East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-10-26

buyers are now in the markets of
Utah Wyoming and Montana paving
iiVe and six cents per pound more
than last season for the same grades
OF wool for next springs delivery
for wool that is not yet grown. Every
anticipation by buyers and heavy
dealers and the trade and commercial
publications. is that there is to be a
boom next year in the wool trade in
all parts of the world. and the manu-
tacturers are i'm the lists this early to
anticipate the time when wool will be
hard to get and then at almost pro-
hibitive prices.
Further than this, wool is selling
now i'm st. Paul for 20 cents per
pound-also of next years clip.
Four buyers of sheep arrived at the
Hotel Pendleton a few days ago and
Immediately scattered throughout
Eastern Oregon in search of sheep.
Other buyers are known to have ar
rived from different parts of the
country before and since, and it is
further known that 1t is almost inn
possible for them to find what they
want. The four Montana men an
nounced when they came that they
want 10000 yearling ewes and
breeders generally and falling to
find their first choice in numbers to
suit them they will buy range sheep
of all classes.
Prices Advanced.
Five weeks ago, at Shaniko, year
ling ewes We're held at $i.75. Two
weeks ago they advanced to $2.25.
and it is known that at this time
some of the sheepmen are actually
holding out for s2.25 per head for
culls of yearling wethers. All the time
it is possible that some of the sheep
men may overreach and fall down. At
the same time any considerable re-
action from the present tendency for
prices to go upward and stay at a
stiff price is hardly possible i'm the
opinion of the most experienced and
successful sheepmen of Umatilla
county.
The situation in the interior is ac-
centuated in favor of the owners of
sheep by the phenomenaly fine. fall
range and abundance of feed for win
der, which are portents of fine wool
crop grown at a minimum of ex-
pense; and to this prospect is coupled
the universal belief that next year will
be year of good prices for the wool
Wants 10000 Yearlings.
The ]. D. Wood Company of Salt
Lake. one of the heaviest sheep firms
west of the Missouri river, writes to a
local firm of sheepmen asking for
prices on 10000 yearling ewes. The
reply did not quote any prices, be-
cause the sheep are not i'm Umatilla
county at any price. The Wood COM
pany wants ewes that are one-halt
Merino and the other half either Cots
void or Shropshires The Wood com
pany will further find. If 1t has not
yet found, that 1t will experience ina
bility to get these sheep anywhere in
the United States as the condition sc
confidently expressed by one of Uma-
tilla county's sheep kings last spring
as being on the road, is actually
here. viz: there is a shortage of typi-
cal mutton stockers all over the Unit
ed States.
Right now Umatilla county sheep.
men with the cash in their jeans
who have sold off their flocks closer
than they would have done perhaps
had they realized the result. are
securing all Central Oregon after
; yearling ewes. and in fact all Other
classes of stock sheep, and are una
BILE to find them except at the prices
5 suggested by the latest news from
Shaniko.