The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Taylor Announces
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following statement: “While I take
particular pride in the fact that I am
a resident of Kerc county, in the event
of election, it shall be my purpose at
all times to represent as faithfully as
I know how every community in all*
of the 10 counties of the 86th District.
“Being familiar with the problems
and needs of the district, of which
ranching is the prime industry, I re-
solutely believe that I can be of great
assistance in representing the stock-
men at a time when sound judg-
ment and legislative ability are of vi-
tal importance. I shall take an uncom-
promising stand for all measures pro-
posed to aid the cattleman and the
wool and mohair grower, and just as
firm a stand opposing any proposal I
believe might be inimical to their
cause.
“If I am successful in my candid-
acy, I want every citizen of the great
Edwards Plateau region, whatever his
station, to feel that my office is open
to him at all times as headquarters
when he comes to Austin.
“Issues of the campaign will be
dealt with fairly and squarely, and in
no uncertain terms, in every part of
the district between now and the
Democratic primary on July 23. Mean-
while, the support and influence of ev-
ery voter in the 86th District will be
most heartily appreciated. It is my in-
tention to personally present my can-
didacy to every voter possible before
the election date, and to this end I ex-
pect to visit even the smaller communi-
ties of the district before the cam-
paign ends.”
Born in Jefferson County, Texas,
on July 1, 1907, Taylor was educated
in the Port Arthur Public Schools. His
legal education was gained by studying
into the early morning hours after he
was the father of children. For the past
three years he has been practicing law
in Kerrville. He also owns and oper-
ates an abstract and title plant, and is
the owner of considerable real estate
holdings in Kerr county.
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Will Mohair Loans
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cost of production, should a grower
be forced to sell his product
Holding to the belief that govern-
ment lending op a commodity is in
fact pegging a price for such commor
dity, to be used by speculators and
mill interests in securing clips at give-
away prices, is apparent to us at this
time, or else history will not repeat
itself.
True ranchmen raising mohair might
keep their clips free from this lending
program, yet they will be forced to
accept a price in the long run for their
hair that has been established through
such a course, that is in fact foreign
to any good and legitimate business
set up.
For any person to prosper in busi-
ness, in farming, in ranching, then
such person must secure a fair profit
above the cost of production, and since
the downward trend of mohair has
pushed it to the bottom, no grower
in the country will be able to realize
a penny from his flocks, even if a
price of 30 cents for grown hair might
prevail.
While a price of 35 and 45 cents
might have been established had a
loan value been granted as asked for
by the directors of the Texas Angora
Goat Raisers’ Association, yet we felt
that such a loan would have allowed
the grower a few dollars on his invest-
ments, had these figures been set for
such loans, but it now appears that
loans on mohair will be practically
that which is loaned on long wool, in
original bag, and if this procedure is
■followed, the mohair man might as well
console himself in the fact that he had
little to do with a program that will
certainly spell ruin, for the safe price
of hair will be pegged by buyers at
around that which is loan on mohair.
May be a cent or So above loans will
be offered.
It was announced at Washington
Monday that loans on mohair would
be 19 to 30 cents, and C. J. Fawcett,
general manager of the Wool Credit
Corporation remarked, “this is better
"han none at all.” Right here we beg
‘o differ with Mr. Fawcett, for to make
the loans 19 cents on grown hair will
•ertainly peg the selling price at that
ooint, or near it.
To prove our contentions were ab-
->ut right in the matter, we call atten-
Sonora warehouse
Has Large Tonnage
Fred T. Earwood and Bill Fields,
of the Sonora Wool & Mohair Com-
pany, tfcere in Rocksprings Tuesday,
and stated that the recent freezing
weather and high winds in the Sonora
section did not do near the damage
as was at first reported.
Mr. Fields stated that from informa-
tion gathered here and there over the
county, little damage, other than to
pecans, fruits and garden stuff was ex-
perienced by the citizens of the coun-
ty. He stated that at first it was
thought that heavy losses were exper-
ienced by the stockraisers in deaths
from exposure to lambs and kids, yet
on final check-up he is satisfied that
few in that section of the country ex-
perienced losses, about that which are
normally experienced during the early
spring.
Mr. Earwood stated that the pecan
crop, first reported totally destroyed,
will in all probability be only around
a 60 per cent loss, as many budded
trees in sections where some protection
was had, will no doubt produce fair
crops this year, provided another freeze
does not hit them.
