Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1901, Page 19

Chat with Man Who Owns a Million opyright, 1901, by Frank G. Carpenter.) (\ yoNeY , Aus- worth a great deal. 1 have some sheep tralia May 8 which will average seven and a half pounds 11 (Spe : to the fleece, and 1 think by bre ding that clal corre spondence of Bee)—~I had a t the other day h the sheep king Australia, the big t sheep owner of great sheep mtinent Aus tlia is the wool nter of the world has more than 1,000,000 sheep and cuts enough wool om their backs to ing in $100,000,000 year It has som: f the largest flocks f sheep ever gath red to her. Job's ittle upon 1,008 s cannot compa vith them The ire 100 men in New South Wales alone who each own 50,000 bead; there are hun- I can increase this to fifteen pounds per fleece. 1 have had sheep which produced as much as forty-five pounds of wool at one shearing, and at one time we cut fifty- two pounds of wool from one of our Ver mont rams, and thirty-five pounds from a ewe. I have distributed the Vermont sheep through my flocks both in New South Wales and in Queensland, and the result is a con- siderable increase in the clip We find that the sheep which come from a cross of the Vermont and the Australian retain their wool much longer than the Australian sheep.” I wish I could show you some of the sheep exhibited at the Sydney sheep show. There were in ¢1l 700, representing every part of Australia Four hundred of these were Merinos, being in the fine wool class, and 300 were fat sheep entered in the « mmpeti tion in the class for frozen mutton Every sheep at the show was worth several hun dred dollars Among the latter was My McCaughey's $5,000 ram, which took first prize. It was a great oblong bundle of wool dreds more who have With a pair of big horns at one end of it A FIVE THOUSAND-DOLLAR RAM ) , The wool lay on it In fclds and rolls, the 0,000, 400 who each 9 Aads rQ rolls, the f > Y 8 t have 10,000 and many skin apparently wrinkling itself in order FOPC. that Germany, takes leas than four pounds ot wool to that it might ald re ars v Elum and France bought their wool make a suit of clothes, and for a cent you \ \‘l:(;}] ”,““, A0 'H_ of entirely hlnLh;' nlly.lvl :‘;,'(.n wm:;ls '-;:;l; “‘v.u:)‘I Australia London Now can carry the wool for the suit from Aus I'here “i'l)l"v llx\‘\I:t[‘llV'\dr came out three inches over its cyes and <ountry sends its own buyers and the most tralla to London. The Hnlllnt: N-nm-h: of one men in this there were small holes in it through which ©f them deal directly with the commission the wool fleet go around the Cape of Good tate who each own the eyes looked out. I stuck my finger 88ents of Sydney. Hope, while the steamers, as a rule, travel 100,000 sheep ana FRANK G. CARPENTER into the flecce and could just touch the Qne-Fourth Cent o Pound. vis the )B“"" SRAR, THD BHOTLONC "'“";' ds McCaughey, the king ‘P"“ without putting my whole fist into it It 4 e BeAb1 e i over 11,000 miles, nn‘(l the carrying of four ¢ them ,||',' has more than 1,000,000 brought $2,600. 1In 1897 W. H. Gloson sold The wool hung down In great bunches on " :!"I"vr! ng now cheaply the wool can pounds 11,000 miles for 1 cent 5 one of th One Million Sheep. the ram “Royallst' for $5,000, and in 1804 the belly and the legs were covered clear 0® taken ';‘;"‘ "“;"”‘"“ to London. wonders of modern clvilization. Think what 1,000,000 sheep means! Let Thomas Gibson sold “Admiral” for 1,600 to the hoofs. On the outside the wool was ;l‘e'mnfny "In("? “10'"“'“ and there are The prices of wool vary according fo * fhem weigh 1060 pounds apiece and they Euineas, or §7,600. At these sales hundreds of a dirty color, but when I pulled ft aside ee! 'OS“ ng'\ahsl‘w 8 vnz:flmd in the busi- quality. The coarse wool will often bring vould give enough mutten to furnish a °f Sheep sold from $100 to $1,000, and many and looked in, it was of a rich creamy :'"“' ""“" "m'": “‘T;‘"“ rs are of 10,000 only 13 or 14 cents, while the fine bHrings lice to every man. woman and child in the 0l between $1,000 and $5,000. In 1836 white. The strands of wool were spiral 13"0";0":"'“ ‘Vs‘ will carry as much as as much as 30 and 35 cents. There ure United States and leave enough for an Irish Mr. Gibson got on the average $830 for the and springy and very fine, ‘." A kn ”'000 omle of the nulllinsz vessels certaln brands of wool, known by the tow for our whole nation next day. The Sheep he brought to the sale, and in 18%0 In some of the stalls I saw ewes which " - etz&h b; °:> -.l‘"l? the