Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-07-11
A BIG WOOL DEAL.
A Million Pounds Changed Hands In Las
Vegas Within a Few Days.

The largest wool purchase Of the
season has. from ell accounts, been
made by Thomas Ross Of this city,
within the past few days. It involves
a total of 100000 pounds. divided
about equally between Charles Ilfeld Of
the Plaza department store and the
Browne Manzanares Co. A great deal
of the wool is, Of course, Of last years
clip as the local receipts Of wool have
thus far teen comparatively light.
The amount of wool involved In the
deal can be made the basis for some in
teresting arithmetIcal computations.
For instance, a two horse wagon will
hold ten sacks of wool; each sack con-
tains about 200 pounds. The wool
would therefore make 500 loads. AL
lowing twenty-five feet in length for
each wagon and horses attached, the
wool would make wagon train up.
wards of two and half miles long.
Computed in still another way, the
wool in question would make about So
car loads of an ordinary car thirty
four feet long. Each car of this char
acter will hold sixty sacks of wool or
about 10000 pounds.
If the sacks of wool were placed end
to end, they would make a wall about
five miles long and about two feet high
and wide. The wool. If spun into yarn.
would encircle the globe FIVE or six
times. tffNf Fg4tsf
These computations might be added
to indefinitely at the pleasure of the
mathematician and give the average
reader an idea of the. amount involved
in the deal.
Mr.. Ross will ship part of the wool
to the east without much delay bat
great deal of it is being hauled to local
wool securing plants and is to be put
through that process.
"Las Vegas is the best wool market
for its sizein the world" said Mr.. Ross
today. "Better prices are paid here for
wool than elsewhere. One reason for this
is the quality of the water, its freedom
from alkali and other mineral sub
stances, permitting the local production
of wool to be secured and placed on the
eastern markets in frst-class shape.'
NOTES.
Wool teams are arriving now from |
the outlying districts.
L. A. Hughes, wool buyer from
Santa Fe, is in town today.
Floyd Conan and Pike Havens will
commence to shear at the pens in this
,ity about the 10Th.
Havens & Conan, whose aocks range
'ast of Puerto de Luna, have COM
nenced shearing operations.
Silviano Baca left today for his ranch
1t the east end of the county, to super
intend the shearing of his fiocks.
A. Grzelachowski and J. w. Garrard
have commenced shearing at the
shearing station at Car
rizo, near Puerto de Luna.
Frank Manzanares has commenced
his sheep shearing operations, presuma-
bly, at Pagosa pasture. He has between !
5000 and 6,OC0 head in his flocks and
has twelve or fifteen hands at work. 1t
will take a week before he has finished.
Max Nordhaus, manager for the
Ilfeld establishment returned yester-
day from trip to Puerto de Luna.
He says that since the receat rains
about all the sheepmen are taking ad.
vantage of the favorable conditions
and are shearing.
Shearing has commenced generally
below. the mesa. Owing to the late |
season, shearing has been deferred
fully three weeks. Usually about all
the wool is in the market here or
stored by July 18th. This year, how
ever, it has just begun to come in.