Mr. Earwood further stated that the
irush in that section of the country
was not badly frozen, and is fast coming
back. “True,” says Mr. Earwood,
“much of it is severely blistered on
the north side of the growth, yet tak-
ing it as a whole, very little damage
is reported by ranchmen to the brush
and live oak timber throughout Sutr
ton county.”
* These gentlemen say that if a good
rain would fall over the county in the
next week or so, very little damage
would be noted to the brush and grass,
and ample feed would be apparent
over all the range districts.
There are approxmately 326,000
pounds of mohair in the warehouse at
this time, and we gather from remarks
made by Messrs. Earwood and Fields,
that the accumulations will be held for
a much better price than is offered at
this time.
Taking the matter from a clean-basis
stand, mohair at present prices is go-
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mg at about one-half the price* being*
paid for long wool, clean basis, deliv-
ered Boston.
This sort of thing, it appears, is turn-
ing the table around to the hurt of
mohair, for when It gets to a poiftt
where the commodity is selling at a
lower figure (than wool, clean basis,
something is wrong in Denmark.
During the different hearings at
Washington, we note where little was
ever recorded by men supposed to be
looking after mohair interests' there,
favorable to the mohair industry. It
being apparent all the while, that wool
was being thought of and promoted,
first, last and all the time.
When asked just what they thought
of the proposed loans on mohair,
Messrs. Earwood and Fields merely
shook their heads, as much as to say
that they, like thousands of grow-
ers of mohair, were not in favor of the
schedule loans set out for mohair.
Naturally they feel that this matter
is up to the individual grower, and he
can do with his clips as he pleases,
yet they both fear the result will be
rather trying if loans range from 19
to 32 cents on mohair, and any large
tonnage is tied up under this pro-
gram.
Nearly every business man we have
approached on this matter, familiar
with market conditions, feels that the
loan value, placed on raw fibres to be
woven into finished materials, will in
a great measure set the market prices
for these materials, and certainly the
speculators and mill interests will take
advantage of the bad conditions, that
force ranchmen to secure some ad-
vances on their clips.
C.H.GILMER
Insurance Agency
IVAN B. SMART, Manager
Fire and Life
Insurance
CALIFORNIA WESTERN
STATES LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
GULF and”°r"e PUBLIC
FIRE INSURANCE
materials are given in the automobile
and when used in covering furniture
And of late, it has been demon-
strated beyond a shadow of a doubt
that woolen goods, if woven with a
mixture of mohair, make a much bet
ter flat material, that will last much
longer, take more punishment, and
still maintain that degree of beauty
the general publi^ demands in the
better class of wearing apparel.
Bed coverings, drapes of every de-
scription as well as many other items
calling for the better class of weav-
es, should be in greater favor when
the patterns show a mixture contain-
ing a high percentage of mohair.
Taking the matter from any angle,
we are not in favor of a loan on mo-
hair that will not guarantee a price to
the producer sufficient to take care
of his actual cost in producing the
fibre, for in the end we are confident
that the sale price to be offered, and
finally accepted, will be based abso-
lutely'on the loan values of such fibres,
and we can look for little relief thru
a lending agency, government or ot-
herwise, that will not provide actual
tion to the fact that grown hair sold
Monday at 23 cents; kid hair 35 cents.
This shows that the woolen promoters
negged the price of mOhair at that
which long wool is going at, and it is
based on the loans announced on long
wool and grown mohair.
Good grades of long wool are selling
at better prices than mohair, as we go
to press.
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Eugene Smith was the victim of a
very painful accident Wednesday af-
ternoon, when an axe with which he
was cutting wood, struck a small twig
and deflected, entering the inside of
his right foot, inflicting a very deep
and large cut. He was brought to the
Welch Hospital late in the afternoon,
where the wound was sewed up, and
is now at the hospital, on account of
his having lost a large amount of
blood before he arrived here for
treatment.
—Fresh stocks of fruits and vege*
tables will be found at the friendly
store of Owens A Mbore. We deliver.
Phone 12. y:y / "ry.;.
Feed
A Complete Stock
Get Our Prices Before Buying
We Meet All Competition, Which Is
Based On Cash
H. V. Stokes Feed Co.
H. V. (Buzrie) Stoke.
SONORA, TEXAS
PHONE 89
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