, 1908-04-24
BUYERS ARE
NOT HAPPY
BOSTON WOOL MEN NOT PLEAS.
ED WITH CONDITIONS EXIST
ING IN WEST AT PRESENT
Probability Of Storage at Omaha Be-
ina Taken Into Consideration and
Buyers From Massachusetts Not
Hopeful Of outcome-Significant
Telegram Forwarded.

Trouble is anticipated by the Bos-
ton wool buyers as a result of the de-
termination of western growers to
hold for prices by storing III Omaha,
says the Omaha Bee. About the c.
Establishment of the market in Omaha
the whole situation will turn according
to the growers.
To the New York Commercial the
Boston correspondent sent the follow
ing dispatch:
Boston buyers will buy tic choice
clips such as they have been handling
year after year They know waeie
the market can be found as certain
| mills look to them TO supply certain
Fgrades of wool. A fair price Will be
Hpaid for such clips and the growers
are likely to come to terms as the man
ufacturers will do very little Oh no
| competitive bidding and the bulk Of
the ordinary clips will be consigned
unless the growers care to hold on
and pay the carrying cost"
But the growers of Wyoming, Wet
ern Nebraska, Colorado and South
Dakota dc intend to hold on and pay
the carrying costs" The carrying
will be about 5 cents per hundred
pounds per month or six-tenths of i
cent per pound per annum.
Boston Buyers Coming West.
This rate of carrying in the Omaha
warehouse Is insignificant with TIE
prices which will be secured by tee
| growers when they sell to competitive
buyers and are enabled to sell at any
time instead of being compelled to sell
to the representatives of the manu-
facturers at shearing season, often on
the ranges.
Just now representatives Of Boston
wool houses are starting for the wool
growing sections Of the west and dis
patches from Boston say Sin greater
number than eve before"
Boston Is Uneasy.
That the Bostonians are uneasy
about the situation is shown from the
following dispatch which refers to the
buying of the wool in the coming
shearing season by the representa-
tives:
"A great variety of opinions are held
as to the outcome of their negotiations.
Reports as to the views of growers are
varied. Those in Montana are said to
be in a reasonable frame of mind. In
other sections, particularly Utah and
wyoming, more or less of a determine
ton to hold for a price is reported. AS
most of the early Arizona woods were
consigned to this market and have
sold very well, this process of dispos-
ing of the new clip may become con-
tagious.
Nevada Growers c%onsiening.
Nevada are said to be al
ready consigning new clips on advance
of s to 10 cents a pound, and some
sales of Nevada woods are reported to
San Francisco parties at 10 cents or
thereabout. At that figure it Is said
the woods could be landed here at a
secured cost of so cents. Utah and
Wyoming growers are opposed to the
consignment method of marketing.
Idaho growers are said to be asking 16
to IS cents for their clips, while Texas
are not inclined to accept
early offers for their holdings. In the
Red Bluff section, growers are said to
be asking 20 cents while the general
sentiment in California is that a re-
duction Of from Is to 20 per cent from
last years prices is all the producer
ought to be asked to accept. Shearing
is now well along in all southern Cali
fornia, and in the Sacramento valley,
and some of the wool is being consign-
ed. In oregon shearing will nor begin
much before the first of May"