The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-19
WOOL MARKET SLUGGISH AND
LOWER.
SOME CoNSICNMENTS MADE
After Bids Were Refused-wool
to Come Here From
Miles City.
From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.

fTOm wednesday, 3 Ddlly 1dAette.
Yesterdays wool business on the
local market did not come up to that
of the day previous either as to price
or aggregate number of pounds sold.
The prices paid would compare very
%favorably with those of Monday when
the clips were taken into considera-
ton, as in every instance they were
inferior. Although the sales were not
as large yet they nearly reached the
400, 900 pound mark. There is little
doubt but that they would have reach
ed nearly 100000 pounds had it not
been for the delay again in getting
out the sample sacks at the Northern
held there, it being the clip of Leh-
feldt Bros, which was the largest of
the day. In all probability today's
sales viii go far ahead of any yet this
season. They will begin at the North
ern Pacific at s o'clock this morning
and will continue at that place
throughout the day. The Wednesday
and Thursday list is already filled at
this place and this will be the case for
several days, as there are so many
growers who desire to get their wool
on the market during the next few
days.
The buyers are contemplating a
trip to the Great Falls market, leav-
ing this city Saturday night. The
purpose of the visit is to inspect the
woods at that point in order to de-
termine- if the buyers at that place
at the present time are justified in
paying the prices that they are pay
ing.
Lehfeldt Bros, Lavina; $50, 600
pounds at 14A cents. jeremiah Will
liams & Co., Heict, Lehman & Co.,
and Dewey, Gould & Co., tied and the
clip was divided.
Jas. l.. Ash, Billings; $4,000 pounds
at 1875 cents to Yegen Bros.
4 G. M. Clary, Billings; 10000 pounds
at 1875 cents to ]. Koshland & Co.
DIR. W. x. sudduth, Fairview; $4,000
pounds at 1875 cents to Heict, Lieb.
man & Co.
Snidow Sheep Co., Billings; 100000
pounds at 1874 cents to jeremiah Viii
liams & Co.
T. G. Keithley, Billings; $4,000
pounds at II cents to Yegen Bros.
-~l norvo,, C@,,1I o. NJ uYhncn HID
tied.
J. B. Adams, Billings; $4,000 pounds
at IL cents to jeremiah Williams &
Co.
Ora Clement, Flatwillow, 1900
pounds at 1875 cents to jeremiah Viii
liams & Co.
Frank Degner, Flatwillow; 500
pounds at 1925 cents to Yegen Bros
Bailey & Sullivan Billings; 500
pounds at IL cents to Yegen Bros.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.
The wool business showed UP in
sluggish form yesterday with price
slightly lower than those of the pre-
ceeding day. The buyers did no
show as much interest in the marke
as they have previously, and the fac
u was very evident to the growers. 0.
many Of the clips only two bids wei
offered. 1t was a day in which tn
grower thought he was getting tn
worse Of the proposition and it r.
suited in the latter, in several II
stances, refusing to sell. Early
the season the buyers were runnin
after and urging the growers to sell
now it looks as if the opposite woul
be the case. Some of the grower
who had listed their clips to be pla'
ed on the market this week have pull
Il ed them off, owing to the decline an
+ will wait for future developments. b
X fore they make the attempt.
& The buyers contend that they hay
Il been paying too high prices all alon
and that they are consequently for
ed to come down a notch or two. b
the notches have come down rattle
sudden for thhe growers and the
can not understand it. 1t is believe
by some of the growers that too mue
wool is being put up daily. If tt
number of clips we're reduced SO tn
the amount would not look so lar,
it is thought that better prices o
be recorded.
Yesterday proved a grouty day t
the buyers. OF course, the day W
exceptionally warm, and this m
have had something to do with the
feeling badly. They raised all sol
of objections and in a measure we
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