The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-24
Little Doing IN Secured Woods, and
Not Much In Territory Boston Com,
msrcia' Bulletins Report Shows
Universal Dizziness.

goods. The heavyweight season is
making slow progress toward activity,
buyers acting very conservatively and
doing a good deal of shopping. While
later than usual it is not exceptional
for manufacturers to express the with
that they had postponed the opening
Of the heavyweight season still fur
Their, in the hope that clothfers and
jobbers would later be more favorably
disposed to place contracts.
Under these circumstances 1t Is not
surprising that business in wool is
slow, and that the volume Of sales is
small. Consumers will not anticipate
their wants, and even the compare
lively low prices that prevail In GER
tain quarters do rot tempt them to
abandon their waiting attitude.
The large mills are now well
covered, as far as present require
ments are concerned, and the smaller
ones will not bur till they are forced
to which will be when they have re-
ceived orders for goods and know the
quantity and kind Of wool required to
fill them.
Good Woods Steady.
The market on the whole is steady
and for good woods, particularly
staple, the supply of which Is small,
the prices of last week and Of several
previous weeks can be obtained. In
cluded in the weeks business are
small sales Of fine staple n the
secured basis Of zoe, and this is about;
as low as sellers will go. Choice fine
secured sold at zoe. and had to be
promptly shipped. Fine delaine,
though not in specially good demand
just now, Is held with confidence at
38c for washed and Sic for unwashed,
so limited are the offerings. A sale Of
extra choice Ohio Xxx has been made
at CSC.
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These prices show that the woods
mentioned have not weakened much 4
any. On the other hand clothing ter
ritory woods favor buyers, and are
generally easy In price. though even
in this department the opinion is ex-
pressed that prices have touched bot
tom, and that any revival. in the de
mand will place them on a steady
basis. Low woods are offered at a
great variety Of prices, but their very
cheapness is in a way their strength,
for they are attracting q good deal OF
interest, more than during the pre-
vious two months, and manufacturers
are looking ~favorably upon them as
material out Of which a cheap and
salable fabric can be made.
Territory Wool.
The market Is still quiet with most
reported transactions In small lots OF
10000 to $4,000 pounds each, the only
exception being q round lot OF 100000.
pounds, understood to have been sold
to a large mill by a seller who wished.
to clean up the pile. The terms n
kept private, but they certainly call
for no higher prices. The tone Of the
market is steady for staple woods,
which cannot be bought mucn less
than zoe secured for fine. and 65c for
half blood. Fine and half blood staple
together have sold at IS IL in the
grease, a second basis Of 20 to 72c be-
ing reported, and about 10000 pounds
OF half blood straight at 26c and q
little less, the secured cost being
placed at Csc.
A fair amount Of medium clothing
wool sold at "a to &c, the secured
basis ranging from IS to soc and a few
hundred thousand pounds Of fine and
fine medium clothing have been taken
up in small individual quantities at q
wide range Of prlces,sas to quality,
from II to &c. The secured basis OF
fine is 663 to Csc and OF tine medium
around SO cents.
Secured woods.
Choice hne secured has been sold at
zoe but the figure is extreme under
present conditions Of the market.