Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-28
@oZoMULsIoN is ON SALE At ALL DRUGGISTS
n tomorrow,s issue: Since wednesday.

in tomorrow's issue: Since Wednesday,
| business has been entirely suspended
-! in Boston, owing to the embargo put
on shipments out of the state by Or
der of the government. The railroads
| have refused all wool for transport out
! of Massachusetts. Before this order
was enforced the market was quiet
| but buyers showed little more in
| terest and several low bids were sub
mitted on large lines, which were
turned down. Prices are steady and
holders show a good degree of con-
fidence. While the opinion that prices
would go higher is exploded, it is not
expected that there will be any fur
Their decline. There is nothing new
from foreign markets except that Lon
don reports better feeling.
The shipments of wool from Boston
to date from Dec. 81, 1902. are 44.267,-
S39 pounds against 44,737,33S pounds at
the same date. last year. The receipts,
to date, are 29,609,918 pounds against
32,067,742 pounds for the same time,
last year.
The Commercial Bulletin has pre-
pared and secured signatures and tele-
graphed the following to Secretary of
agriculture James w liSOH.
Dear Sir: We the undersigned, MEM
bers of the wool trade of Boston, re-
spectfully submit the following for
your consideration and earnestly hope
that you will devise some speedy set
Element of the difficulty which has
arisen owing to your ruling, amend
ment No.. 2, to b. A. l order No. SO, is
sued at Washington, December Is,
1902, for the prevention of the foot and
mouth disease: The railroads and
steamship lines leaving the city of
Boston under this ruling have refused
to receive for shipment any wool for
| points outside of the state of Massacu-
| sets, except foreign WOOL that is,
wool not grown in the United States.
THE total amount of wool raised in
| the infected states is only about 1,5Oo,-
600 pounds. Very little of this wool Is
| handled in Boston, as almost all of it
goes direct to the local mills in these
states. The wool in Boston is from
states that have not been affected by
! this foot and mouth disease, and most
| of it was sheared from the sheep in the
months of May. June and July. shipped
! to Boston and held here in warehouses
| Such woods as have been raised in the
| infected states can be easily located
"Wool after it has been shorn and
shipped comes in contract with neither
animals nor hides. 1t is not even
stored in or near slaughter shouses.
| Pulled wool, pulled from skins of dead
sheep slaughtered outside Of infected
states, and wool pulled in such states
| by those pulIers who use only skins
from the West or from abroad, is al
so never exposed to Infection.
1--WE desire only the privilege of
shipping to points outside of the state
woods that are not even raised in the
now infected states, and we would
gladly cooperate with you to prevent
any shipment from Boston of wools
raised in the infected states In such a
manner as you may suggest.
"You can readily understand that
while this ruling stands the wool bust
ress OF Boston will continue to be at a
standstill, as it is today, and the mills
of New England and the Middle states
are dependent upon Boston for their
supply OF WOOL