The Portland daily press., 1877-12-06
The woot marrres

Boston, Dec. 5.-[Reported for the sPress. THE
following is list OF prices quoted this afternoon:
SOC; do choice Xxx Al a Acc; do fine AZ a 44c me-
dunn 4S q 45c coarse 81 q SOC; Michigan extra and
Xxx SO a 32c; fine 50 a SOC; medium 40 q 42c; COM
mon IS a $50; other Western fine and x So q 41c;
medium 80 q 4lc, common IS q &c., pulled extra
80 a 43c; superfne 80 "a 46; No /, 20 g 25e; comb
ing fleece IS a SIC; Fine delaine 80 "a 55c California
Is a 34c; Texas 20 q &c. Canada pulle6 IS q 45c do
combing 48 a 81; Smyrna washed IL 9 30c do I'M
washed 10 q zoe; Buenos Ayres Is q 34c; Cape Good
Hope % az 3Oc; Australian AZ q 4Ic; Donskol III q
The market is steady for all kinds Of domestic
Wool, and we notice fair demand from manufac-
turers. The principal inquiry is for medium fieeces
and combing and delaine selections. The latter is
scarce and held quite firm with supplies taken as
fast graded. There is no prospect OF any 1aVora-
ble but stocks are becoming gradually reduced and
Notwithstanding the unsatisfactory state OF the goods
market, the consumption Of raw material continues
any other description, but holders are not pressing
sales. The transactions include ONO ana Pennsyi-
yana at 42i a ACC for x, medium and AA; ~ q a2c
for Wisconsin and Michigan. as to quality; dela1ne
and combing selections at 47c for coarse and oO g 55c
for good and choice and super and pulled at 81 g
acc ID, as to quality California Wool ranges from
egn Wool nothing of amp consequence has been DONE
Imports from January to Nov Nov "a. ,,o-z
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In New York the intervention Of holiday has had
the usual effect Of reducing the volume of trade, but
still the aggregate business reported is fair prices
have remained steady, no changes of any import
ance having occurred. The sales are 500 lbs Aus
ralan lambs At 25c; 1900 lbs spring California q
Gle; 1900 lbs Western Texas, 1sc; $4,000 lbs and
Xxx Ohio fleece, "A q 47c; 5000 lbs medium unwashed
Western do, 32sc; and 100000 lbs fall California, Co.
GOO lbs spring do, 1000 lbs Utah 10000 lbs Eastern
do x do, and 20 do No do, on private terms.
In Philadelphia the market has been characterized
by great quietude since last, the local and Eas-
tern manufacturers buying. only for immediate
wants. Fine Wool is attracting little more atten-
ton, but buyers views are low. Medium fleece
commands former rates but unwashed is shade off,
Our advces from the West indicate that the stocks
there have pressed mostly into second hands, and
there is little to be bought in that section prices
there being relatively above those the seaboard
Among the sales We're 40 600 los Ohio. Xxx, ACC; 5000
lbs Ohio K, 45Ac; $500 lbs Ohio, blood, 45lc 1000
lbs Ohio, tne 45c; 1000 lbs Ohio medium, 44c 900
lbs Western, medium, 44c; 1000 lbs Western, fine
40c 900 lbs Colorado, fne Csc; $500 lbs Colorado
medium, &c; $4,000 lbs Colorado, improved, zoe; s.
900 lbs Colorado, fall 2lc; 1000 lbs Colorado fa fine,
23c 1000 lbs Colorado, fine private terms 5000 lbs
Colorado fine, 21c 1000 lbs Colorado, 6ne 24c; 1000
lbs Colorado fine, &c; $1,000 lbs Colorado, fall,
coarse 17c $1,000 lbs Colorado coarse 17c 900 lbs
Colorado lambs, unwashed 17Ac; 10000 lbs Colorado,
lambs unwashed, 1Sc.