The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
WOOL MARKET IS CLOSED
A Few Struggling Clips Are Still
to Be Sold.
PRICES WERE VERY GOOD
Sales for the Last Day OF the Market.
Growers Are Responsible for the
Faults They Are Kick
ing About.

Great Falls, July 31.-The wool mar
ket for Great Falls practically closed
to-day There may be clips which will
arrive tonight or tomorrow or later,
and be picked up by eager buyers or
the reverse, but there will be no more
of the sales which have been going on
for the last three weeks. The buyers
who have been decorating the streets
and the verandas of the hotels are
preparing to move on to fresh fields or
to proceed to the home offices and
there put in the rest of the year in
sorting and selling woods and the
growers have gone back to the ranch
to figure out the exact profit for the
year just passed. on the whole they
are probably satisfied with the
amounts now to their credit in the
banks of this city, but there are those
who are never satisfied and there are
those who really have ground for
complaint. But to both of them there
is but one thought, and that is the
grower is responsible for whatever de-
fects there may be in the market here.
Until the growers can quit being jeal-
Gus of each other and get together and
decide how they wish the market run,
they will be to certain extent at the
mercy of the buyer, and this is moth
ing to the discredit of the latter He
is here to make as much money as he
can, and If he has lucky season he
is to be congratulated. 1t is up to the
grower to prevent him if possible.
For the last day of the market the
prices were very good The sales OF
the morning were as follows: Clark
Bros. of Bynum, $4,000 pounds to f. w.
Thayer, for Whitman, Farnsworth &
Thayer of Boston, at is cents; p. l..
Moule of Bercail, 10000 pounds to T. S.
Barraclough, for ]. Koshland & Co.
of Boston, at Tx cents; j. f. Helm of
Dupuyer, $4,000 pounds to ]. r. Patter-
son, for jeremiah Williams & Co. of
Boston, at 1874 cents; II. Jensen of
Dupuyer, 10000 pounds to Barraclough,
at 171a cents; Henry Ryan of Dupuyer,
$4,000 pounds to Barraclough, at 1872
cents; $4,000 pounds to Thayer, at 115s
cents; Zeno Balm of Stanford, 1900
pounds to j. E. Morse, for Harding &
Caverly of Boston, at 1615 cents, j. Q.
Husser of White Sulphur Springs, 1000
pounds of Fergus county wool to Bar
raclough, at Is cents.
There is another consideration. 1t
makes no difference what is claimed
by other markets, the largest price per
pound for wool was paid here, and
that price was 205s cents. Other places
and markets may claim that some
price larger than that paid in any 9TH
er part of the state was paid for some
specific clip. but such vague claims
are not entitled to credit. The highest
price paid here has been announced
in exact figures and that will stand
against any claim not so announced.
Great Falls in 1899 maintains the rep
utation which it has borne previously
of being the best market for wool in
the state. In the matter of the weight
of the wool marketed here, it now
looks as if the total would fall short
of 100000 pounds. This shortage is
due to the unprecedented lightness of
the fieeces, but the number of clips
brought here this year exceeds any
former market. At the same time it
is true that unless further inducements
are offered to growers this city cannot
forever hold its supremacy as a wool
market.