Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-20

cents pound, and sells 1t at seventy
cents pound, how much VIII ne make
n John: Two hundred thousand dollars!
Teacher: Right You may go up head,
: Now, we will all agree, that two hun
dred thousand dollars Is q comfortable
sum to have. 60 VI
cLEANsED OR SECURED ELEEcEs.
It is clear, that the writer in the Econ
omist never saw the tabular statement,
nubljshed by the Ohio State Board of
Agriculture in their Report for 1860, OF
the fieeces secured under their auspices, |
contained on pages 1885, 134 and l35, or,
he never would have ventured the asser-
! tion as he has done, that "the fleece has
never vet been produced which would
produce 8 lbs of well secured wool. we
| commend il to his notice, not only Tor
the correction of that error but also as
containing other valuable information.
we have often heard Of offers by WOOL
buyers to pay FIVE hundred dollars and
other large sums of money to any one
who would find them n fleece that would
scour more than five pounds, then more
than six pounds, then more than seven
pounds, and now this writer has got up
to eight pounds. but when the thing 1s
done we don't hear OF the money pelng
paid. -
At the convention, held in Newark
two wears ago on the evenings during
the time of the State shearing, 1t was
resolved, that "the good Ohio wools were
worth eighty cents perpound that year,
This resolution was source OF much
pretended amusement to the wool-puyers.
But it will be remembered that, during
IL = s.. 4 ~ N.,ny
buyers present, and there were num-
bcT of them, were invited to give their
opinions as to what the price would be
for the clip of that year. Several OF
them did so. ,
They expressed the opinion that forty
cents per pound would be the price OF the
"rood woods of Ohio" for that year, anu
they hootcd at the idea of its being any
hiphcr. 1t will also be remembered, that
: lobored articles were published at the
instance of wool-buyeIs and the manu-
! facturers, lust as is now the case, sucn as
tho ones by "Statisticus" in the state
2 Journal and Ohio Cultivator, in which
,. the same ground was taken that cllp
l could not possibly bring more than forty
D cents per pound. Now, what was ihe
'. result? We obtained for our wool tiat
;, year an average OF sixty-flVe Genus Per
u nound. II is true we did not get eighty
c cents but we got sixty-five. And, we
;. know that before the price settled down
i TO sixty-fyc cents some of the manlliac-
!, turers. becoming hard up forwool to keep
IL running. sent out orders for small guam
J, titles which were filed by purchasing, IN
" some instances, inferior clips at seventy
y cents per pound. So that, although SIX.
IL ty-five cents, the ultimate price, Is no'
:. eighty cents, there is certainly q dl1fer
Is euce between that and the wool-buyers
10 price. forty cents and our resolution
1s awaited us to the extent of that difference
N "A difference of only Twenty-Five cent
as nor Mound. So much for that amusing
vi resolution.
III PRICES FOR THIS CLIP.
a. The same subject comes up again thl
H. wear. How much will we get lor ou
y, woods" and the same efforts to put dow
X, the M ice to less than the value are be
inc industriously made. That is tn
re woy TO account for woOl-buyers meeting
~. and such newspaper articles as the on
DC we have been considering in the Econt
er mist. Every country merchant, that ha
,lo ever had an agency to buy wool, come
n home froryi the East this Spring we
' n9 stuffed upon this subject, ana goes !
II work TO retail what he has been taugh
III like parrot its lesson. The tnveillh
sly npcnts. also, of the manufacturers haV
ice been along I'm advance of the shearnI
iS; for the purpose of forestalling opinio
MI while everything Is quiet, and they tai
rs. very glibly about the low prlce that niu
ny rule for wool this year; about the 10
, SO prices and dullness i'm the market !;
ou, wooden goods; about the enormous GU
on and the greatly increased amount
,ks wool produced this year, about the tari
sht having had no effect at all, and they to-
ooi MS IL would be so before it was passet
WI or and they can blow hot and cold upt
w this subject, that all to be produced
IN IN the tariff has already been produced al
ny that the prices they propose for wool, 81
tli Iie forty-iive cents per pound ana tnei
M ms abouts, are enormously high ana una
fnr for allthese reasons ana otners llkc .l,e'
iVr our woods must be put in first-rate conc
we tion--iust so-and-so, or they VIII not b'
=, them at all, and they have signed
thc agreement to that effect, &c. And II Il
'ooi wonder they have not had something
ced saw this year as In other years, about
nan price OF gold and its effects upon wo
pro- never to make 1t any higher, but aiwa
u rs II good reason to make lt lower u
ti'o t'o that, rather than pay us oniy lair @ co.
the nensotory price they will go to Sou
'pe- America, the Cape of Good Hope,
'aSe some other cheap wool-producing ccou
leep try where labor costs nothing, ana |
une p0rt those foreign woods to keep IN
we mills running But we hear nothi
reEs from them this year on these last pom
,nt and can only account lor III ny supPosi
'hnt that the price gold continues to mainta
we settles the one; and the new Tariff, III
.ne ing gone into operation, settles the 9th
Ihat KEEp YOUR WOOL. AT HOME.
II III The very hest place to sell your CLIP
hol i'm YOUR own barn or wool-house. \
can have 1t in better order and look
lceu nicer IL you take pains in handling
hore and Keeping off dust and dirt, But
)een not, because you have your wool at hoI
anu neglect to inform yourself OF eVeryth
ana that is going on. Keep yourself pos
ossi- as to who Is selling and who is not, W
l 10 the prices are, and for what clips, Z
we have been actually paid or offered,
'ace, Consult with your neighboring W.
any growers, and go OUT visit your MAJ,
uoes town, and see for yourself. And WI
OF the buyer comes to look at your wool
tory he will be sure to do by and by, 1t
er 10 complains that your iieeces are too hea
VI too oily, or says anything else about th
'ooi, calculated to cheaper your clips, II
eii.s feel conscious that you have done
why duty, and know, rs you certainly v
eater better than anybody else, that your
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