The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-30

the turn dearer. Holders OF English
woods have now very little to sell and
they are raising prices at every rams
action. After the excitement OF Octo-
Der and November the mohair market
is comparatively quiet. A little bust
ness goes through at recent rates, but
the extreme limit set at Constantine
pie stops any furthe import. Alpaca
is quiet and steady.
Inquiries from the continent for
yarns are fewer in number than last
week, and even the demand for 30s
seems for the present to have exhaust
ed itself. Where orders are placed, how
ever, spinners find it easier to make
their prices, and quotations remain
firm all around. In mohairs there is
not much in the way of new business,
but particulars are coming in freely,
and spinners are fully employed.
Those engaged on the low thick
counts for the American trade can
scarcely deliver fast enough to please
their customers. The, Botany yarn
tradeNis still quiet.
Numerous repeats for the spring
piece trade are coming to hand, and
manufacturers engaged in the bright
goods trade keep all their looms going
to their full capacity"
No BARGAINS in Territory.
Territory wool holds firm. The us
ual year-end bargain sales are not be-
ing held and the bargain hunters
search in vain. The most prominent
deal of the week was a trade involv-
ing half a million pounds of Montana,
running we'll to medium, at around
25c. Small lots of Wyoming, Utah,
etc., have been sold at unchanged
prices. The secured basis of clothing
is 65@67c for fine and 62@63c for
fine medium. According to grade me-
dunn sells on the basis of Coo upward.
Fine selected staple has sold to cost
6Shc clean.
Estimates of the amount of the 1905
clip already contracted are for fully
80, 600, 900 pounds. Some say more
and some less. In Utah and Idaho
from 70 to Is per cent is said to have
been %cornered, with 25 per cent in
Nevada and smaller percentages in
Montana and other states. The Nor
ton clip of Wyoming has been scooped
at 1Sc. There has been something
lcne in Colorado and New Mexico.
Texas, Oregon and California.
Texas woods are practically a thing
Of the past. The clip of 1904, or that
portion of it that comes to Boston,
has passed out of sight, except for
struggling lots of fall that are being
fpeddled out at the same old figures
ruling for some time.
Oregon wool is quiet and firm with
staple quoted in the grease at 21@22c
for good, and clothing at 1S@19c.
Secured values are unchanged. The
market is pretty we'll. cleaned OF sta
pie.
California wool is selling in moder-
ate quantities at previous prices. For
choice northern &c has been paid and
middle county sold at 10000.
Receipts and Shipments.
The receipts at Boston for the week
ending December %, inclusive, were
1,103, 234 pounds domestic and 1885,
S11 pounds foreign, making a total OF
1880, 045 pounds. For the correspond
ing week last year they were 1,616,747
pounds domestic and 1870, 100 pounds
foreign. Total, 3,406,S47 pounds. Up
to and including December % the
years. receipts we're 3O7, 619, sos
pounds, of which 1913, 284, 1O3 pounds
were domestic and 1O9,335,462 pounds
foreign. For the same period in 1903
the receipts were 49,, 101 ,625 pounds
} domestic and 9~3,933,715 pounds for.
eign. Total, 276,O3o,34O pounds.
{ For the week ending December 20,
INCLUSIVE, tue SHIPMENTS were l,4ol, lO1
pounds, as against 5,207 1928 pounds
l for the corresponding week in 1908
! For the week ending December Is
, 1904, the shipments aggregated 6,739,
, 900 pounds. Since December 81, 1903
the total shipments have amounted to
: 254, O68,O 8 pounds, For the same
, period in 1903 they were 1872, 1896, O52
pounds.