The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-30
IT GOES UP TO II CENTS
The Wool Market is Very Strong
and Bullish.
IT MAY REACH 10 OR 20
Some Growers Ignorant of the High
Prices Sell Too Cheap On Their Way
to Town-Occurrencesi in Sweet
Grass County.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Big Timber, June 2S.--The wool sea-
son is in full swing here this week and
clips are being bought up very rapidly.
The earlier prices were about Is to 15]s
cents, but the figures reached II cents
last Eight, and many of the growers
are holding for still better prices. The
condition of the market is surprise
to many OF the growers. who have been
prepared to accept from IL to IA cents
Some of them have been met on the
way to town by enterprising buyers
and entrapped into a sale before being
acquainted with the condition of the
market. A Fish Creek woolgrower who
came into town last night was imme-
diately asked what he would take for
his clip of $4,000 pounds. Expecting to
put it high enough, he said 16 cents.
and was astonished when the buyer
said done" He hadn't kept posted
on the market and thought IA cents
was as much as he could expect. An
hour after he had sold he was offered
II cents-an advance of $500 on what
he had received. The wool is lighter
this year than last. Some growers esti-
mate that the clip is a pound per head
lighter than a year ago. This is the
result of the heavy rains in the early
spring. Some of the growers are hold
ing for Is and 20 cents for their clips
and confidently expect to get those fig
ures.
There seems to be good demand for
breeding sheep as well as for wethers
On Monday Charles o. Hathaway sold
2,1O0 yearling wethers to j. F. Simmons
for $3.50 per head. This is considered
a low figure.
1t was reported here late Saturday
night that all of the men who went
down with the boat which capsized in
the Yellowstone near Gray Cliff last
Saturday had escaped, two of them
getting out on the opposite side .of the
river from the others. The report has
not been confirmed and is not believed
here. Sullivan and Lawrence. the miss
ing men, were intoxicated when they
left here and it is considered well nigh
impossible that they could have es-
capped.
Judge Orner, an inspector of the land
department, was here the first of the
week and went out to Melville to in
spect the land alleged to have been
illegally fenced by Edwin Ellingson,
who was recently acquitted of the
charge in the United States court at
Helena. 1t is understood that the
VIII DflIlS a CIVIL acI1Ou
against Mr.. Ellingson to compel him to
remove his fence from the land in ques-
ton. The action against Elilrgson is
to be in the nature of a warning to
others who have large areas of gov
eminent land Illegally under fence.
There are large number of stockmen
in the western part of this county and
adjoining counties on the north who
have paid little if any attention to the
| law against the fencing of government
| land, and 1t is given ovt that steps
| will be taken to insure observance of
| the law.
| Hon. Walter Cooper of Bozeman was
| in Big Timber yesterday and went up
| the Boulder with Pike" Nelson to take
! look at the Iatter's coal mine at Nc
| Leod. Is miles south of this town. Mr..
Nelson has been working on the propo-
| sition for some time and has two-foot
| vein of fine coal uncovered. On his re-
| turn Mr.. Cooper was seen by the Stand
| ard correspondent, but beyond saying
| that the coal was beyond question of
| the very best quality in the state, de-
| clined to be interviewed From Mr.
| Nelson it was learned that a diamond
| drill will be put in operation on the
| claim at once and If there is coal in
| sufficient quantities the mine will be
| thoroughly developed by Mr.. Cooper
| and others interested with him.
| A special election will be held in this
| school district on July s for the pur-
! pose of deciding whether a special levy
of three mills shall be made for the
| purpose of putting heating plant in
| the new school building.