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Show H OOVERNMBNT WOOL SALES H SAID TO DE SUCCESSFUL H P. K. Marshall, secretary of the M N'attenal Woolgrotws association, H last Saturday had a report from H IlostoH, Mass., of the Kovemment H wool sales there. "Today's iiovern- H incut wool auction was one of the H beat yet held," it says. "Every lot H was sold, eomuarinK favorably with the sales of Australian merinos for H Ike navy department. The war de- H partment had a sale of territory H wool last year that showed a clean H bill. Otherwise today must stand as H a record, especially for mixed lot of H the carpet wool grades. Prices were H lew, markins; a reduction in the re- H serve limits sliiec the Kovembcr sale. H At that time only 20 tier cent of the H offerinRt were sold, while at the Oc- H tober sales, which were call! Iilylily H successful, the results were far Ue- H 1 low those. H 'Today's offerlnRs of territory wool H were eenflnetl to black and ejray quar- H ter blood and ihree-eiKhths blood H prices. The sale was distinctly a car- H pet mill proposition, the bulk of the H IwylH; cmiilnK from Philadelphia, H I 'a, carpel mills. The comelack H from the November failure 1 attribut- M ed lo the Kenerally halter fcellnif in H Eastern wool markets, and the fact H that most woolmen and manufac- H Hirers believe that bottom ha been H reached. I'ullcd wool (low grade) M sold at 9Vt cents; South American H comblnff at nine to twenty-three. H South American cardlnK at eiRht to H alxtMH, and pulled wools (better H Hradf) at twelve to 3to cents. H The success of this sale assures an- H other sal in January, according to H the officials In charge." 14 |