The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-03

VIII d Dig llenQdnCe Ol buyers, III
Guiding several from the United
States, among them three representa-
rives Of large mills.
The total amount available for the
sales is 1873, 500 bales, including $4,000
bales carried over from the second
series. There will be about 10000
bales of crossbreds offered. The sale,
therefore, will be more OF a merino
than a crossbred sale. AS to prices
predictions point to a general adj
vance How much it will be at the
opening is of course a matter OF guess.
work. But the prophets predict a 10
per cent rise in merinos and D per
cent improvement in c%rossbreds, that
is over the closing rates of the March
sales. 1t will be proven, it is said,
that at the latter sales merinos we're
cheaper than they VII 5e II lay
and perhaps during the year.
Last week a second sale of Cape OF
Good Hope and Natal sheepskins was
held at London on Friday. The Of
ferings were small, amounting to
114,O10 skins and of Indifferent quality
in poor condition. There was a strong
demand, especially for all woody skins.
Extra long and long wooded were
A@Ad dearer, and short wooded and
shorn were firm and unchanged.
Lambs and damaged skins were I'D.
higher. Coarse grains were in active
request at an advance of B@Ad.
1 1o4o.& ..-.J .~,~- S~~-, D-ol
ford says:
1.-The market is again more buoy
ant in tone, and in crossbreds and in
English woods there is unquestionably
more business doing. Quotations are
not altered rom Thursday, but the
tendency is against the buyer. Me-
rinos are practically stationary. In
mohair business is slow, and the only
descriptions inquired for are low
woods, which are scarce.
I'm the export yarns trade mer-
chants buy only from hand to mouth,
but here and there one hears that
quietly a fair order has been placed.
There are indications also Of a return
to thicker counts, and some spinners
are busy OF these. Thirties demi
are also hardening in consequence
of recent transactions. Super-lustres
are neglected and a little irregular.
In mohairs there has been a fair bust
ness in two-fold 16s, ana some IN 32s,
with the effect that prices have stiff
fened somewhat. Botany spinners
report no improvement, except per-
haps a little more in coatings. Prices
are, however, unsatisfactory.
1.-The bright, fine weather of the
weekend has produced a much more
hopeful feeling in the home piece
trade warehouses, and the opinion pre-
walls hat we may have a short, sharp
season in spring stuffs which will
materially alter the aspect of trade,
1t is, however, too late for manufac'
%turers to obtain lev orders"
Territory Woods.
Territory wool has been selling
mostly in small lots. But rumor has
it that there has been M exception
in the way OF a sale OF 100000
pounds of Montana, the terms and the
particulars of which are not announc'
ed. There is considerable doubt in
the trade as to whether any such
:, sale was made this week. If it was
made it was at a low price. About
the largest sale made public was one
of $4,000 pounds medium clothing at
1910. The bulk of the weeks bust
ness has been in lots of 10000 tc
$4,000 pounds and there have beer
very few of these. The market, or
the whole, has been decidedly quiet
The secured basis of fine clothing is
around SOC, and of fine medium ranges
from 46@48c. New Arizona wools are
on the market, but have not sold.
Taking into consideration the prices
so far paid for the new woods, values
here appear to be about as low as
!, in Boston today, would show a loss Of
/ several cents. In the range of Ii te
lac there has been considerable sell
ing in both Utah and Wyoming. II
Casper about everything so far offer
/. ed has been snapped up at lac.
|, From buyers comes the information
that all territory woods are heavie'
than last year by several per cent
, This has not restrained operators
Neither has the advice given to Bos
ton dealers this week by one Of thu
big that they were paying
too much had any effect, so far al
: can be d%iscerned.
Texas, Oregon and California.
Texas wool is neither present no
accounted for. So far as known Their
\ has not been a single sale even o