Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-07-13
WOOL BRINGS
GOOD PRICES
Over Three Quarters Of a Million
Pounds Sold on Lewistown Mar
ket at Average Of 10 Cents.
SALES MADE BY SEALED BIDS
Warehouse Almost Full and Many
Clips to Come in-stephens Clip
Sold-Sales Elsewhere.

The busiest place in town at tn,
present time is the wool warehous,
and the big building Is full TO over
flowing. Two baling machines are il
operation all the time and large
force Of men is employed to handl,
the wool. but the wagons keep com
ing in and the capacity of the hous,
Is taxed to It's utmost.
The wool sales are going briskl,
on and the growers are getting goo,
prices for their product. The buy
ers now operating in Lewistown ar,
Messrs. Trumbull, Patterson. Eschle
man. Stressinger and Frazer and the!
have made an agreement among them
selves that all sales shall be by seal
ed bids. thus giving all an equa
chance and preventing one man from
going off into the country and pickins
up choice clips at his own figures
The largest sales reported SO fal
are those OF Oscar Stephens and the
Fergus outfits. Mr.. Stephens sold
10000 pounds at the rate of is cents
pound and the Fergus Live Stock
Land company sold its clip. amount
Ing to 10000 pounds, at 1885 cents
pound.
The highest price received so far
has been that of Herb. Imislund al
| 1915 cents n pound.
There yet remain some twenty Oh
twenty-five clips to come in and the
total receipts will be well over three
million pounds.
II has been reported that a night
shift will be put on at the warehouse
soon and If that is the case the work
OF baling and loading will progress
rapidly. The men are working theiI
hardest now but so great Is the Quan
tity of wool in the warehouse that
they seem to make very little impres
sion on IL.
The sales reported for the weei
are:
To Patterson for jeremiah William,
& Co.:
Brooks Bros. $4,000 pounds, con
sideration private.
Walter Winnett $1,000 pounds at Is
cents.
J. W. Woods 1900 pounds at liz
cents.
E. w. Grimes $500 pounds at 1914
cents.
w. NJ. Busch. 10000 pounds at 17ls
cents.
Baker & RAIDER 10000 pounds al
1914 cents.
Ole Vinger $1,000 pounds at 16 cts
william Bean $4,000 pounds at Is
cents.
R. A. Jellison 10000 pounds at II
rs cents.
T. Fletcher. 10000 pounds at l71s
cents.
NJ. A. Stoutenberg 1000 pounds a,
17h cents.
Jack Rowley $4,000 pounds at 17h
cents.
To Trumbull for Whitman. Farms
worth e. Thayer:
Oscar Stephens 10000 pounds al
Is cents.
P. C. weydert 1900 pounds at lsaa
cents.
S. Mauland 10000 pounds at 1ss
cents.
Pete Mcconnell 10000 pounds al
l73s cents.
Levi Knerr 10000 pounds at 1873
cents.
Herb ImisIund 1850 pounds at 1917
cents.
To Eshleman for Justice, Batemar
Il Co..
Fergus Land e Live Stock Co. l20.
900 pounds at 1895 cents.
To Stressinger for Dewey Gould &
Co.:
James Raw 12,OOO pounds at 1874
cents.
To Hutchins for Hecht, Lehman d
Co.:
G. j. Gjerde 10000 pounds at l7K
cents.
To Jim Frazer:
George Wright $4,000 pounds al
l7k cents.
Knerr Bros. 10000 pounds at Ii
cents.
The above sales aggregate 7S2,75t
pounds and the average price is bu
a slight fraction under IS cents.
The receipts for the last two days
have been enormous and there is al
ways long line of wagons piled higt
with wool waiting 10 be unloaded al
one time. Tuesday afternoon there
we're twenty-one wagons In line
awaiting their turn. The officials al
the warehouse figure that there haC
been close TO 1,445,000 pounds of WOO
sold up to Monday night. It is esti
mated that by noon today there viii
have been received about 1,250,00t
pounds.
The buyers operating in Lewlstowr
at present are: Patterson for Jere
miah Williams & Co., Trumbull fol
Whitman, Farnsworth x Thayer, Esh
leman for Justice. Bateman e. Co.
Stressinger for Dewey, Gould & Co.
Merrill for Luce & Manning, ant
Frazer. who Is buying independently
Hutchins. who was here In the inter
ests of Hecht. Lehman & Co., lef
for the east Friday morning.
Great Falls. July 7.-Nineteen cent
per pound was paid on the Grea
Falls wool exchange today for $1,000
pounds OF Teton county wool. tn
clips OF Coffey & Wallenstein OF BY
mum and August Kropp OF Conrad.
The sales Of the day were 211,50
pounds. at an average of 1853 cents
the range being from 15h to 1s cents
The sales:
} Coffey G. Wallenstein. $4,000 lbs
at 19 cents. to l.. G. Holden, for Dew
, ey. Gould & Co.
! August Kropp. $4,000 pounds. at /
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