The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
THE WOOL MARKET.
The Growers Expected Better Prices,
Rough and Short in Staple

The Growers Expected Better Prices.
Rough and Short in Staple.
Great Falls, July 25.-The highest
price reached this morning was 1874
cents, and this was very good, although
not as high as the growers expected
In this particular case the fieeces
weighed about eight and a half pounds,
which would mean return of SLIGO
per head approximately. Much of the
wool sold was rough and short in sta
pie, the effect sometimes of bad win
tering and again of bad range, so that
the bids of Is and 16 cents were per-
haps as high as might be expected.
The growers, however, are beginning
to grumble and to throw out hints of
combine among the buyers. while on
the other hand these gentlemen say
that the season Is getting late, that
their houses have bought pretty nearly
all that they care for and that the mar
ket is now on coarse and heavy wools
There is probably a grain OF truth in
this statement. However, there is
much wool to be sold yet. The process
sion of jerk-line teams at the ware
house platform is not in the least dl-
minished, and the reports are that the
roads are covered with the wool COM
ing If the weight does not fall too
low, there Is a strong probability that
the estimate of 100000 pounds made
early in the season will be exceeded.
There are a few fine clips still to come,
and while these may exceed the prices
paid up to the present time, there is
but little likelihood of their so doing.
1t is a noticeable fact that the market
here strengthened up to the time when
the London auction sales closed, while
after that there has been perceptible
dipping in the prices.
The sales this morning were as fol-
10y Sx. hot TNnt1.
clip, 10000 pounds, bid upon but not
sold; same, SO clip, 10000 pounds, to
Morse for Harding & Caverly. at 15k
cents; Sweeney & Cowell of Choteau,
d. & c. clip, $4,000 pounds, to Patter-
son for jeremiah Williams & Co, at Is
cents the Basin Live Stock company
of Okla, $4,000 pounds. all yearlings,
to Abbott for Nichols, Dupee & Co.. at
II cents; T. r. Maray, $4,000 pounds,
to Barraclough for Koshland & Co.,
at IN cents: George Waite of Utica,
5000 pounds, all yearlings, Patterson,
at 16 cents; f. p. Cowell Of Dupuyer,
$4,000 pounds, to Morse, at 151s cents;
D. Findley, $4,000 pounds, 35 sacks, ewes,
to Barraclough, at ISM cents: 25 sacks
to same at the same price, but sold
as separate lot; j. Hirschberg. Du-
puyer, $4,000 pounds, to Barraclough,
at 16a cents; E. L. Peck & Co. of Phil
brook. $1,000 pounds, to Livingston of
Rice, Benedict & Co, at 17A cents; G.
w. Gray of Belleview 5000 pounds, to
Barraclough, at 16 cents; G. Mackie of
Choteau, 1000 pounds, to Barraclough,
at 1914 cents: w. B. Peck of the Judith
basin, $4,000 pounds, to Livingston, at
IS cents; Beckett & Kenneth of Cas-
cade, $4,000 pounds, sold in two lots: "a
sacks of ewes went to Thayer of Whit
man, Farnsworth & Thayer, at 49,
cents: 81 sacks yearlings and wethers
to Abbott at 171a cents; C. c. David of
Utica, 10000 pounds, to Morse at 15h
cents; Felix Armstrong of Cora creek,
21.000 pounds, all ewes, to Barraclough,
at 1871 cents; 10000 pounds, wethers,
to same at IS cents.