Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-07-17
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
IN BOSTON WOOL MARKET

Boston, Mass, july l6.-OutWardly
the market is not active, but under the
surface there is considerable doing.
Some large sales Of wool to arrive, as
we'll as of spot woods, have been made.
| If all the wool that has been sold 90
arrive subject to approval, the actual
sale of which will not be divulged un-
| til later. We're included in the staten cIi
of sales the aggregate for the week
would unquestionably be quite large,
comments the Wool and Cotton Re-
porter, There is a good general in
quiry for wool and prices are firm on
all kinds of good domestic stock,
worsted goods in particular.
Manufacturers Good Buyers.
The woods which have been In best
demand and which have been sold tho
most freely are delaine feeces, half
blood unwashed and territory woods
grading from a quarter blood to fine.
! The manufacturers who have been
buyers of these woods are the max
ers of mems wear worsted and ladies'
dress goods, one prominent Rhode Is
and manufacturer Of wOrsteds operat-
! ing freely, as well as two large man-
ufacturers of dress goods One we'll
known manufacturer of dress goods IN
New England has been operating quite
freely at the same time In the state of
ner of worsted yarns,
VIII Want Staple Wool.
This is undoubtedly going to be q
great year for staple woods and good
woods are likely to move rapidly, as the
territorial clip, as before pointed out,
will not turn out as large a percentage
of staple this year as last. The Mon
tana clip Is showing as much staple
as last year, but occasionally II shows
tenderness, owing to variable weather
conditions, but the abundant rains
have In many sections of the state
washed the woods so clean that they
are lighter than last year and will
shrink on the average at least 3 per
cent less, In some instances the per-
centage OF shrinkage being placed at
even per cent less. While good sta
pie woods are likely to be excellent sell
lers during the season, good fine cloth
Ing woods bid fair TO sell well also, but
secured woods of medium and low
grade are still slow and in fair sup
ply.
Montana Clips Move Rapidly.
Wool In Montana Is moving rapidly
mad buyers are paying 2O@2S hc.
Prices there. in fact, are reported, AZ
5 per cent higher than they were two
weeks ago and the buying the past
and manufacturers The woods have
been sold so freely at different points
that so far no public sales have been
held. The clip Is estimated al about
$4,000, 900 pounds. and It is claimed
about 20,000,000 pounds have geen dis
posed Of. One large sale consisted Of
the Fort Benton aggregation. amount
ing to about 100000 pounds, which
was taken by-a large Boston house at
22Mc, although earlier I'm the year
equally az good woods were bought, It
Is claimed at 21c.
Little Ohio New Wool Left.
While the woOls IN the territories
are bringing higher prices than dealers
expected 10 pay at one time. In the
iieeee wool sections prices also show a
hardening tendency, In Ohio the new
wools are pretty largely out Of farm
ers' hands and second hand lots are
priced very high. The lowest
price now asked for washed woods Is
abe. while FOR hne unwashed 27c Il
asked and for medium unwashed 30c.
large Rhode Island dress goods mill
Il reported as paying as high as s7c
IN Ohio for washed wool running well
Of course TO delaine.
Foreign Clips less Figure.
Foreign woods have cut but little
figure IN the business OF the past week.
or mcrino woola there are but few
here and Il would be impossible to
put through large business OF
crossbredi. except the finer woods.
there II a fair supply. but no great
quantity There has been some BUSH
ness doing, but Il has been only IN