competition names of their owners, which always bring ‘ool upon them would clathe the people of NS aVeragy was $1,690, while in 1899 he re- had thirty pounds of wool on them, and :h::tm:. _'0““:": :' re 'f“"'l'e 1s ""Wl Just iy e \ y one of your clties, with the exception, celved on the average $1,200. This will everywhere I heard the praises of our Ver- d a cent per pound. (Continued on Eighth Page) rhaps, of New York or Chicago, and they uld annually produce enough pet lambs for the Marys of half the United States. All these sheep are owned by Samuel Me- Caughey, an Irishman, who came to Aus- tralia in 1836 with practically nothing. He led at first and started again with a Il flock and from year to year has added his holdings until he has now more 'op than any other man in the world has more acres of land than sheep and pessessions are In the best parts of tralia. T am told that one of his farms the Darling Downs {s thirty-six miles ng and forty miles wide. He has other tatlons in New South Wales and altogether he owns more than 1,000,000 acres and ases about 1,000,000 or so more. Hlis es- tates are fenced off with wire into great paddocks, in which the sheep are kept. He has sunk artesian wells to supply them th water and he imports the firest of rmont rams to improve his ustock, At shearing he sold 1,250,000 pounds of 0l and at another the product amounted t0.12,000 bales. Some of his ordinary sheep ive cut as much as twenty-two pounds of show you that it pays to breed fine sheep in Australla, and will give you some idea of the enormous value of Mr. McCaughey's holdings, many of the sheep belng very fine. Sheep King Likes Vermont Ramas, Mr. McCaughey believes that the best rams for Australian sheep are those from Vermont There 18 a large lmportation of such sheep every year, and there are Amer- fcans who make a business of taking sheep across the Pacific to Australin for sale. They choose the finest and best bred Ver- mont Merinos, ship them to Puget Sound and thence by steamer to Sydney. Several shipments have been made around the Cape of Good Hope, but as a rule the latter route is too long and the sheep sometimes dle on the way. In my chat with Mr. McCaughey he told me that he had been Importing Vermont rams for almost twenty years., Sald he: “l went to Vermont first in 1886 and picked out 120 ewes and forty rams. 1 sent them to Australia and used them for breeding The following spring I went back and brought 102 more sheep, and since mont sheep. I asked one man whether the sheep did not lose their wool from genera- tion to generation in so warm a country as New South Wales. He replied that they did, and that the bringing in of cold-climate sheep, such as “the Vermonts,"” prevented this. 4 b atters, The sheep owners, or squatters, as they are called, were all well dressed and well educated men. There were hundreds of crowd of Yankee business men than any- thing else, and at the dinner which was glven they made speeches in response to toasts which were as gocd as you will hear anywhere. They were all landholders and many had farms which would be con sidered principalitics in the United States but which are looked upon as quite small here. For instance, I asked as to whether the vice president had a large station The reply was that he had not, and that his possessions all told comprise@ only about 66,000 acres of land Another man was pointed out who owned 200,000 acres and another who had half a milllon acres, all under fence. In the Wool Wareh Sydney is the chief wool market of Aus tralla. It ships hundreds of milllons of pounds of wool to Burope every year and 1t has some of the largest wool warchouses in the world. Let us take a walk through | one of them We are In a great room covering many acres. It is roofed with glass and upon Its floors are thousands of bales of wool. Each bale is as high as your shoulder, It 1s wrapped In yellow | bagging, but the top is open and the white wool seems to have burst forth and to bhe pouring out upon the floor. It is marked with the station from where it comes | In other parts of the warchousc are mountains of wool which have heen taken | out of the bales, and In other places the men are repacking the wool for shipment, Come with me to one of those piles and examine {t. See how dirty and greasy the wool 18, The sheep are not washed hefore shearing and the wool 18 exported as |t comes from thelr backs, the cleaning be- ing done after it reaches the Furopean markets, Thrust your hand Into the pile, Now