishop Da vidson. a U i . () h of Cuntarbury. In succession to the lale Dr. Temple. 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