The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16
WOOL MARKET ADVANCED
Indications OF Greater Strength
Next Week.
TWENTY-FIVE is EXPECTED
Wool From tho Judith Basin Is Begin
ming to Arrive-Two Hundred
Freight Wagons Are
on the Way.

Great Falls, July 15--Again the wool
market advanced, this time by single
point, the highest price being 20ss cents,
an eighth better than yesterday. The
bidding was lively and there is every
indication of still stronger market
next week. One buyer stated to-day
that he had no doubt that before the
market closed 22 cents would be paid
for some clips, and there is every indi-
cation that that price will be paid, and,
possibly, a fraction better. The wool
from the Judith basin is just arriving,
and several of the larger clips are not
irving this week from a trip through
the Judith, stated that he had met over
200 freight wagons laden with fleeces,
and these are just appearing at the
warehouse. The market is practically
beginning here, and there can be no
doubt that it will hold it's usual record
of paying the highest price in the state.
The sales to-day were as follows: HI.
Wareham of Fergus county, 10000
pounds, to Thayer, of Whitman, Farms
worth & Thayer, at 1917 cents; James
M. Croft of Lewistown, 5000 pounds,
to Thayer, at 20 cents. It is not proba-
BILE that any sentiment encered into this
sale, but 1T Is worth while to note that
outside of the high price paid, there is
also the attaching interest that the
clip belongs to the man who has just
been commissioned as captain of one of
the new skeleton companies to be form
ed in the Philippines He is now cap
tain of Company l. w. NJ. Gillette of
Craig, 81 900 pounds, to Thayer e. Co.,
Is cents; Ellis & Runyon of Cascade.
10000 pounds. to- Thayer, at 201s cents;
p. b. Buchanan of Belt, 10000 pounds,
to Barraclough, for ]. Koshland & Co.,
at 1873 cents; H. B. Ellis of Millegan,
10000 pounds, to Barraclough, at 10
cents; f. Draper, $4,000 pounds, to
Thayer. at 10 cents; J. R. Mason Of
Lewistown, II, 900 pounds to Thayer, at
20 cents; c. A. Ford, 5000 pounds. to
Num-, for Dewey, Gould & Co., at 1871
cents; Brooks Bros. of Lewistown, 20
900 pounds, ito Brigham. for H. c. Judd,
Root & Co., at 20 cents; c. w. Cooper
of Choteau, $4,000 pounds, to Thayer, at
1914 cents; c. r. Keller, $4,000 pounds,
to Barraclough, at 1915 cents; Pierson
Bros. of Pondera, 10000 pounds, to
Thayer, at 1885 cents; w. G. Anderson
of Cascade. $1,000 pounds, to Living
ston, of Rice, Benedict & Co., at 1914
cents; Weidert Bros. of Lewistown, 49,
900 pounds. to Thayer, at 1917 cents;
w. F. Kester of Great Falls, $500
pounds, to Thayer, at IS cents; Ban
mainline Bros. of Brighton. $4,000
pounds, to Barraclough, at 2Oss cents;
F. p. Adams sold 5000 pounds and Con-
way Bros. 1000 pounds to Thayer at
prices not learned, but they were in the
neighborhood of 19 cents.
A careful scrutiny of the list of sales
and the prices will show that the mar
ket of to-day was remarkably good and
the average price for the 100000 pounds
sold was way up. 1t may be added that
this is the first year since 1890 in which
wool has brought 20 cents or better. In
1891 1t was 16 to 1917 cents; in 1892, 16 to
10 cents, and from that the prices in
Northern Montana dropped until in
1896 they ranged between 5k and 10h
cents.
Prior to 1890 Montana wool prices
frequently exceeded the 20 cent mark,
the record showing the following range
of values: 1883, 20 to % cents; 1884, IS
to 20 cents: 1855, 16 to Is cents; 1886, 81
to "a cents; 1887, 10 to 20 cents; 1888, is
to 10 cents; 1889, 20 to 23 cents.