Show WOOL MARKET ACTIVE 1 The scarcity of fine fino wool In Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton market and the need of mills for tor such raw material for the coming lightweight season keeps up buying buying buy buy- ing activity wherever ane wools can be secured but buyers seek to keep their buying limits below a parity with the probable rates of the new tariff Territory wool Is arriving here In volume but little grading has yet been done although mills mills' aren ot of taking over the new clip cUp In original bags as freely as The week has seen much purchasing ing in Wyoming at prices heretofore heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore established also als in Montana at prices as high as are deemed safe sare At Ata a a Texas sale this week pounds were offered and and 70 70 withdrawn Buyers offered prices that that- mean a clean cost f for r rw w wool ol landed in Bo Boston ton ot of to I Sales were were made at to 49 hc c for the twelve months and to for French combing These prices mean to clean In Boston for the former ana I Ito to for tor the French combing Twelvemonths wool Is hardly quotable quotable quotable quota quota- ble here tho though gh some recent purchases purchases purchases pur pur- chases have been turned over to 10 manufacturers Eight months wool has sold here to clean So little graded territory is offered here that quotations are guesses Good fine and fine medium ought tobe tobe to W be worth to clean good French combing to io fine and fin fine medium clothing cloth cloth- cloth clothing ing 11 to 11 half-blood half staple to three eights three eights I blood to quarter blood blood er-blood to SOc Fine fleeces retain retain last week quotations Medium combine fleeces are higher Fine unwashed clothing Is quoted at itt t to 47 an ant quarter-blood quarter combing at ct tr tc Montevideo are reporter reported sold in bond at about clean for wool shrinking hig 32 per cent Further transfers of Australian and South American wools in bond ar are report ed In St. St Louis dealers are reported paying for tor good mixed medium clips cUps and to the farmer In Missouri Missouri Mis 1 growers who generally consign consigned ed or pooled their wool last year are this this year selling direct to deal deal- ers Chicago and St. St Louis dealer have been especially active In Illinois and Iowa and are reported to have han secured big blocks of ot wool Eastern Eastern Eastern East East- ern buyers have been most active lr Ir Ohio Michigan and Indiana Ir Boston fleeces have been the bes' bes sellers this week Ohio wool haf has hassold sold old in big lots at for tor fine unwashed un un- unwashed washed delaine for half blood and to for three eights blood A proportion large large proportion of the wool In bond is said to have been transferred ed to manufacturers' manufacturers account In free Cree wools the bulk of ot the current current cur cur- I rent movement Is in South American second clip and lambs lamb's wool Considerable Considerable Con Con- sl activity is noted in theLast the tup Last East India wools One importer I le If reported to have pound Bradford tops on m the ocean them at prices below what similar tops can be combed for tor from domestic domes domes- tic wool because of ot the discrimination I tion lion against greasy wool in the I emergency tariff |