The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-07-24
EXCELLENT WOOL
has QUAY COUNTY
Comes in This Year With
Advance in Price
and Quality.
GOOD LOCAL MARKET
Is Recognized in Eastern
Markets as Among
the Finest.

With slight increase In quality and
q larger incirnsc In price and quantity
the local wool market opened this
week although I, Is two weeks later
than Il opened last year and the year
before No wool TO speak o. was
hrouph, to Tucumcari before this week
hut since Monday stream Of large
wagons has been making It's way to
the platforms Of Gross, Kelly 4 Co..
the local wool dealers.
Five hundred sacks Of wool have
been received in rucumcari this week.
which is SET against four hundred and
twenty-five received a, this date last
year aud this sounds even better when
one considers that the wool commenc
ed coming IN two weeks earlier last
year than Il did this.
The fact that the sheep men held of
little this wear is that they hoped 10
get better prices, which resulted as
they hoped since wool s now valued
ai sixteen. eighteen and nineteen cent?
a pound, which Is an increase OF from
three to FIVE cents over last year.
Local wool always commands a good
prize, however, and the wool raised
in this section Of New Mexico IL con.
sidered the best In the country with
the possible exception Of that grown
in the Roswell country, where wool Is
bringing twenty one cents at present.
Quay county wool is known all over
the eastern markets, and Philadelphia
consignees are already beginning TO
squabble over the shipments that will
he made from here this summer. The
wool business promises TO be the best
this year that IL has been since the
sheep man first began TO give way be.
fore the plow share Of the agricultur.
list, who came TO prove that Quay
county could grow other good things
than wool, and has demonstrated that
the wealth of the county lies not only
in wool but In varieties.
The wool crop generally continues
10 tOUif IN uutn Nut tatttk R8At Va
September and II this is the case this
year, az is predicted by the wool deal
ers, the out put will be one Of the
largest in the history Of the county.
OF all the wool delivered in Tueum-
carl this week the most was brought
in by Lorenzo Marines. Others bring
ing in large quantities are N. Tafoya,
Lorenzo Otero, A. Dominges, r. BFito,
Vicente otero, Marcus Mestos and ".
I Mestos Those who have large wool
clippings this year still unsold are
Juan Sanchez and Sons, The Garcia
Brothers and other prominent wool
men.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature
Of the local wool clip this year is that
II is vast improvement over any
preceding year This is true every
, year nut not to such an extent as at
present. This Is due TO the introdue.
tion Of better bucks and the advance.
ment Of scientific means OF caring for
the sheep and handling the wool.
: The wool business in Quay county
A can never be wiped out as In the pre-
| diction OF some. Quay county is "a
i. famous for wool as for any other pro
i duet aud wool dealers win never per
J. nit the agriculturist TO annihilate Il
The two industries are being fairly
well balanced at present, and whil'
[, the wool will never again be supreme
here ii will always be recognized ~
. one Of Quay eonnty's sources oi
wealth.