The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-14

Wool dealers do not press woel upon
the market so much as they did o few
months ago, but they still manifest o
good deal of anxiety to sell, and SO long
as they are more, anxious to sell than
manufacturers are to buy, prices will be
in favor of the buyer.
Fine woods are very scarce, in fact
there are very few fine choice lots upon
the market, while for ! and blood there
is good supply, but of this good con-
ditioned and well grown wool is not at
all plentiful. Medium grades are now,
to a great extent dead letter, and VIII
continue to be SO until next spring.
Coarse wosls are we'll sold up. Canada
combing is by no means plentiful, and
domestic oombing is getting very scarce.
Pulled wool is not in demand at present
to auy very great extent, and foreign
wool il entirely out of the question.
The market has so long been dull that
| IL reouires no small amount of faith to
believe that an active trade Will ever
be recorded, OF to suppose that man
ufacturer will ever enter a store and
lcave it without purchasing. We have
40 long had to write dull and depressed
that the continuation of it produces
dullness and depression, not only to our
spirits, but to our minds; and we must
confess that we feel very much at the
present time like some. of our friends
who didn't gain Republican victory,
somewhat down in the mouth. While
large number of wool dealers feel
with regard to the wool market during
the fall, like the man who last Tuesday
night retired to his slumbers and the
pleasantest of dreams, under the I'M
preston that he was elected to Office,
and awoke in the morning to learn that
he was defeated, very much disappoint-
ed, and somewhat more than disappoint,,
ed, for the disappointment has involved
serious loss of money.
We have now had three years in which
wool mep have seriously suffered-cer-
tainly few have made money-and we
learn that there are some who, having
become Disguised with business which
has only involved them in loss, now
feel like retiring. 1t must be evident to
every one, however, that the wool bus
mess is no exception-that every branch
of business has failed within the last
two years. 1t is true that other agri-
cultural produce has not fallen like
wool; but it must be remembered that
that is food and wool is for clothing.
Hunger demands the first supply, cloth
ing secondary; hence there are more
who are willing to speculate in food
than the raw material for clothing.
The sales for the week include BOO, 900
lbs fleece, mainly at 3Sa40, including
II, 900 lbs Ohio at 52ic; 5000 do COM
mon, 40c; 100000 do Texas. 1Sa27c, in
Guiding selected and No. / at Soc; 1000
lbs extra pulled on private terms; Is
bales pulled, 36a35c; 25 do do, 34a3 lc;
16 do do, 32a34c; 10000 lbs California,
15a20c for BURY, and 20a3O for free.
We quote pulled No. at 25a3Oc; super,
35a40c; and extra, 40a50c. Besides the
above, there are 10000 lbs Ohio on pri-
vate terms; 5000 do, 4Oc; 10000 lbs extra
Ohio, Acc: 10000 do on private terms;
2O, 900 lbs extra Ohio on private terms,
and 10000 do, SOC. No sales of foreign
have been reported.
| DETROIT, MICH.
The market, says the Tribune of Sat
urday last, is still very much depressed,
and there is nothing new or encourag-
ing to report for the grower or dealers.
1t appears that as yet prices have
scarcely touched bottom, for they are
still settling. Dealers here now offer
but 35c for the best clips, as that is the
highest rate the condition of the eastern
market will allow them to pay. The
trade is still overstocked with goods
: Tho manufacturing interests are still
very much depressed, and of course con.
troll the wool market as to price.