The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
Miscellaneous.

HAY AND STRAW Receipts have been
moderate and the market is steady, with
high prices on some grades, although gen.
eral trade is quiet. Heated or matted hay
sells slowly: Rye straw is quiet but prices
are firm. We quote choice prime hay
at $50 to S21; fancy, S21O0 to $1,000;
medium TO good, S18 to $780, choice East
ern fine, SIG to S18 poor Eastern, S13
to S14 and Eastern swale at $40 to 81 per
ton. Choice rye straw sells at 5000 to $500,
and oat straw at $40 to 81 per ton.
LUMBER.-The yardmen have had good
trade this spring, and as the old stock of
lumber is well cleaned out they are now be-
ginning to buy quite freely from the whole
salers The arrivals are few. Spruce boards,
clapboards laths and dry hemlock boards
are meeting with very fair demand at
steady prices. Cedar is scarce, and as the
demand for cedar shingles is good dealers
are asking a slight advance. There con-
tinues to be good demand for frames
at steady prices. We quote as follows
Hemlock boards-rough, SIS to $40; planned,
$500. Spruce boards-best, $500 to $500;
second best, $1,000 to S1650; coarse, $500;
refuse, SIS to $3.50. Box boards inch,
S11.00 to S11.50; ( inch, $1,000 to S10.25
inch, $500 to 1928; ( inch, $500 to $3.50.
ern do, 81 to $3.50; Northern stockboards,
$3.50 to $14.O0. Shingles-Extra Eastern
sawed, 1925 to $3.50; do clear, 1913 to
$500; first quality Eastern shaved, 1925;
do spruce, No. 1, SLAB to S1.55. Clapboards
Extra 4-feet spruce, $500; do clear,
$500; extra pine, $500; do clear, S43.
Laths-Spruce and pine, 500 to 1925.
WooL.-The market is extremely quiet,
with fair sales. Business is distributed with
extreme irregularity. Manufacturers have
purchased at the prevailing low prices most
of the desirable wool, and what there is on
hand is for the most part either very heavy
or off grade. The chief interest centers in
the growing districts from which come rp-
ports of high prices. Ohio and Pennsylvania
t1eeceS are very quiet and without much de-
mand. Considerable interest is expressed
in the coming clip. A few scattering sales
of very small lots of the new unwashed wool
at 19c are reported from local centers in
Ohio. Texas wool is the subject of discus
sion in almost every mouth. The excite
ment there is still intense. That great fu-
ture lies before the woods Of Texas is gen
orally conceded, but the prices at present
are out of proportion to the market, and
much fear is expressed lest there be the
usual losses incurred through early purchas-
ing at prices beyond the consumers market.
California wool is arriving freely, the first
arrivals being of rather low quality. Ken
lucky wool is even tirmer than before in
that state, and it is said that nothing can be
obtained under twenty cents. Georgia wool
has begun to fall before the shears The
local quotations range at about zoe. Pulled
wool is improving in demand, but prices are
still unchanged Foreign wool is quieter. A
thousand bales of Cape wool have just
| passed through the market en- route for
Canada. The following are quotations for
leading grades Xxx Ohio sells at 80 to 34c,
Ohio X at 80 to Bic, Michigan at % to 29c,
fine Ohio delaine at 80 to SEC, Kentucky
coarse combing at 60 to 4c, Texas fine at Is
to 20c, Texas coarse and carpet at - to lac,
Georgia unwashed at 81 to DC Northern
California spring at 23c, Wyoming fine at
| III to 1Sc, Eastern Oregon at II to 19c, Kan
sas fine to average at 10 to 1Sc, and Montana
choice to medium at 81 to DC per pound.