The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-25

Americans paying full prices for suita-
BILE parcels of fine qualities. Cape OF
Good Hope and Natal secured sold
steadily. Greasy and lower grades
of lambs were keenly competed for by
the home trade and the continent.
Victorias sold at Is.
Following nre the sales:
South Wales 8, 500 bales; secured
Sd to Is i'd; greasy 34 to 9hd.
Queensland, 1900 bales; secured IL
I'D to is I'D; greasy 6Ad to 713d.
Victoria 2,2O0 bales; secured 6hd
to 2s; greasy ~ to 111d.
South Australia 1,200 bales; greasy
4 to sgd.
New Zealand 315 bales, secured
sid to Is sgd; greasy Sd.
Cape of Good Hope and Natal 80
bales; secured 1Od to Is sgd; greasy
3A to 7hd.
Boston Wool Ma1ket.
: Boston, Jan. 22-The wool market
here is quiet, but prices hold steadily.
The demand is confined to the actual
necessities of the manufacturers.
There seems to be no special reason to
induce purchases ahead and what sales
have been made are in spots.
The range of fine medium and
staples in secured, is from 46 to 48
cents, while strictly staple lots call
for 40 to SO cents. Fleece woods are
slow and prices nominal. The follow
ing are quotations:
Ohio and Pennsylvania, Xxx and
Xxx above 20, cents; Dolaine 20 cents;
No. l combing 80; No. 2, three
eighths blood % to 80; quarter blood
washed 81 to %; coarse and braid
washed % to 26.
Michigan and Wisconsin: K Michi-
gan % to 90; No. / combing ~ to %;
No. 2, 26 to ~; quarter blood washed
% to 30.
Territory woods secured, Montana
and Wyoming: Fine medium and fine
16 to II; secured 46 to 48; staple 40
to SO.
Australian woods secured basis, spot
prices, combing superfne nominal IS
to rs; good 81 to 70; average sc to 81.
Boston, Jan. 23-The American
Wool and Cotton Reporter will say Of
the wool trade tomorrow: It is q
pretty monotonous state of affairs
which one finds in the Boston wool
market at present. There is an entire
absence of that snap and vivacity
which one finds in a bull period. To-
day the smallest items of news SEEM
large and important and if they have
the least likelihood of influencing the.
market favorably are regarded as
worthy of notice. A few weeks ago
the trade were waiting for two events,
the opening of the heavy weight sea-
son and the opening of the London
sales. Two weeks ago the American
Wooden company opened it's lines Of
~overcoatings and took good orders.
The other houses followed with their
~overcoating lines. But the wool deal
ers are as yet unable to see any great
amount of new business on this ac-
count. Now they are waiting for the
opening Of the other heavy weight
lines, the first part of January. a.
week ago the London sales opened
and at an advance. This, too, has not
caused any great amount Of business
to be transacted. A little better tone,
perhaps, but trade waits this time to
see how prices hold up in London.
Prices are not at all weak and what
ever the apathy of the market may be-,
and however small the quantity Of
sales, the fact remains that the dealers
and farmers alike are not letting up
one whit on their opinion in the value
of their commodity. That is one
reason why sales are SO light because
the dealers will not make concessions.
The sales for the week in Boston
amounted to LILO, 900 pounds domes-
tic and 115, 900 pounds foreign, MAX
ing a total Of l 1885, 900 pounds, against
a total of 1,718, 900 for the previous
week and a total of 5,l20, 900 for the
corresponding week last year,
The sales since January / amount to
6, 1859, 900 pounds, against 10, 155, 500
pounds for the corresponding time last
year.
Live Stock.
Chicago, Jan. 24-Cattle: Steady
Good to prime steers SIS. 25 to So;
stockers and feeders So to 81. 60; cam
ners So to 1917 c.
Sheep: Steady to 10 cents lower.
Good to choice wethers $3.70 to
81. so; western sheep 1915 to $40;
western lambs SIS to S.. so.
New York Money.
New York. Jan. 24-Money on call
easy at Ia to 2 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 81 to AZ
per cent.
Silver certificates 6311 to 65 cents.
Bar silver 61T cents.