The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
are still busily occupied on duplicate
lightweight orders and have not yet
shown their heavy weights.
Inquiry Evenly Distributed.

Inquiry Evenly Distributed.
While the inquiry for wool has not
been large, it has been pretty evenly
| distributed over the various grades
of good character and quality sell per-
haps more freely than anything else,
although the volume Of business in
this class of stock is not as large as
it was. The houses which have va
ried stocks on hand are the ones
which have done the business rather
than the houses which run on special
ties or a few limited lines. Generally
speaking, the demand may be said to
have run more to the medium grades
of wool than the others. Some fine
staple woods have been disposed Of,
however, and good, choice stock Of
this class has readily commanded full
prices when wanted.
News from the West.
The news from the west indicates
that growers in Nevada have refused
in some cases IA cents for some of the
best clips of next seasons wool. The
growers seem to be aware that stocks
at the seaboard are light and that the
trade will go over into the new season
with supplies pretty we'll cleaned up,
and they seem determined to exact
from eastern buyers all that they pos
clip and that the sheep as a whole
are coming through the winter in
good shape. In California there have
been good, beneficial rains, and range
conditions are reported as excellent.
Texas, California and Oregon.
The volume of business transacted
in Texas woods continues small, due
partly to the limited supplies here.
There has been a little doing in years
growth at zoe, to cost 60c, clean.
Some consumers will not pay over
19c, but as yet holders who have
been asking zoe have made no con-
cession. There is not enough of it
here to warrant and concession. Eight
months stock has sold in a limited
way at 18@1Shc. Fall woods have
been quiet at unchanged prices.
California woods have shown a lit
tie more life, but no large business
has been done in them. They are sell
ing at 52@53c for best northern stock,
47@4Sc for middle county. Good,
free, fall southern California has sold
at 43@44c; free secured spring, at
4S@5Oc; and defective woods at 800
35c.
y Oregon wool also has shown a little |
more animation, but the business of
the week does not exceed 10000
pounds, 100, 900 of which consisted of
eastern staple, which is reported to
have been sold at 19c, to cost 55c,
Stocks of Oregon will be
practically all cleaned up before the
new clip begins to move and the mar
ket on Oregon is firm. No. | and No.
2 Valley Oregon wool is quotable at
in the grease.
Territories.
There has been a steady but a COM
moderate call for territor-
les. There is more or less looking
around on the part of the mills,
whether the latter decide to buy or
not, and where the wool is actually |
wanted some fair-sized sales have
been consummated at full prices. The
market as a whole, however, is in q
waiting position, and no very large
transactions are reported. Even
houses which are apt to be doing
quite a sizeable business when trade
with other houses is dull, report that
they have done but little the past
week. Prices are still firmly sus-l
tanned, and no weakness is anywhere
.discernible. Fine medium Utah woods
have sold at fully SIC, clean. Medium
Utahs have sold well within the range
of 17h @18hc, to cost 46@47c,
Among the sales of the week
were $4,000 pounds at the prices
quoted. There has been a call for
both staple and clothing woods, al
though the bulk of the demand has
been for the latter. Very fine woods
have commanded full prices, nice Ne
vadas selling at 53@55c, clean. Me-
dunn Montanas and Idahos have sold
at 46@48c. In the grease, fine and
fine medium Wyomings have been
taken at 14@16hc. On the secured
basis, territorial woods, as a whole,
hauo sold at 50mh1c for fine madinm