The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-28
THE WOOL SEASON.
The Buyers Are Beginning to Arrive-It
May Bring 4. Cents.

May Bring IL Cents.
Great Falls, June 27.-while but few
clips of wool have arrived al this point
and sales will probably not begin until
at least a week from to-day. the wool
buyers are beginning to congregate here
and to make ready for one of the great
events in the calendar of Great Falls.
Few of the growers are in town-they
are too busy at their ranches overseeing
shearing operations. When those end
they Will be here IN masse. and the
market will be open.
1t is difficult in the absence of the
growers to state with any amount of
precision what the price for wool will
re, for that is largely in one sense a
matter which they determine. II the
growers are not pressed for money. and
IL they believe that the market will
rise, ii has its effect upon the price and
in an upward tendency, while If oppo-
site conditions prevail, the price falls
correspondingly. The few who have
visited the city, or who reside here.
seem to believe that wool ought to bring
Is or IL cents, and this Is about two
cents lower than their predictions of
the spring, n four cents lower than
the price predicted by Senator Mantle
at the same time. The market has
changed since that time. and the
change in price is amply justified. But
J II WOOL DIl0Rs 10 Genus LOT average
grades 1t will be a good thing for the
grower.
The Great Northern has made gen
I. erous preparation for the market, and
no grower need fear that his clip will
not be promptly cared for on its ar
iva In addition to doubling the ca
pacity of the former warehouse, the
company has put i'm two freproof walls
dividing the building into three parts,
so that in case of fire the loss will be
minimized. A force of men sufficient
to unload the wool from the wagon will
be provided. and there ought TO be no
complains from the growers this year.
Conditions were phenomenal last sea-
son. and the rains started Just about
the time the clips were being brought
in. The roads were made almost inn
passable. and the result was that the
bulk of the clip came in at one time.
and the accommodations. at that time
one-half of the present, were swamped.
That ann happen again. even though
the rains are again punched.
During the month of May, when there
was almost an unprecedented fall OF
rain, the rover stated that the clip
would be lighter han usual. Since
shearing has actually begun they are,
many of them, surprised to find that
the exact contrary is the case. They
had based their opinion or the theory
] mat the UNUSUAL NdSIluk VI IA lICNttG
would run most of the grease and dirt
out of them. and the ieeces would
therefore, be lighter by the amount OF
foreign matter washed out. They now
account for the failure of their theory
by a new one which is to the effect
hat the sheep have wintered unusually
well, and the fleece is stronger in Xix
proportion, the increase In growth be
ing more han enough to counterbalanct
tho mss nv washing II this prOVps true
all over the country tributary TO this
market. the average price will be high
and the net weight of the wool will alsC
be large.
The market will be later in opening
this year than ordinarily for the rea,
son tina there is TO be a large sale Of
wool in Wyoming on July 2. Tit
amount to be sold Is said to be in thu
n~eighborhood of 400. 900 pounds, ant
many of the buyers will attend tina
sale before coming TO Great Falls. or &
they are already here will be absen
from his market for a few days whil'
attending il. The following buyers, rep
~resenting the following houses, are her,
now:
F. II. Putnam, representing Hect
Lehman & Co. of Boston: f. w. Thay
er and r. II. Stevenson. jr., represent
ing Weston. Farnsworth & Thsyer o
Boston; Herbert Walker. acting 70
Justice. Bateman & Co. OF Philadelphia
F. ]. Primrose. buying for himself,
Denver house; Frank r.. Peters. buy
ing for Hallowell g. Donald of Boston
and w. w. Walker, purchasing agen
for jeremiah Williams & Co. of Bos
ton. These, of course, are but tn
advance guard OF the crowd which |
to follow. last year there being nearl
; 30 buyers here.