look at ft! It shines as though it were coated with vaseline and your cuff beautiful pictures in colors them at the show. They looked more like a | handsome in any home The Bee has secured a series of beauti ful reproductions of famous paintings and picture s are all suitable for framing and will look The first of the se ries will be PHARAOH’S HORSES This is a copy of the painting of the English artist, John Frederick Herring, and is probably the most famous picture of its kind. The heads of these noble animals are executed with remarkable vigor, and the lithographic copy is most \tisfactory How to Get Them re 21 by 20 inches and have never been sold at the art stores for en CUT OUT THIS COUPON Present at Bee Office or mall this coupon with 15¢c and get your cholce of Photographic Art Studies, When ordering by mail add 6c for postage ART DEPARTMENT, e ING CO, OMANA, ART is soiled with the grease. Selling Wool in Sydney, One of the curtous features of Sydney |8 its wool sales. Everything 1s sold at aue- | s byl g AT S tlon. The sales take place in November, These pleture A THREE THOUSAND-DOLLAR EWE December and January, when buyers from less than one dollar By securing an immense quantity of them we are able to offer wool and at a recent shearing twenty-five then I bave bought quite a lot of Vermont PBugland and the continent and from the them average P8 : A . stock. My pure Vermont sheep now num- ['pited States and Japan come here to bid, ‘:;tl‘;r:dl‘(:lmll“:.\'h:’:;()“(::yl'IH““,‘::,l‘,l::,h;‘l (::L ber about 2,000 head and I have sold many The buyers wear long overalls an? lnen | With a Coupon for ls CentSO r “"';l hhv:llr show h'u\l “' ]llr.‘-(-:. upon "; during the last ten years.' coats, while examining the wool. They go Als which, he told 1 4 ;\ It, a1kt lh r‘l’ -five “But s It not expensive to get the sheep from hale to bale, taking notes of each When ordering state the name of the subjeet, and if they are to be mailed [:u\lnll.fi ‘Il;ll -.|y).,.:,“.i ,:‘ ‘\. '1"» ;i ;» 000 here from Vermont? I asked man's stock, In order that they may know | close six cents additional for postage and packing. for the shu‘[,‘ he 1rrl\|<:u| \(ll‘ ARSI "' “Yes, My first importation, not includ- how much to offer for it in the auction It g : } ing the cost of the sheep, footed up $45,000, rooms. As many as 10,000 bales are some- Ry will surprise our farmers to know that byt | think that the results have fully jus- times sold in a day, and single sales will : 4 8 l':l)l An uncommon thing in Australla (jfied the expenditures. ! vatue my Ver- foot up as much as $750,000 ( ““:: ll_\[:»dvfl ram to sell for $2,000 and up- mont flock at 60 guineas a head. 1 have 1 chatted with Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, eur A here are sheep sales here every sold some of them at 500 guineas, or $2,600. one of the largest wool dealers of Sydney, ihmr o “b_l' h the best stock Is s0ld at auc- [ gold a ram today for $2,000, and I have about the business. He tells me a fow s I“'“'I 8 "‘:”"‘l'"' of instances have oc- sold ewes as high as $7%0." years ago almost all the wool of Australla ART DF ( - " which rams have sold for «f g, se that the chief profit come hipped direct by th - o) v £ Y v y ppose 14 he chief pro comes was shippe re y the squatters to Lon < v ‘ llfih;\.: vn!n-;n, or more than $0,000 each. from the improvement of your own flock,” don, and there resold and reshipped. At | THE Bl-‘E pUBleHlNG (’OMPANY' * before me the highest prices of gqiq | present the greater part of the product is | 17th a Farnam S ‘ ;::‘ 1'..3:. P:;, .h.lhs! during the past ten years. «yes, That's where the money is,” replied semt to commission agents at the ports, the t nd a Sts. § BOL sheep were sold from $1,600 Np McCaughey. “I think my crossing my Sydney brokers shipping about 400,000 hales ’ f W " P u?il: “0:0 a;,“?' In 1891 the highest price precds with the Vermont sheep has added annually. Mr. Winchcombe and his part- We have l"“"'l‘." a large number of frames for The Bee pic \dent ::‘:;o'b';“""" ”“’“G:g" ram ‘;:’g" at least & pound of wool per shcep a year mer sell about $7,000,000 worth of wool, | tures and are offering them at a special price. Call a0 gee them, 4 Smes son, #old for 1o my flocks. You see I have about 1,000,- skins and other such things every year, IS T |7 ) 1B $ \ 2 ,000, SIS ? 3D ) ) ahis $8,000, while one of Mr. McCaughey's sheep 000 sheep and an increase of this kind 1s and their dealings are with all parts of Eu- ROSITS ART STORE, 1521 Dodge 8t., Omaha, Neh