East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-21

the warehouse and a half million
more to come all is now In readiness
for the big sales day tomorrow. AS
practically the entire clip of the
county will be placed on sale tomorrow
the event is awaited with interest by
the sheepmen and buyers alike.
The buyers are now here In force
and If the sale is not a success II will
not be for lack of purchasers. The
following Is list Of those in attend
ance, and the houses represented;
Corps OF Buyers Here.
E. Y. Judd, of the firm of the H.
C. Judd & Root company; Edwin ].
Burke, for the same people; Charles
H. Greene, for s. Koshland & Co., Of
San Francisco; Leon Strauss for Frank
B. Findley & Co., Of San Francisco,
William Ellery, member of the firm of
Hallowell, Jones & Donald, Boston;
E. w. Brigham. for Whitman Farms
worth & Thayer, of Boston; s. Frank
Frankenstein, for Hecht, Lehman &
Co., of Boston; George Abbot, for the
Botany Worsted Mills of Passiac, N.
j.; o. Kuhn. for the same firm; NJ.
NJ. Cummings, for Brown & Adams,
of Boston; P. Dufour, A. ]. Parmentier
and George Won Zevern, for the La
fayette Worsted Mills, of woonsocket
r. T.; G. E. L. Sharp, for Luce &
Manning. of Boston; James Russell,
for The palles Securing Mills; and J..
Sheuerman, of San Francisco.
Many Railway Representatives.
In the corps of transportation men
accompanying the buyers are the fol-
lowing: ]. c. Lindsey, of the Illinois
Central; H. ]. Miller, for the Chicago
& Northwestern: B. T. Sweeney, of the
Erie Dispatch; F. Refugee Stalker, for
the Trades Dispatch; Frank Hanke,
for the c., NJ. & st. p, and George
o'Connor, for the Northern Pacific.
During the day the sheepmen have
also been gathering in the city. and
tmorrow practically all the growers OF
the county will be on hand. J. NJ
Keeney, of the Cunningham Sheep &
Land company, arrived this morning
from Shaniko to attend the sale and
has been here today with J. N. Bur.
CESS, manager of the company. ]. z
Smith, of the ]. e. Smith Livestock
company. has also been here today
The combined clips of these two com
panies alone make a third of a millior
pounds.
Hope For Good Prices.
What prices the sales day viii
bring forth remains to be seen. How
ever, there Is a general feeling amont
the growers that good prices will pre-
vail; in spite of the bearish prediction
made by some of the buyers. Their,
Is little stock taken in the rumor tina
the wool buying firms of the countr,
have entered into a combine. Th
following dispatch from Rawlins
wyo., shows there has been a chang
of sentiment there:
; Fear of Combine Gone.
Rawlins, wyo., May 1.-THE shee
shearing season is drawing to a clos
in this section. The Smiley & Dale
pens have closed and the Miller pen
will close this week. The shearers ar
leaving for other parts of the stat
: where shearing is in progress. Buy
4 ers are now busy and all talk OF
combine mas dled out.
Prices are averaging from 2k cent
u to & 3-S cents per pound better Tn
= year than last, and from to cent
better than in 1904. Ten years as
+ the wool that is now bringing from
e to "a cents per pound brought lei
!. than 10 cents, or about the amount
the increase in this years prices ov'
= those Of 1904, and the wool Is M
" much finer now than then.
. The following Is a detailed list
e the wool in the warehouse up to Sa
u urday evening. 1t amounted then
100000 pounds and Manager suthe
land was confident that a millic
would be on hand by Tuesday nooi
Cunningham s. & L. Co., 1o5,33
y Mallahan & Byrne, 1896; Pat Do
,r erty, 22,646; Pedro Bros, 44,36
e. Rugg Bros, 42,133; Charles McBe
al 15,703: J. Connolly 1929; A. Pc
Id rard 22,565; d. L. johnson, 1928
s. A. Knots, 1916: Hunter Bros, II
is 7ss: Donald Ross, 24,952; A. p. Wa
Of ner. 11,093: c. w. Mathews, 27,9S
r. A. II. sunderman, 19,207; Gullifo
lie Bros, 13,494: ]. r. Smith, l.. s. G
Dr. 122,016; T. L. Belts, 34,014; Jol
o. Wynn. 1O,299; M. Edwards 14,4l
to william slusher, ss,647; S. P. GouI
la 1852; Geo. Adams, 5617; Chas. T.
e. s054; A. C. Henderson & Son, 993
F. Dickinson, 14,729; A. A. Cole, SSC