The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-03
they are being watched with tn
closest attention.
Demand for Coarser Woods.

been for a general assortment, as be-
fore stated, the inquiry has been more
pronounced, if anything, for the
coarser woods, which are regarded as
in a very strong position. Medium
territories, quarter and three-eighths
blood ~fleeces, supers and low woods
have been in especially good request.
Liberal purchases are reported to
have been made in Liverpool last
week of East India woods to be used
in clothing fabrics, and for English
and Irish woods there is a continued
good demand. ia the same time there
is a good inquiry for fine woods, es-
p~ecially fine secured, which sells
readily at full values for good stock.
Choice fine stock commands 55c.
Texas, California and Oregon.
In Texas wools,- there has been
some trading-mostly in years
growth stock, but the volume of bus
mess, all told, is only moderate. Full
prices are obtained, however, where
sales are made. Thus a fair-sized
line of choice IL months stock has
been sold at zoe in the grease, to
cost Coo, clean. The supply of this
class of stock is now in very small
compass. Some eight months wool
has also sold at a clean cost of 53@55c.
Fall Texas woods are inactive, al
though a little business is reported to
have been put through at a clean
cost of 47-48c.
California woods are only moderate
ly active. and the business of the
week has been confined chiefly to the
sale of a few northern woods at a
clean cost of 52@53c. Some middle
county wool has changed hands at AZ
@4Sc, and there is some interest still
shown in defective stock around a
clean cost of a third of a dollar, al
though no stable business has been
done Stocks of California, both on
the Pacific coast and at the eastern
seaboard, are unusually small for this
time of the year.
Oregon woods continue quiet and
without feature, although quotations
are nominally unchanged and firm.
Good staple woods are worth about
55c, clean, or 1S@19c in the grease.
Territories.
Territorial woods have been
| active. They have been selling pretty
! steadily all the week, and at firm
| prices, Philadelphia consumers being
the most conspicuous buyers. A large
line of Wyoming was sold at full
rates, within the range of 16@1Sc
in Montanas, Idahos and Utahs. Me-
dunn Utahs have sold we'll at a clean
cost of 46@47c. Medium Montanas
have been taken at prices ranging
from tic to zoe in the grease. Some
of this wool is claimed to have cost
48c, clean. For fine medium a good
demand is also reported, with sales
of Idaho at 16@16hc, and of Mon
tana at 16@18c, the latter costing
about SIC, clean. Reports come
from Idaho of moderate purchases on
the sleeps back at 13c for eastern &C.
counts, but it is not believed that
the great majority of the large mer-
chants will indulge in this kind OF
business this year to any extent. In
this market territorial woods, based
on the transactions of the past week
may be quoted at the following clean
prices: Fine medium, 50@52c; fine
53@55c; the latter for dead fine
woods; fine staple, 55@57c; medium
territories, 45@48c. Colorado ano
New Mexican secured woods are very
firm. There is a good demand FOL
such stock, and more would have
been sold, if there had been more
here. Sales of No. 2 are reported t.
have been made within the range O
44@46c.
Receipts and Shipments.
The receipts of wool in Boston thi.
week, last week and for the CORE
spending week of last year are al
follows:
This week, 9,779 bales domestic
$40 bales foreign Total, 1878 bales
Last week, $3.50 bales domestic
1882 bales foreign. Total, 1903
bales
Last year, 14,131 bales domestic
1921 bales foreign. Total, 1857
bales.
! The total receipts since January
have been 3O,221 bales domestic an