The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-30
WOODS
SHOW INCREASE
IN PRICES
As High as 26 Cents Paid for
Quarter Blood Stock This
Week, While Fine and Me
dunn Reaches FL Cents.

prstan. Dec. 8O-The demand for
territory woods seems 60 have been a
little more keen this week. CoHsid-
ering the sale 81 some two million
pounds or more oi territories. which
presumably Included considerable
hnc and nuc medium wool az firm
rates, the ntios cot territory wool
alone would then approximate three
million pounds. Included in the
weeks transfer were some 100000
pounds uf quarter-blood territory.
which is said to have brought 25h
and even 2G cents. An equal quuuti-
IS 81 t~hret-ciRhths Montana is re-
ported az % cents ana 10000 pounds
OF h%aif-blood is reported at 20 cents
also.
Fine and fine medium territory
I clothing won't has brought % cents
again this week and IN addition 90
the considerable quantity involved in
the large sale noted above another
sale ot 100. 600 pounds Is reported.
which means a clean cost OF about
90 90 Us cents. a moderate quantity
Of fine Wyoming sold last week az
Is cents Is understood Go ave been
rcsold this week at 1sh cents.
II would seem nj the ome as "
the sky were the limit FOR prices
on woods suitable Tor army purposes
Tho world over. medium ana low
woods are showing remarkable
| strength, Especially has this been
y true IL Sodth AmSfftd DURING the
past week and To a lesser extent IN
this country and m New Zealand
Fine wools seem 60 Dee better
thought q and fractional advances
are reported for occasional lots.
IN the local market y superb have
been kecnly sought this week u
prices are higher again Further
sales 81 medium staple woods are also
reported "a slight advance The de-
mand for these woods is said go Dee
wholly duo 60 army contracts held by
the various mills \ considerable
! humber " wooden mills arc now
known 10 ave contracts % furnish
cloth for the allied forces and u is
inquest louahly true thar more orders
haYe been recently placed ~ Be- still
"a moot question however. uH O. tho
extent of these orders.
Otherwise thar on ccouu - army
contracts the domestic mills are
Z NWNNAg fNNANNfA anu MWMNW MAANAH
be a%Yeragiug over 90 per cent of ma-
I chlnery In operation were IL not for
these orders. The yarn %suinncrs and
top-makcrs ere finding busiuess slow
too. except for "a good demand Tor
the medium and Tow stocks
Tho knitters appear 20 he very well
occupied sfii. and the WaF~et Tor
substitutes has within the last week
or two been given q fresh boom hy
the further placing Of considerable
orders involving shpddies and wastes.
The usual speculation AS Go che
quantity OF wool atbl Tor sale hy deal
era m rho local market and through
out the country lbs now being inuuiEed
len. with estimates varying anywhere
from fifteen to nfty million pounds of
an kinds ~ domestic wool. % b gen
| orally conceded that supplies of tnr-
oign wool are eNircmcls small some
/ Observers are OF the opinion that the
unsoid stocks in doalors' hands this
year viii bo found 90 be- much small
er shan lasi year. although u h. be-
ileyed hat The stock OF uumunufac-
tured wool in manufacturers hands
3 larger than % was IL year ago, SO
that on the whole the situntiou ia not
materially different from what b. was
last year, although stocks are GO any
thing Emaiie- through the country us
"a whole and la CeEs.da a. welt
There seems 60 be ri"e"st "a de.ef
mination Ia the trade 10 forgct that
such a thing as n Bfitish wool EN-
barge exists, although of course no
one 81 rc6lly refusing to acknowledge
tho possibilities Of iis being modified
al any moment. The consensus %
opinion Is. however. that nothing VII
happen To- his direction ln the near
future,