The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-21
LARGE INCREASE IN SALES
Prices Showing an Upward Tendency
With Growing Demand-Ter-
ritories Moving Freely.

Boston market aggregated 7,S2O,OOC
pounds. OF this amount 4,34O,O 0
pounds was territory, at from Is to
20 cents.
The market has been decidedly more
active the past week, says the Ameri-
can Wool and Cotton Reporter.
Large consumers, including the Pa.
cific mills, the Arlington mills, the
American Wooden company, two Phil
adelphia worsted mills and others,
as we'll as the moderate or smaller
sized concerns have come into the
market, and in a few instances have
taken on some good sized lines of
wool, ranging in amounts from half a
million to a million and a half pounds,
each. Quite a number of smaller
sized lots have also been contracted
for, which swells the aggregate of
sales to the largest total which has
been seer for many weeks.
The Pacific mills are reported to
have bought freely of feeces and ter
ritories; the Arlington mills of ter
ritories, and Grundy of Philadelphia
of South Americans. The American
Wooden company purchased moderate.
ly of low domestics, South American
and secured woods, and. the mills of
Deering, Milliken & Co. purchased
freely of territories. The cheviot
mills and makers of homespuns and
crashes bought literally of pulled
and secured woods.
Woods That Have Sold.
The woods which have figured most
largely in the business OF the past
week have been old Montanas, new
Vtahs, Idahos and Wyomings, low
woods, both f1eeces and territories,
new Texas, delaine woods and pulled
woods. The prices which have been
paid, in some instances, show slight
advances. This is especially true of
pulled woods and medium territories.
Medium and low stock, indeed, can be
quoted as actually higher in price,
while on other classes of wool it is
easier for holders to obtain asking
prices than it was some time ago. The
tone of the market throughout is
strong, and holders generally are look
ino for hiohnr nrinnr Moprfoo fr,rovo
however, are still slow IN coming up
to the ideas of the holders, although in
some cases, where they have been alb
solutely in need of stock, they have
been obliged to pay the holders price.
The tendency of the past weeks
business has been to broaden; that is,
the demand is for a greater variety of
stock and this demand has been felt
by a larger number of houses in the
trade, although several merchants,
who usually do fully an average bust
ness, report the market as quiet.
Are Arriving Freely.
The e woods are arriving freely
and are opening up fairly we'll. Some
OF them are in prime condition and
unusually light in shrinkage. High
prices are asked for many of them,
and it is now a question as to whether
consumers will come up to the ideas
OF the holders. The new territory woods
which have thus far been sold have
been generally light, and have cost
the consumer about the same clean
price as he had been previously pay
ing for wool-possibly a cent or two
per secured pound more. Thus one
big block of nice fine and fine medium
territory sold at sic, clean. The ac-
ton OF consumers will be governed
largely of course by the developments
in the goods market. The lines of
fabrics which have thus far been
opened have been put on the market
at practically last years prices, al
though comparisons with last year are
difficult by reason of the fact that
the fabrics have been altered in con-
struction to such an extent.
Best Sellers.
The lower grades of goods have been
the best sellers those made of me-
dunn and low woods, the cost of
which has enabled the makers to put
the goods on the market at a price
which will pay. There has
unquestionably been a more liberal use
of substitutes in this seasons business
and it is doubtful if buyers of goods
In many cases are actually getting
exactly as good q fabric at exactly the