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Show consequently buyer ate only looking out f..r their pressing needs.-UoiU il ttkly Advertiser Button Wool M:irket The sales lor the week comprise J.J33 500 lbs of domestic Heece and pulled pull-ed aii(16yj,ioo lbs uf foreign, making the week's transactions foot up 2.9155.10 lbs, against 2x5 2,000 lbs for the previous prev-ious week, and 2,405,600 lbs d .mestic and 402,009 lbs loreign for the corresponding corres-ponding week last veal. The wool matket shows vety little life this week, although the sales foot up quite fair. The fact that Ihe figure aie show.ng up so well is accounted lor from the fact that they include considerable consid-erable wool that sold previously and wi not leported before The general gener-al position of the maiket is easier than 'ast week, and a buver could get better term in most any kind of wool. The trouble is that theie is little disposition shown to buy, as manufacturers are not disposed to pile up wool until ll-.ey can get orders for their goods. There is no doubt but the goods market is in an unsatisfactory un-satisfactory state, and repoits from many sections state that the mills w.ll be f rced to stop, if goods buyers hold bac' much longer. A year ago the go. ds were selling and manulcturers wete anxious to cover with the raw ma-t ma-t rial. The failure ol the Riveisidc anils, etc,, put a stop to that boom, and the b dance of the year was diagnv. A gel eral feeling prevails now not to be c ujht wit', a high-priced wool, aud |