Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-29
NUMBER 26.
from The Ohio Farmer. July 99.l
The Wool Trade.


week has been a reasonably busy one in
Ohio-that Is, busy as compared with the
prior weeks since shearing time. A good
deal of wool has changed hands at prices
ranging from 55 to 62e, but mostly ut 60c
and shade under. Some few choice clips
here and there one only-have been sold
at 65c. From Licking we are informed that
buyers are meeting with more success, but
all refuse to offer over Coo. In Greene
county, as we learn from letters, the great
bulk Of the wool has changed hands at an
average under 60c. In Huron and Erie the
Sandusky buyers are purchasing freely
one of them closing the other day wool
trade with an eastern house of over $4,000
pounds, which had cost him an average Of
6754c. The SGndusky Register thus notes one
days trade there; .'Qyer 25,00O pounds of
wool were purchased by our wool-buyers
yesterday. OF that amount G. c. Keech
alone took In over 5000 lbs! iAmonga
few of the lots we would make particular
mention of the following clips: A. Hollister,
22S7 pounds; Mr.. Fisher, 1898 pounds; J.
Foreman, 1857 pounds; J. B. Wits, 1900
pounds; E. Caswell, 1852 pounds; p. Root,
3l53 pounds; G.. Caswell, 3l62 pounds; J.
,Snowden, $40 pounds. All at sixty cents
per pound. Where is the town that can
beat us, or the county that can show heavier
clips?" From the Harrison and Jefferson
region we have no report this week. mgG3
In Western Pennsylvania the trade has
opened, as we learn by the following from
the last Washtngton Reporter: "After a good
deal of hesitation the wool trade of our
county has at last opened, though as yet
the crop is going off slowly. Up until with
in the last week or so, buyers and producers
were so far apart that no sales were made;
but since that we have heard Gof several
thousand pounds being bought at prices
ranging, from. fifty to ninety cents, Accord
ing to quality. We are glad to note one
feature in the trade this year which has
been wanting for several years past, and
that is, a disposition on the part of buyers to
make more discrimination on account Of
quality and condition than has been their
habit heretofore" '7 ie9
OF the marketin New York, The Econo-
mist of Saturday remarks: "The activity
which we noticed last week has continued
through this now ended, and prices are
tending upward; nor is it considered spirit
which is soon to be followed by reaction
and another downward tendency, but it is
looked upon as steady gain, and some OF
our shrewdest and most cautious dealers
have improved the opportunity of low
prices by purchasing some of the best lots
in the market, and willJno doubt make
handsome profits. Old wool is getting
quite scarce, and the new clip comes In very
slowly and the small lots are quickly sold as
they arrive. 1t long time since the mar
ket was so bare of wool as at the present,
and the holders of good wool are not at all
anxious to sell. In fact there are few
old lots in the city that are not in the mar
ket, but are held in the confident eXpecta-
tion that higher figures will yet be reach
ed; and we must admit that the upward
tendency in the price of every desirable
kind of woolens and worsteds, and the great
scarcity of many desirable kinds, the up
ward tendency of wool in Europe, the rapid
sale in Berlin, and the fact that low woods
at that sale brought good prices, 60 to as
sure us that the ball has begun to move,
and we would advise our friends to stand
out of the way, or they may get their toes
crushed. Wequote domestic Fleece as fol-
lows: choice Ohio and Pennsylvania, rs to
S0c,-this is exceedingly good and light,
and well adapted for good broadcloths and
the. best of cassimeres, and lower grades of
the same States, suitable for tweeds, shawls,
tlannels, Scotch mixes, Union cloth, from
60 to 70c.; good Michigan is worth 70e.;
- while the lower grades can be bought as
low as 60c.; and some quarter-blooded new
clip could be bought at 55c.; York State,
some very light and choice old clipis worth
70c.; while other lots are held from 90 to
Csc, condition regulating the price more
than the quality; Western from 80 to &C.,;
Combing, IS to 70c.; California fine unwash-
ed, 80 to 42c.; common, 20 to 25c.; pulled ex-
ira 60 to 70c.; super, GA to 6Sc.; No. l, go to
Csc. Foreign descriptions 80 to
40c.; Australian secured, SIC. to 81; grease,
80 to 47c. Cape secured, s. to &c.; grease,
35 to 44c." - ''
In Boston The Shipping List says the de-
mand for domestic wool has been quite ac-
tive and the sales are only limited by the
small stock on the market. Prices are no
higher but very firm, with rather anupward
tendency. Manufacturers are taking all lots
offering at the current rates, and the sales
comprise $50, 900 lbs. of fleece and pulled at
from % to 75c. .per pound, as to quality, the
fleece ranging from 30 to 72c, and the super
and extra pulled 60 to 75c.p per pound. In
cluded in the sales were about $4,000 lbs.
new and fine Michigan at ga to 65c.; $4,000
lbs. old do medium quality, at 621 So; about
100000 lbs. New York State, Michigan and
other Western, from 5S to 65c., including va
rious lots; some lots of new Maine at 65 to
671ac.; $4,000 lbs. fine Ohio alto to 72c, but
no really choice lots of Ohio or Pennsylya-
mia on the market; 100000 super and extra
at 60 to 65c.; and a number of other small
sales at prices noticed in the range above.
The market closes very firm for all kinds
of domestic, with stocks very much reduc-
ed. The. new clip remains the same as
previously noticed. The extrme prices
asked prevent any movements, and manu-
facturers are now picking up all the lots of
old wool Offering, besides turning their at
tention to Cape and Mestizo. idl 9Ai1tu1
In Philadelphia the newclip begins to be :
received, and prices during the past week
ranged from 55 to 5Sc. for Illinois and Indi-
ana, and 6S to 73c.. tor finer grades show