The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
WOOL FREE FROM GREASE
Excellent Reports From the
Shearing Pens.
DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS
Means More Money for the Sheep
men-Buyers Are Eager to Get
the Clips Good Prices
Are Assured.

Great Falls, June 25.-Reports from
atna are to the effect that the clip of
this year is extraordinarily free from
grease and dirt and therefore the gross
weight will not make as great a show
ing as possibly in preceding years. The
staple is also reported as considerably
better than in former years. The first
part of the reports is undoubtedly due
to the unusually heavy rains of the
spring and partly to the excellence of
the wintering of the sheep generally
The latter condition would also tend to
the producing of a better quality of
staple. These reports confirm the pre-
dictions made in this column before
shearing began, and they are crafty
ing not only from that standpoint, but
from that of the owner who, with light
and clean wool to sell, is likely to meet
with no extortionate deduction from
the buyers for dirt and grease. Clean
wool will also stand possible wetting
better and dry out quicker than greasy
wool, and this fact lessons the danger
from storms either during the shearing
or during transportation to market.
Another feature in the wool situa-
ton which ought to be highly salts
the buyers this spring. They have evil
IDENTIFY lost no time in getting out into
the country and interviewing the flock
owners. In some cases the years clip
has been purchased on the sleeps
back, and this is more than unusual
and shows that there is an eagerness
on the part of the buyer to secure his
purchases as early as possible. How
long this eagerness will continue re-
mains to be seen, and while it would be
folly for the grower to hurry in selling
his years crop, there will be some dan
ger of holding the clips too long. 1t IS
predicted that wool will sell better in
the first half than in the last half of
the local market, owing to tendency
of the early and eager buyers to over
stock in purchases. Predictions of 20
cent wool continue and apparently are
well founded, thought it is only the
choicest clips which will reach that fig
ure The average of the market from
present indications ought to be in the
neighborhoodt of 16 cents. Dakota clips
are reported as selling this year at Is
and IL cents, as against IL cents last
year. Montana wool usually brings
higher price 4 than n Dakota wool, al
though in the particular sales there
may have been some circumstances to
raise the price which are not reported.
The sales were, however of large clips,
one reaching 100000 pounds.
The sales reported this week in
Northern Montana are as follows:
Hicks G. Lyon of Chinook sold to Kosh-
land Bros. at 1874 cents; at Chester,
in Choteau county, Strobe & Dorsey
sold for 1915 cents to jeremiah Will
Jams G. Co of Boston, and the same
buyer got the Ed Trommer clip at
1914 cents, the latter clip being sold on
the sleeps back These clips last year
brought - to IA cents in market
where the competition was not very
strong.
Evidences of the approach of the
wool season are multiplying, although
as yet not a sale has been made in this
city. During the past week freighters
with wool have struggled into town at
the rate of one or two each day, and
unloaded their bales down at the ware
house on Second street south, but by
the end of the week it is likely to be
daily sight for a dozen outfits to be
lined up in front of that building wait
ing their turns. Two of the buyers
reached this city this afternoon on the
train from the East. They were II. s.
Hallett, representing the large Boston
house of Koshland Brothers, and F. w.
Thayer,, of Whitman, Farnsworth &
Thayer, of the same city. Jemiah
Williams & Co. have buyer out in the
country in this vicinity, and it is only
matter of a few days now before the
entire fraternity will be seen on the
streets. Colonel Rice, who operates the
balers at the warehouse, is not here
vet, but is expected this week, and the
buyers state that the market will open
on July 1 at this point. Some time in
the second week market days for Bos-
ton and Chinook will probably be ar
ranged according to the annual custom.