Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-03-11
NO CONTRACTS YET
GIVEN FOR WOOL
Local Growers Waiting
for Higher Prices
Secretary Of the Woolgrowers AS
sociation Predicts Wool Will
Sell for 80 Cents

With not pound OF this season S
wool contracted, sheep owners who
make their headquarters at Mountain
Home are viewing with considerable
optimism the operations of the wool
buyers who are securing contracts
on clips in Montana and Wyoming
and paying in some instances as high
as 81 cents.
Thirty-three cents per pound lis the
mark set for wool to reach this sea
son. The author of this prediction is
none other than S. w. Mcclure, sec
retary of the National Woolgrowers
association and editor of the National
Woolgrower, the organ of the associa-
ton. Mr.. Mcclure, while he repre-
sents the producing end of the indus
try, is in a position to speak with
full knowledge of the situation.
Mr.. Mcclure was at Gooding, his
former home, recently and in discuss
ing the wool situation he stated that
nearly 100000 pounds of Montana
wool had been sold for 81 to 80 cents
and he expected the price to reach 80
cents.
The Woolgrowers of Utah seemed
to be in haste this year to dispose
OF their clips and the report is current
that eastern houses have contracted
for more than 80 per cent of the
clips at prices ranging from 21 to 2S
cents. In Nevada 60 per cent of the
wool has been contracted, while the
growers OF Montana and Wyoming
have let go of but five per cent. In
Idaho Is per cent of the wool has
been contracted.
At Dillon, Mont, according to the
Tribune of that place, a wool clip
was sold lately at 80 cents, and other
smaller clips at 81 cents. VIM. Bern
stein, buyer for an eastern firm OF
fered Harry AndruS of Dillon SO CENTS
for his wool, which was refused, as
Mr. Andrus is confident of receiving
a higher price. Some contracting
has been going on around Billings,
Mont, and it is reported that Smith
Bros. have sold their clip at 27 cents.
Shearing has commenced in Arizon
but growers are demanding 80 cents
for wool that a year ago sold for
"a to 25 cents, and but little contract
ing has been done.
The European war, which has been
the cause of the high price of wool,
shows no signs of cessation, and
even if peace should be concluded
this summer it is almost certain that
the British government would con-
tinue for a time the embargo which
it placed on shipments of wool from
its colonies. In former years Ameri
cam manufacturers imported l25,0OO,-
600 pounds of foreign wool from the
British colonies and South America.
Most of the South American wool
has been bought by German agents
to be held until the war shall end.
After the war is over the central
European powers will likely be heavy
buyers in the markets of the world.
There is every reason, therefore, for
the producers of wool to view the
situation with satisfaction.
Elmore county growers, with 2,0OO,O 900
pounds of wool to sell, seem dis
posed to wait for the time when they
can offer their holdings at the
spring wool sales. Those who have
clean, long staple wool to offer may
confidently expect to receive around
33 cents, while those having woods
of finer texture, these being not 50
much in demand, will secure proper