The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
SALES RUSHED THROUGH
Wool Market Shows a Drop in
Prices.
COMPETITION Is SHARP
Good Clips Are Eagerly Sought After
Salesrooms Are Crowded Every
Morning-A Day at Fort
Benton.

HiCdl i ais, III lie VhOHudy
morning market usually shows slight
dropping off in general prices from the
preceding week and this mornings sales
may be no exception. However, three
clips went at 20 cents and one which
brought fraction over 10 cents netted
the owners s1.46 per head, which will
compare favorably with most of the 20
cent clips. 1t is probable that there
will be an intermission of one or two
days in the sales in order to allow the
balers to catch up in their work. AL
though the balers are working over
time and Sundays, they are unable TO
keep up with the sales, which, partic-
ularly this morning, We're rushed
through at a rapid gait. Many of the
growers sheared late this season ana
much of the wool is still to come, so
that a few days of delay at this point
would mean no loss in the end.
The buyers will probably arrange for
day at Fort Benton in the near flu
ture, possibly this week, and that will
give one day off on this market, while
second day will be taken as a rest.
Apparently there is no great change
in the market from last week, which
closed with nearly all of the buyers
competing for every clip of considera-
BILE size. Good clips were eagerly
sought this morning and there was gen.
eral satisfaction expressed with the
prices bid and accepted. More interest
is manifested in the market than in any
season for several years and the sales
room is so crowded each morning that
the buyers are sometimes pretty well
crowded or shut out from the light.
N1.A tnfp stef In rrn1N Ff
flock owners who have not yet sold, on
who, having sold, are anxious to find
out what their neighbors receive and
thus hold sort of post mortem' on
their own sales. The life insurance
agent is present waiting to reap his
harvest from the grower who has re-
ceived his price, and on their trail Is
also the consignment man, eager to
boast of the square dealing of his house
to the dissatisfied or suspicious sheep
man. Altogether 1t makes a large and
both interested and interesting gang.
This mornings sales were as follows:
Chamberlain Land & Sheep company
of Box Elder county, $40 sacks, of
which 1000 pounds were medium and
10000 pounds were fine. The medium
went to Mum, for Dewey. Gould & Co.,
al 20 cents, while Thayer, of Whitman,
FarnsWorth & Thayer, bought the fine
at 1875 cents. The latter was a heavier
fleece, and it was said by growers to
have Melted a better price than the
medium. ]. McGrail of the Judith, TO-
900 pounds, to Thayer. at 16 cents; I.
w. Luce, 1900 pounds, to Livingston.
OF Rice Il CO.. at 1874 cents; b. F. Sink
of the Judith, 5000 pounds, to Living
ston, at 17& cents: c. B. Toole of Sweet
Grass, 1900 pounds, to Abbott for
Nichols, Dupee & Co., at 20 cents. This
was considered one of the best sales
made this morning, from a growers
standpoint Reed & Burmeister of Cas-
cade, $4,000 pounds to Num-, at IN
cents; Fergus Live Stock company of
Lewistown, 4S,O00 pounds, to Living
ston, at 20 cents; Stow Bros. of the
Middle Fork of the Dearborn, $4,000
pounds, to Barraclough for j. Kosh-
land & Co., at 17R cents; j. Milne of
Utica 5000 pounds, to Barraclough, at
l7% cents; w. B. Shiel of Tibet 5000
pounds to Barraclough, at 1919 cents;
Burke Bros. of Augusta, 10000 pounds,
to Jonas, for Wiley & Co.. at II cents;
Seaman & Co. of Collins, $4,000 pounds.
The bids on this lot had to be tele-
phoned to Helena to John T. Murphy
before acceptance. Lvingstons bid was
the highest, but the price was not an
nounced. H. Reyman, $1,000 pounds, to
Num-, at 151a cents; J. II. Willard of
Lewistown, $4,000 pounds, to Living
ston. at is cents: Crichton & Whyte of
ston, at 1874 cents; N. r. Rasor of Ubet,
5000 pounds, to Barraclough, at Is
cents; E. E. Leech of Dupuyer, $4,000
pounds to Putnam, for Hecht Bros, at
1874 cents.
The buyers say that last year Thayer,
who then bought this clip, found on
opening the sacks they had been stuffed
with pulled wool and, worse than that,
the hides and bones of dead sheep. This
was discovered in the cars here, and
there was a violent scene between
Thayer and Leech, the buyer publicly
accusing Leech of attempting to de-
fraud him and repudiating the pur-
chase. It was stated early in the sea-
son that the buyers would refuse to bid
on this clip, and it was somewhat of
surprise to the crowd, all of whom had
heard the story, to see the clip put up
this morning. 1t was learned that the
majority of the buyers agreed to old
upon it, though Thayer did not even
look the fleeces over, much less make
a bid. Many look upon the incident as
Indicating the anxiety of the buyers 10
get wool this year under any circum-
stances.
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