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The CHAIRMAN: What shall be done with this report? 



MR. SEXTON: I moA'e it be received and placed on file. 



Motion duly seconded and agreed to. 



The CHAIRMAN: Next in order is the report of the Committee on 

 Roads and Road Laws. 



The SECRETARY: Is Mr. Knuppeuburg in the room? Yes; I see 

 he is. I wish to state that we would like to have the Commissioner 

 of Highways or his Deputy present when this paper is read. They 

 are both out of the city today, but will be here tomorrow. Will you 

 be here tomorrow, Mr. Knuppenburg? 



MR. KNUPPENBURG: Yes, sir. 



The SECRETARY: Then I move that this paper be held. over until 

 tomorrow, because there will be a great many questions that should 

 be referred to them. 



Motion duly seconded and agreed to. 



The CHAIRMAN: We will take the nest paper on the program, 

 the Report of the Committee on Wool and Textile Fibres, by D. S. 

 Taylor, Chairman. 



Mr. Taylor read his report, as follows: 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WOOL AND TEXTILE 



FIBRES. 



BY Mr. D. S. Taylor, Chairman. 



Your Committee would report that there has been some increase in 

 the production of wool in the United States, as well as in the State 

 of Pennsylvania. But there should be more wool produced in Penn- 

 sylvania, because some parts of our State produce better wool than 

 can be produced in any part of the United States. And as we im- 

 port a large amount of wool into the United States of different 

 grades, we should produce in this country enough of wool to fill the 

 demands of our manufacturers in the United States, and have wool 

 for export, rather than import it. 



The wool production of the United States in the year 1904 was 

 291,783,032 pounds; imported in 1904, 249,135,746 pounds; 540,918,778 

 pounds. 



We take it that this amount was manufactured in the United 

 States, as we do not find we export any wool. 



The production of wool in the United States was, in 1905, 295,488,- 

 438 pounds; 1904, 291,783,032 pounds; an increase of 3,705,406 

 pounds. 



