The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-14
WOOL AT TWENTY CENTS
Two Clips Sold at That Price at
Great Falls.
THE PACE Is TOO SWIFT
A Reaction Expected-Buyers Say They
Are Not Looking for Wool at
Such Prices - Record
Of the Sales.

Great Falls, July 13.-This was an
other 20 cent day, two clips of wool
passing at that price. AS a result of the
high prices of yesterday the growers
rushed their wool on the market this
morning and clip after clip was put up
and sold until the floor of the sales
room could hold no more samples. In
the neighborhood of 400, 900 pounds were
sold, but toward the last it looked as if
the interest of the buyers had waned
or that they were reaching their limit
on purchases, as the prices fell a trife
and competition was not as keen. There
may be a reaction tomorrow as fewer
clips come forward, although the buy
ers say that the pace is too swift for
them and that they are not looking for
wool at the present prices. Later they
may change their minds.
The only clip on which the price was
not obtained was that put up by John
t. Murphy of Helena as the Seaman e.
Co. clip Of 1899, $4,000 pounds. The bids
had to be submitted by wire to Helena,
Livingston of Rice, Benedict & Co. be-
ing the highest bidder. He stated that
he bid for it just the price at which he
could have sold it last winter in Boston,
and that is supposed to be in the neigh
borhood of 16 cents.
Other sales We're as follows: Fair
field & McCuaig, rs sacks ewes, $1,000
pounds, to Thayer of Whitman, Farms
worth & Thayer, at 20 cents; B. r.
Fowler of Pondera, $4,000 pounds, of
which 30 sacks were yearlings and
wethers and SO sacks ewes, to Barrac-
Tough, for ]. Koshland & Co., at 175s
cents; A. ]. & M. Fowler of Pondera,
10000 pounds, to Thayer, at 1917 cents.
This fleece was short in fibre and rather
dirty and brought the lowest price this
morning. G. /. Smith of Choteau, 10000
pounds, to Brigham, for H. c. Judd &
Co., at 1874 cents: A. Godertz of Sweet
Grass, $4,000 pounds. to Livingstone, ut
1872 cents; Warden & Clark of Augusta,
41,000 pounds, to Thayer at Its cents;
Woolman & Christian of Augusta, 49,
900 pounds, to. Thayer, at 1S& cents.
These f1eeces averaged 61a pounds each.
1t was expected that the larger lot Of
WOOL $4,000 pounds, would bring a bet
ter price than the first lot. but it proved
that there We're some coarse wool
f1eeces in the second lot, and as luck
would have it, one of these sacks was
brought in for a sample. This lot went
to Brigham at 1SA cents. G. r. & l..
La Chappelle, $4,000 pounds to Barrac-
Tough, at I'm cents. These fieeces aver
aged ~ pounds each, and therefore the
price was as good as on the same clips
which We're nominally higher. Fleming
& Mayer of Augusta, 1000 pounds, to
Abbott, for Nichols, Dupee & Co, at
175a cents: H. F. Hughes of Choteau,
1000 pounds, to /. l.. Jonas, for Wiley
g. Co., at 1888 cents; A. j. Cowell OF Du-
puyer, six sacks of Hampshire WOOL to
Barraclough, at 17A cents; ]. F. Ber-
thelote of Gold Butte, 10000 pounds, to
Thayer, at 20 cents; Mcdonald G. Ry-
mel of Choteau, 16 sacks of ewes
straight, about 1880 pounds, to Hellers,
for Hollowell, Mcdonald & Co., at 1S5s
cents; Fey & Fey of Teton county, 2S,-
600 pounds. to Thayer, at 1914 cents.
AS may be gathered from the list of
sales. Thayer was the heavy buyer this
morning, and secured clips at both top
and bottom prices.
Advices from Big Sandy report the
sale of the Henry Lehfeldt wool clip at
1917 cents; Lohse Bros, 16 cents, and
p Bruett's also at 16 cents. The buyer
in each case was c. P. Num-, represent
ing Dewey, Gould & Co. Another NUT
ton sale is reported from Malta, where
about 1000 head of the Howard year
lings, ewes and wethers have been
bought by C. H. Merrill at $2,75.