Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1897-07-21
wOOT STILL

Boston Market Rises Two Cents and Is Eight
Cents Higher than Last Year.
BosTON, July 16.-The Boston Com
Bulletin will say tomorrow:
1.-The strength of the market is EN-
phasized by the sale OF 3O0, 900 pounds
of new Ohio XN and above, to
arrive, at % cents, an advance OF q
over last week and OF 8 cents
over the price of the same wool last
year. Wool continues to advance,
though the market Ia somewhat
quieter, as speculation is dropping
off.
'The London market is firmerthan
ever. Americans bought up to Thurs
day for shipment on Paris, taking
chances of another weeks delay in
tariff circles.
"Sales of the week are: 4,03S, 900
pounds foreign, against 5,237 900
pounds domestic and l33, 900 pounds
foreign last week and 551 900 pounds
domestic and 132. 900 pounds foreign
for the same week last year. Sales
to date show an increase Of 53,352,SOO
pounds domestic and S4.2lS, 700
pounds foreign from sales to the
same date in 1896.
Receipts to date show ar increase
of 1851 bales domestic and 1850
bales foreign"
very favorable, though many large
clips and some smaller ones are be-
ing consigned. While nos of the
consignments are going to the cOm-
mission houses of the east, the New
York Wool Warehouse Co., is gain
ing some of the choicest clips, among
them being the Bower Bros. clip
from Stanford.
The highest price paid during the
past week was 14X cents for theJOhn
Patterson clip at Benton.
The Great Falls Tribune OF the 18th
said:
"The highest price that has been
paid for Montana wool in four years
was paid at Fort Benton yesterday.
1.-The buyers who make their head
quarters at Great Falls left on a
special train for the head of naviga-
ton yesterday morning and the sales
opened at 8 O'Clock in the morning.
Yesterday evening The Tribune
received the following dispatch from
Fort Benton:
'"The John Patterson clip of 4 $1,000
pounds sold at 14X cents to C. H.
Merrill. The Pugsley clip sold at IA
cents and the Churchill clip ut 13h
cents. Other clips went from 1lA
cents up. About 800, 1000 pounds were
sold. Some bids were declined
1.-THE sale at LAX cents is the best
that has been made i'm this state this
year and has not been equaled since
1885,"
According to the Tribune of the
10th, the buyers were laboring under
the belief that Judith wool would be
sold cheap, but in this we believe the
buyers are decidedly mistaken. The
Tribune said:
"Others whose clips are in will
neither sell nor cOnsign. They are
confident that the market will ad.
vance speedily and feel that they will
not lose by holding their clips.
Every little Judith wool has ar.
rived and that fact tends to dull the
market. The buyers are waiting for
that wool in the hope that the
lgrowers, who have not Jared well in
other years, will be anxious to sell
and will accept whatever is offered
Those Judith growers who have
market and the buyers expect that
that circumstance will depress Others
in that same vicinity, but those whC
are familiar with the quality of the
Judith clips say that the Judith wool
is equal. If not superior, to the
northern clips, and IL the grower
from that vicinity r firm they will
receive AZ good and probably better
prices than have get been paid. here
"F. L. Orcutt, representing Ballard
& Hall of San Francisco, has pur
chased the j Johnson clip sc, OOOpounds
at Chinook at IA cents.
Eat Billings the market is almost
dead, buyers having come to Great
Falls. One clip of IA, 900 pounds from
Carbon county was sold for IA cent
and another of $4,000 pounds at 1:
cents. A Billings man has beer
Offered 16 cents for wool at New
York. which is better than IA in Mon
tana. There are about 1000, OOt
pounds at Billings and SOC, 900 pounds
more will be received there"
On the 18th the Tribune reported
George Edwards Of Stanford wa
offered only IL cents Tor his clip q
A., 700 pounds and consigned to JUS
tice Bateman & Co. of Philadelphia
at an advance of 8 cents.
1.-THE Cascade Land company put
up a clip of 81, 300 pounds. The bids
ran from 1Ok@l2H cents, the best be.
ing made by Patterson. All were
rejected and the clip will be sent to
the New York Wool Warehouse COM
pany.-
Blower Bros. of Stanford and OkO
submitted samples of their clip, one
of the largest that will come tn this
market. The bids ran above IL cents,
Patterson bidding the highest, but
the owners would not accept such