The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-07-11
WOOL NOTES.

ers' association will be held next month.
Charlie Richter, one of the wool grow
ers of the Teton, is in the city buying
supplies.
The wool is rolling in at q lively rate
every day from the shearing sheds on
the Shonkin.
The republicans of Ohio, in their
state platform, demand that the tariff
on wool be restored to the former figures.
Geo. Patterson was in town Thursday
getting supplies for the ranch. He has
not commenced shearing yet, and re-
ports that shearers are hard to get.
Z Paris Gibson will drive 1900 wethers
tie the Canadian Pacific soon for sale to
the contractors aud others. That ought
to be a good market for fat Montana
mutton.
While trying to cross the Shonkin
Thursday with their band, in driving
them to the shearing sheds, the Belt
creek sheep company had seventeen
head drowned.
y Henry Mcdonald, Of Arrow Creek,
will drive his sheep, about 1000 head, to
the Shonkin sheds to be SHARED, and
has received a permit from Commission
er Peck to move them.
Messrs. Townsend and Lewis, Of Phil
adelphia, who came down on the 'Lu-
cillen from Helena, will 20 from here to
the vicinity of Fort Maginnis, where
they will locate a sheep ranch.
The number of sheep to be shsared at
the sheds on the Shonkin, a little more
than a mile from this city, will reach at
least $4,000 head. Averaging the yield
at 6 pounds, 5000 pounds will be
sheared at this place alone. ~
IN Robt. B~lankenbaker, Turner & Cresapl
and Geo. Fl. Mullery will shear at the
same corral this year, on Box Elder, and
altogether there will be u, O head de-
prived of their fieeces at this place.
Turner d Cresap's sheep have already
been shorn, and the shearers are now
working on Mr.. Blankenbaker's band
This combination scheme, it would
seem to us, is q good
John Zimmerman will put a band of
/ / 500 sheep on his Marias ranch ION Dry
Fork in September. A Mr.. McCraig
has located above him seven miles, and
will start with about the same number.
Paris Gibson, whose wool interests are
extending in every direction, is inter
ested with these gentlemen, and with
his usual good judgment has selected a
HE Idll3C, dlIOI 0l1lS GSCIN upSIItu au-
vantage to the wool grower.
The Philadelphia market report Of the
10th indicates that wool is looking up.
The quotations are: Ohio, Pennsylya-
MIA and West Virginia Xxx and above,
3004O; X, 37@38; medium, 40@42;
coarse, o4035. New York, Michigan,
Indiana and western-fine, 35@37; me
dunn, 40O42; coarse, 1905; washed
copo hi r Inlaina QQIndE. nm uvochoI 10
25@33; tub washed, 5000; Oregon,
24@33; New Mexico and Colorado, 16M
%; pulled, 32@33.
" It should not be forgotten hat a per-
nit from the commissio ner is necessary
before a band OF sheep can be driven
from one range to another. ANY viola
ton Of the law in this respect subjects
the party to a heavy penalty. L. w.
forms us that he has issued permits al
ready for the moving Of 10000 head.
He says he knows Of but n scabby
hand of sheep in this county, q record
that speaks we'll for our wool growers.
Mr.. Peck has his eye, SO to speak, on
that band, and will see to it that they
are not instrumental in spreading the
disease.
IL. w. Peck, secretary or the WOOL
Growers Association, has secured the
room adjoining Cans & Klein's store
Burgess old stand-as an Office, and this
will be headquarters for sheep men dur
ing the wool season. The secretary will
fit the oom up and seek to make it
pleasant for wool growers during their
~sojourn in the city. A number of papers
will be kept OH file, and writing mater
ia etc will ha always conuanipnt for
readiness to furnish all information at
his command and make himself gener-
ally usefuls among the wool growers.
This is a step ia the right direction, and
the organization of the Association.