Today in History: Oct. 11, 2000 - Wool gathering is not just a daydream

Today in History revisits the Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of two Cavalier County women from Hannah, North Dakota, who started a wool processing business. NORTH DAKOTA BUSINESS Wool gathering is not just daydream ■ Hannah, N.D., area women develop wool processing business By Steve Foss Herald Staff Writer HANNAH, N.D. — Two Cavalier County women have found a way to help their deep-rooted families stay on the farm. They've just got to be patient a little while longer. Five years of no profit from a value-added supplemental business will force a person to take the long view, but wool processors Diane Schill and Janet Jacobson say they'll soon turn a profit. In a 1,200-square-foot room carved out of the Schills' large Quonset shop, the two women take raw wool in hand, wash it, dry it and send it through picking and carding machines. They sell rolled balls of wool called roving to people who want to spin