The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-15
WOOL AND HIDES,

THERE Is still fair business done here in
wool but the season has advanced so far that
the greater quantity of better grades is diSpos-
ed of, and what Is left is generally of u coarser
quality. Hides are in active demand, and green
bring iull quotation and are readily taken Dry
hides are also very firm and the receipts heavy
The following are
QUOTATIONS. TO-DAY.
Fine spring per ID % to &c. medium spring
per ID, q to DC; Mexican improved per Id, u
to Ice: bury of all grades 2 to Sc. oil.
lIides-Dry flint, sound and heavy, 10 to lie;
ditto light - to l2c; dry salt heavy, lie ditto
light IL to llc wet salt to 2 l-2ci green,
butchers, 3 u To &c; all damaged, wet or dry,
half price, Decrskins. 20 TO re; hheepskinS, Is
: 5uC, shearlings to l5c,
Beeswax-ll to lsc per pound, rs per color.
Tallow-ln barrels. .: in cake, &C. Per pound.
The Pittsburgh stockman Of Il late date has
this TO ray concerning sheep and wool sheep.
buyers from some OF the leading sheep sections
tributary 10 Pittsburgh market say that II Is not
MS easy 70 buy up this stock as IL was few
weeks ago, For this there are three reasons,
First the available supplies are very naturally
falling oil, Second, the prices realized form no
induCcment TO sell. Third grass is SO plenty
that 1t is easy to hold the stock Ut home in hope
of better things. Unwashed woods are figuring
more prominently In the markets this year than
usual. Manufacturers seem to regard them with
increased favor, saying That they are much more
uniform than the washed ilcocoS, the latter be-
ing ccansed in all degrees from clean and bright
10 cOnuluon ltle better ll0n II not washed NJ
all, The greatest difficulty about washed woods
is that much of the social. d washed staple Is
not washed. And how about wool? Well there
is nothing new to be said about II MS far as we
can see. The trade is steady in the east slow in
tho coumi,, and unsatisfactory all around,
Prices do moi change, buyers make no great cx.
orlions to gather up supplies, and farmers are
10y no means eager TO sell. The market every
where is handicapped by something
which everybody thinks ought to be
shaken of, but which no one seems to
know Just how to get rid Of The reluctance of
farmers to let go Is having the very natural ef
feet of preventing liberal shipments, and much
less new wool Is changing handsin the east than
at the same time last year But there may be
some good in the market yet, though We are, so
TAR, unable to discover II, Shcep.ShippcrS have
been n listlcss dun, unintorssted looking set of
men for some weeks, but this week they are
looking quite cheerful, and feel that there are
some good things In this world after all, Such
markets Ms we have hai this week ought tu con-
tinuc, but we are afraid 10 say that they will
The sheep trade has disappointed everybody so
badly this spring that all aro ready 10 distrust
any promise of improvement which II gives,
The annexed table shows the number OF bales
of wool imported into New York during the past
week and since the LIST of January, as compared
with the preceding year; also, the receipts OF
| domestic during the same period (balesG