Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — Wool Growers’ Conference. [ARTICLE]

Wool Growers’ Conference.

The wool growers and dealers, Tuesday, adopted a series of resolutions declaring unjust the present classification of wool by the railroads of the country, and directing that they be urgently requested to place wool in their new classification on a basis that would, at least, be equal to the present classification, as it classified as follows: Wool in sacks, in quantities less than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, second class; in quantities greater than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, third class. Wool compressed in bales, in quantities less than 20,000 pounds, in car-loads, third ciass; in quantities greater than 20.000 pounds-, in car-loads, fourth class. The conference passed a resolution declaring lhat. recent events have demonstrated the necessity for a central organization at Washington orelsewhere, and with that purpose in view, request all wool growers, and officers of wool growerq associations in the United States, to immediately send their addresses to Albert Champman, at Middleburg, Yt,