The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-07
AN AUSP|C|OUS OPENING
First Wool Clip to Be Sold Brings
II IA Cents.
IT MAY GET TO TWENTY
A Prophecy of Better Prices to Follow.
1t Brings Joy to the Hear of the
Sheep Growers of Northern
Montana.

Great Falls. July s.-The wool mar
ket opened in this city to-day n Ii
opened in a which will make
the heart of every wool grower in
Northern Montana glad. There were
only tour clips sold, but they brought
prices which have not been realized
since the slump in prices of 's3. and 1t
means hat not only are good prices to
be realized for the wool crop Of this
year, but it makes more prominent
than ever the fact that the Great Falls
market pays the highest to be had in
the state or elsewhere in the West.
1t also means that the prediction Of
Senator Mantle that 20 cents would be
paid for wool during the season OF
1895 is not so wild as it appeared to
many in the winter.
That a clip should bring IN cents
on the opening day of the market is
something surprising and a prophecy
of better prices to follow. Hughes
Bros. of Pondera received that figure
for their clip from l.. $. Barraclough.
representing ]. II. Koshland * Co. OF
Boston. The same buyer took the clip
of wingate e. Co. at 1914 cents. F. w.
Thayer. buyer for Weston, Farms
WOTIn a. mayer u IOClObs Npoh wv
clips-that of Pearson Bros. of Pom
dera at 16k cents and that OF Banna-
tyne Bros. at the same figure. This
is a most suspicious opening, n II
the market follows the rule of other
years there is likely to be a marked
rise before the season closes.
While the wool market has not really
opened, 1t will be only a matter or a
few days now. Buyers have been out
in the country making purchases, and
some clips have arrived in this city
and other railway points, but these are
the first and are not a mark on the
total amount to be received. Down at
Chester two clips have been sold at
good prices to the well-known firm of
jeremiah Williams & Co., which has
visited the Montana market for at least
10 years. One, owned by John Gingras,
brought 1914 cents. and the other, be
longing to John Washesha, brought
half a cent lower. The latter grower
also made a mutton sale, disposing
of 5000 head of mixed wethers for So
per head.
No sales have been made at Malta or
Chinook, and it is likely that the sales
day at those places will be about July
IS, while that at Fort Benton VIII
probably follow. Nearly all of the
buyers have arrived in this market,
those who have arrived since the pub
LEGATION of the last list being: +. l..
circuit, representing Ballard g. Hall Of
San Francisco; c. Nj. Caverly of Hard
ing & Caverly of Boston; Alexander
Livingston, buying for Denny, Rice &
Co. of Boston, and T.. w. Brigham,
buyer for Judd & Root of Hartford.
Conn. Many of these buyers have
picked up occasional clips in this vicin-
ity. +. w. Thayer has purchased the
James McDevitt clip at Conrad, 95
sacks. at 16k cents, the best price yet
paid in this market: "a sacks at is cents
Of ]. j. Miller on the Marias; A sacks
of Frederick Drake and 46 sacks of
II. h. Ellis of Millegan at 10 and a frac-
tion cents.
There seems to be every indication
of a sharp rise in prices for wool in the
near future. The recent success of
American arms will have an immediate
effect on the price, and the sales re-
ported from other states of wool nc
better, If as good quality as Montana
wool, at IL cents is giving growers an
idea that 1t will pay to wait a while.