Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-07-20
Wool Notes.

The Cambridge Herald says: Wool is
beginning to change, hands here at from
S5 to 81 cents, and more is expected to
move within the next few days.
Wool buyers are not running over
each other in their haste to secure clips
What little wool is being bought is
for manufacturers, commission men not
being in the field at all.-Tuscarawas
(Uhrichsville) Chronicle.
S. S. Linn, of Jefferson township, and
Mr.. Iddings, of Belmont county, have
bought considerable wool in Madison
Wills and Jefferson townships at 3s cts
But most of the largest clips still remain
in the hands OF the Misunderstanding
Jeffersonian. -
A correspondent from HendrysbuTgt
saws: Last week the wool trade was
booming here. A. S. Taylor, our popular
! merchant, is the buyer. We learn he is
paying 9s cents.
This year so far the eastern sales Of wool
have been larger than to the same time
last year. Woolen goods show little
improvement in price in the markets
and good woods show slight stiffening
Says the GAINESVILLE Courier: The wool
market in this city has suddenly col.
lapsed. An apparently irreconcilable
difference between buyers and growers
indicates that the wool crop will move
slowly.
There is no great activity in the wool
market here as yet. Prices are not en-
tirely satisfactory to the farmers, and
buyers are 10th to offer an advance. The
prices paid vary from 80 to 40 cents, ac.
cording to quality and condition.
Woodsfield Spirit.
A greater portion of the wool in this
vicinity is yet i'll the hands of the grow
ers, though what has been sold has been
principally at 40 to 45 cents. We learn
that Mr.. CaMpsey, of Claysville, has
purchased the clip Of Mr.. A. Sample, at
Valley Grove. 1t would appear our
farmers have generally come to the con-
clusion that 4OIcents must be the ruling
price.-Wheeling Register, 18th.
The local wool market in Harrison
county has not been very active. E. e.
Mansfield says he has bought $4,000 at
30 cents. c. N. Hogg says be has pur-
chased 10000 at the same figures. 9th
er dealers, Kinsey, Schreiber, Coleman,
and others, have also made purchases,
but to what amount We do not know.
Forty cents appears to be the price ask
ed. Most of the wool of the county
could be moved at that figure; less mon
ey will not buy it. Every other commo-
dity is at very high figure, while wool
below normal price.-Cadiz Sentinel.
Wool buying in this neighborhood has
come to practical stand-still, with
prices offered a little lower than earlier
in the season. Notwithstanding reports
of clips selling as high as 40 cents have
been current, 3S cents is. we believe, the
highest price that has been paid here,
and that only for the best wool. Proba-
bly, up to this time not more than half
the clip has been sold, the farmers hold
ing for 40 cents. All of the agents for
Eastern mills have gone home and the
buyers are all out of the field. The dis
couragement of Eastern firms, owing to
the slow sales of spring goods. has no
doubt had depressing influence on the
wool market. From present prospects
the sales will be slow and scattered over
the balance of the season, and some
wool will probably be carried over until
next year.-Barnesville Enterprise.