, 1922-05-11
WOOL PRICES
this WEEK
MANY SALES AT SLIGHTLY AB0lE LAST
WEEKS TOP PRICE. Wealth.
Err STOPS SHEARING

Whatever change in the wool situa-
ton. with the single exception of the
weather. since last week has been dis
tinctly favorable to the woOlgrowers
and has v~indicated the wool prophets
who have maintained for the past
three months hat the worst was
over and that this years price level
would continue to rise and remain
firm with a continued upward trend
until the 1922 clip had been alb
sorbed.
The top OF the market, as noted in
last weeks issue of The Republican,
was reached by the sale Of the Pine
Grove clip at 35 cents. Hardly had
the ink dried on this announcement
when a sale at A-cent advance over
time there has been a steady advance
accompanied by a stronger feeling on
the part Of all interests concerned.
Rawlins hotel Hobbies swarm with
eastern wool buyers, who are in
hourly touch with Boston and other
wool centers. ready to enter into
competitive bidding on any clip
which Is known to be about ready for
the market. A representative of the
National Wool Warehouse & Storage
Co., of Chicago. F. C. Palmer, has
also been on the ground during the
week.
Rawlins Sales
The highest price recorded as The
Republican zoe to press is hat of
the 0. P. Olsen Sheep Company.
which was sold yesterday for 81
cents. This clip will aggregate
about 41.O00 pounds II was bought
by a Boston house. This transaction
closed a week of spirited bidding and
was only closed late in the day. 9th
err sales reported are. the Kindt
Sheep Co.. at 35k; the Blake Sheep
Co. at 35A the Eureka Sheep Co.,
at So; and the Osborn Livestock Co.
at SO.
Four clips which were shorn at
Wamsutter were offered for sale UNI
der sealed bids and quite a number
of Eastern buyers examined the
wool and submitted figures. with the
following resulting sales: Rambler
Sheep Co.. 36c; Stratton Sheep Co.,
36c; Continental Sheep Co.. 36Ac.
and the Carbon County Sheep & Cat
tie Co., $3.50. Buyers will have an
opportunity to bid on the Andy Nell
son & Co. clip at Walcott. amount
ing to about $4,000 pounds, and the
Larson & Smiley clip at Ferris. about
$1,000 pounds, is reported as about
ready for the market.
Shearing Halted
Sunday was the last day OF unin-
terrupted shearing in Carbon county
pens, due to an unfavorable change
in the weather. Rain began to fall
Monday and has continued at inter-
walls ever since, with the exception Of
the time the rain turned to snow. A
heavy snowstorm. accompanied by
wind and a lowered temperature con-
tinued all day yesterday with no sign
Of abating.
Not only will this upset all shear
ing calculations but Is likely to prove
disastrous to the young lambs who
are beginning to arrive in some OF
the flocks and will continue from
now on to accupy the attention Of
sheepmen to the exclusion of all else
for about two weeks. Unless there
Is more moderate weather within the
next few days there will be a consid-
cradle loss from young lambs. who
cannot survive a storm like the pres
emit one. especially II the thermom-
eter hovers about the freezing point.
Flockmasters are to an extent con-
so1ed by the fact that the snow which
has fallen in the last 48 hours,
which Is so disastrous to shorn
sheep and newborn lambs. will
prove Of Unreasonable benefit to the
range, which has been drying up ap-
probably since the last rains, u to
the winds which have blown steadily.