Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-25

cost 53@55c, clean, landed. This clip
amounts to about 500, 900 pounds.
Outside of the sale of a few round
lots of territories, some medium f1eeces
and secured woods, the demand has
been very quiet throughout the week,
and number of houses report that
they have sold scarcely a pound of
wool. number of the largest houses
in the trade have done practically moth
ing and are not buying woods in the
interior. All are mindful of the strong
statistical position of the raw material
all over the world. but it is also
realized that however small the avail
able supply of wool may be, if the de-
mand does not materialize, it is very
di ffiCult matter to establish an advance
in the price of wool. Holders may ask
high prices for their wools, but it takes
two to make trade, and if consumer
is not receiving the business which he
considers he should be receiving, he
Will be very moderate purchaser of
on the stocks of WOODS in the market
will be increasing. In the next mo nth
or six weeks there will be large arriv-
ais of wool in the Boston market and
selections will, in all probability,
show decided increase. and until the
manufacturer has a more definite
| knowledge than he now possesses as to
| the character and size of the demand
for light weight goods, he will prob
ably be in no hurry to lay in large
lines of new woods, especially if he is
obliged to pay materially higher prices
than he has been paying for wool. The
course of the goods market as we have
before remarked, will be determin-
ing factor in this matter.
In the west, ex ,ept for the transac-
tions in Oregon referred to, things APP
pear to have quoted down recently and
some houses have taken their buyers
out of the field. Here and there some
OF the growers are reported as being
somewhat easier in their ideas as to
the value OF wool, but prices as
whole are we'll sustained and such
transactions as are reported are at or
very near the top figures Ct the season.
Abroad the situation continues to be
characterized by strength and latest
advices are to the effect that the next
, London sales will open up firm on
merinos and probably slightly higher
on cross breeds.
The demand for territorial wool has
improved. Manufacturers have shown
more OF an inclination to take hold and
a few good sized sales have been made,
e besides which quite a number of the
: smaller mills have taken on moderate
sized lines. The large mills have not
r as a rule been free buyers of territorial
\ woods, and the large men, wear worst
Y ed mills have scarcely figured in the
. business at all. The WOODEN mills
u have been the principal buyers. We
/ have already alluded to the sales OF
$ new territorial wcos-largely Arizo-
v mas and Utahs, with some Wyomings.
y These woods were secured in the early
. part of the season in the interior. and,
h being of light shrinkage, were turned
e over the past week at a relatively good
Il price in the grease, the party making
, some of these sales claiming that he
h obtained 1872 0o19ac for mediums, ITO
$ 1Sc for fine mediums and 10MlTc for
v fine, although these are higher prices
# than woods of average shrinkage will
| bring today. The demand has been
v princi pally for the fine medium and
, the medium, and for the clothing wools,
: the demand for combing woods being
a very quiet. 1t is on the goods into the
n manufacturer of which the shorter
$ woods rather than the combing woods
+ enter that recorders have been received
. and consequently the inquiry is more
t pronounced for the clothing woods Fine
i medium territory sells ut Asa SOC, clean
2 fine 5OM52c; fine staple, 5Sc: good
}. medium 45046c. Secured territory
e woods have been in good request at as
d Ga soc, for nice stock. Indeed, all kind $
/ of secured WOODS sell readily and stocks
= are within small campass.
Among the sales in the grease one
house reports transactions of fully d
:, half million pounds with the range Of