Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-06-29
FERGUS WOOL
AT THE TOP
Nineteen Cents a Pound, Highest
Price Of the Season, Paid for
the Bower Clip.
BUYERS SECURING COUNTRY
Keen Competition Sends Them to the
Homes of the Woolgrowers-Lo-
cal Warehouse Filling.

Never before in the history Of Fer.
gus county were the wool purchasing
houses of the east so anxious TO sc.
cure a part of the splendid crop which
the woolgrowers of this part of Mon
tana always have for sale. They are
not waiting for the wool to come into
the market, but are driving through
the country and Offering the wool.
growers prices ranging from one to
two cents higher than were paid last
year for clips, which meet with their
approval. Several of the finest clips
of the county have already been sold
by the growers at very satisfactory
figures and il now looks that this will
be the banner wool year in every par.
ticular. AS stated in these columns
before, the Fergus county wool is of
a superior quality this year. being of
exceptionally fine staple and in first.
class condition.
The best sale yet recorded in the
state was that of the Bower clip of
Stanford. James Bateman, represent.
ing Justice. Bateman & Co, was the
lucky bidder for the clip, which will
amount to over 300 900 pounds, but
he had to pay an even 10 cents a
pound in order to land the clip. There
were four other bids over Is cents.
The Sage Creek Sheep company al.
so disposed of their clip of 270 900
pounds last week, the transaction hav-
ing been negotiated by II. ID. Ark
wright, representing Halowell, Donald
& Co. who paid 17A cents for the
clip. The Sage Creek clip was sold
in advance last year for In cents,
but was damaged while being taken
to Great Falls and the company was
compelled to ship and finally netted
but 16 cents a pound for 1t.
Another big sale of Fergus county
wool during the last week was that
of Waite, Elliot & Peck, of Utica,
Their clip of 100000 pounds was pur'
chased by +. II. Putnam. representing
Hecht. Lehman & Co, who paid Is
cents for it. One hundred thousand
pounds of this clip is now in Lewis
town in the wool warehouse and the
remainder will be brought in during
the present week. II will probably
be the first to go to the baler and
will be shipped out within a short
time.
Fred France. of Maginnis. sold his
clip Monday to Thomas G. Trumbull
who represents Whitman, Farnsworth
& Thayer. The price was Is cents
a pound and the clip will amount to
about $4,000 pounds.
Rufus b. Thompson, of Highfeld
last week sold 100000 pounds to A
w. Elliott, of jeremiah Williams &
Co., for 16ls cents.
There are several large Fergus
county clips which are yet unsold
but the buyers r after them and sew
eral more good sales will probably be
reported within the next three OIL
four days. One wool grower who has
a particularly choice clip of 10000
pounds has been offered a raise OF
IS cents, but has not yet sold. Among
the buyers WHO are here now are
Thos. Trumbull, for Whitman. Farms
worth G. Thayer; James G. Fraser.
for Brown & Adams, and lie Roy Say
les, who represents a manufacturing
establishment in the east. Messrs
Trumbull and Fraser are out in the
country looking for wool, but Mr.,
Sayles is not making much effort to
buy his wool. as his house thinks that
the present prices are not justified
by conditions and that there Is likely
to be some money lost by commits.
sion houses who are paying the big
prices.
That the scramble for wool and the
large advance purchases are going
to have an effect on the regular WOOL
markets of the state is now an as
sured fact. Those in charge of the
Great Falls wool warehouse do not