The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-07-06
WOOL AND HIDES

THFRE is still fair business done here in
| wool but the season has advanced so iar that
the greater quantity Of better grades Is dlspos.
| quality Hides are in active demand ana green
| bring ful quotations and are readily taken. Dry
hides are also very firm and the receipts heavy
The following are
Fine spring per ID, % to PC; medium spring
per b. p TO 23c Mexican improved per lb, II
10 Ice: bury of all grades. 2 to &C. off,
Hides-Dry flint, sound and heavy u to he;
ditto light 10 to l2c; dry salt heavy lie; dltto
light 3 10 TO Ice; wet salt to l-2c; green,
butchers, IL &c; all damaged, wet or dry
half price. Deerskins, 20 to &c; sheepskins 20
to 5Cc shearlings, 8 to l5c.
Beeswax-ll to lSc per pound, as per color
Talow-In barrels. o. in cake, &c per pound.
The wool clip Of the current year promises 10
be the largest ever grown in this country.
sheep raiseTs have suffered less than the usual
loss owing TO the open winter and the ttock as
general thing is in excellent condition, and
likely 10 Weld larger percentage Of desirable
WOOL The backward spring has delayed shear
ing but has not injured tho clip.
AZ The wool sales IL London, on the SOth nlt :,
5000 bales Of New Zealand and Sydney were
SOLD. The market was steady Mt unchanged
prices. The series closed to-day. Three nun,
bred and thirteen thousand bales were sold; OF
which l37,C00 were for home consumption. Ihe
next series begins the 22d Of August. Arrivals
to date. 2j522O bales. There will probably be
800 600 bales available altogether.
The Abilene Reporter says: The sales and
shipments Of wool this week have been pretty
fair. A. w. Littlehale has shipped 600 pounds
10 Boston: of this amount he bought about 40
OCO pounds small clips, at 20 TO q cents; other
small clips were sold 10 other parties at almost
same prices. There are now in store about 2lO :
90 pounds, among them the following clips
r. X. Wiley $1,000 pounds. Berry Bros. 4b,UOO,
Wise 10000 CutenDury Bros. H,uOO, Thompson
Bros 1900 Adams 800. Shipments this week,
1880 pounds; TO date, 926,t86 pounds; IN
store 2lO,OOl pounds; total receipts, Lib, 636
pounds. about i've times the amount handled at
any other point ON the Texas a Pacific.
The Boston Advertiser, Of saturday, reports
the wgol trade Of that city as follows:
The wool market shows very light business
Of 32l $50 pounds, against 1,7ta,jlO pounds the
previous week, the decrease being partly due TO
the holiday The largest sales have been Of
Texas and spring California New Kansas wool
has been arriving freely and is in good demand.
The tone Is good, and conservative dealers pre-
fer the market at this time IN It's present condi-
ton than 20 have any excitement New clips
are coming forward freely Reports from OHIO
are conflicting. both as 10 quality and price.
The Michigan clip il not fairly opened yet
Good increases are the rule In the clip, but the
quality IL not surely any better Than year ago.
In California prices are weaker, also IN Texas
but such weakness I'm latter IA denied In some
quarters. The improved tone In wOOlens con-
tinues The receipts Of wool continue large,
aud foot up since January ~ $40 bales d0mes-
tic, against 12o.z52 bales year ago, and 5,5ss
bales foreign, against 1900 bales a year ago.
The increase has been Il e7s tales domestic and
la.f55 bales foreign. The sales since January
continue more than for the same time last year,
but the excess a. being gradually reduced, and
without the market bscJmes m1re active last
year viii soon catch Up with this. They now
loot M 81 s7l. ffe pounds this year. against -.
n III pounds last rear. OF an Increase this yea
81 Igfl2q5 pounds A week ago the inoreas
for his rerr amounted 20 over 6l00.o00 pOunce