The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-05
WOOL AMI tiIuES

THFRE is still n hir husmcy. dorc here in
wool but the season has Adviuocd "a f.r thai
the greater quantity of better grades Is dispO>-
ed of and what Is lcti Is generally of clHrsGr
quality. Hides are In active dcmnnd, sud rrrcu
bring fun quotations and ercrrndt'y taken. by
hides nrc also very firm gnd the receipts heavy.
QUor,rloNs TO-DAY.
Fine spring per III ~ Ia -, % mpdiuIu Spriue
per ~, Il 10 DE McNcnu improved per III H.
to Ice; bury Of all guides 90 &c. ott.
llides-Dry iliut, Sound uud heavy, H. to lie;
ditto light ~ to l2c; dry ,adL h.pyy, lie; ditlo
light l-2 TO lee wet salt ia 7 2G green,
butchers D II TO Go. III damaged. Wet ar dry,
half price. DeerSkinS. 20 TO 20; shcupSkhs, q
u 5uC; shearlings, 3 to llc.
BceswaX--ll To lSc pc pound, as per color
Tallow-ln barrels, s. IA ctkc, &C. per pound.
The wool clip of the current year ptuuisy, IN
be the largest ever grown lU this country.
sheep raissrs have suffered les, hSn ME usual
loss owing To the open winter and The stuce a.
general thing Is in excellent c.bjiiuu, and
likely 10 yields larger percentage ol desirable
wool The backward spring has delayed shuar-
ing but has not injured the clip.
Al the wool sales in London on the sOth ut ,
5000 bales OF New Zealand and sydney were
sold. The mark, was steady At unchanged
prices The series closed to-day. Three hun.
drcd and thirteen thousand bales were sold of
which $4,000 were for home consumption The
next .orics begins the nd of August Arrivals
10 date 255,220 bales There will probably DO
S6O, 900 bal, available altogether,
The Abilene Reporter says: The sales and
shipments Of wo this week have been pretty
fair A, W. Litlchale has shipped G7t o. pounds
To Boston; of this am unit he bought about A..
900 pounds, small clips, at 20 To u cents: other
small clips were sold TO other parties ut almost
same prices There are now IN store about 30 .
900 pounds among them the following clips :
Y, x. Wiley $4,000 pounds Berry BrnS. H. 90,
Wise 10000, Cu'euhury Bros 27tOO Thompson
Bros; l5,OOO' Adams 500 shipments this we,k l.,
1850 pounds to date, o2t,tS6 pounds: In
store, 1000 pounds; total receipts, l. 1856 G36
pounds about 1--WE tunes the amount handled at
any other point on ihe Texas " Pacific,
:, The Boston Advertiser of saturday, reports
the " oil trade of that city as follows:
Tho wool market shows u very light business
of ls2l 500 pounds, against l. nv, $40 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 aud is In good demand.
Inc tone Is good, and conservative dealers pre-.
Ter the market ut this time In Its present condl.
ton than 10 have any excitement New clips
are coming forward freely Reports from Ohio
are conflicting, both as to quality and price.
me Michigan clip is not fairly opened yet.
Good increases are the rule In the clip, but the
quality is not surely any better than a year ago,
IN California prices are weaker, also in Texas.
but such weakness IN latter Is denied In some
quarters, The improved tone In woolens con.
lihueS The receipts of wool continue large,
and foot up since January 1877 $50 bales domos.
tic, against 10, S52 bales a year ago and - Soq
bales foreign, against 1000 bales n year aeo.
The increase has been u 67s bales domestic and
~ 20 bales foreign. The sales since January
continue more than for the same time last ycaf.
but the excess Ia being gradually reduced, and
without the market becomes more active las,
year will soon catch up with this They now
loot up 1871 t66 pounds this year, against is
20 III pounds last year, or an Increase this yea
OF lhL29, pounds. A week ago the increas
for this year amounted to over 5000 900 poundc