Show WOOL TUATION BETTER Increased Purchases Being Made By Manufacturers PEICES ARE ALSO ADVANCING EIIPROVEMEXT XOT ERRATIC Blfl STEADY AND MARKED mporlntlous ot Foreign Mnnnfnc inred Woolen Goods Not yearly So Heavy ns Calamity Hotrlers Pre dieted Indications Promising foIL fo-IL Good Year for Both the Growers and Consumers of Wool What tlio American Wool and Cotton Reporter Re-porter Says London Wool Sales It is now in order for the calamity homier to take a back seat and give way to the conservative class whoso mission is the public good With the going into effect of the woolen schedule sched-ule of the new tariff act has not cone a flood of foreJgnmado cloth as predicted pre-dicted by the opposition would be th i case but on the other hand the ma ufaoturers of the United States anti greatly increasing their wool purchases pur-chases and as a result the prices of hat product are steadily advancing Xead what the American Wool ant Cotton Reporter of Boston will say this morning Boston Mass Jan 23The Amen lean Wool and Cotton Reporter will say tomorrow of She wood trade Nearly three and a half mrllion pounds of wool have been sold this week There is a visible improvement in breadth of demand An mprove < J feeling is quite manifest Manufa T tuners are taking right along moderate quantities of various tends of wool according to the kind of fabric they are making When one considers that In January 1895 importations of foreign for-eign cloths include three months consignments con-signments delivered in one month and that the bulk of it and description of it thus far > is not such as to confirm the apprehension expressed last fa I concerning the effect of these goods being brought Into competition svlth our domestic manufactures the outlook out-look is most promising Except for fine wools which ore not in excessive supply the demand for domestic continues in about the same degree as in the last quarter of 1891 There has been recently more call for territorial wool than hitherto slur the middle of December Pulled woes have had another good week th price of some grades having mat rially strengthened since last writing Australia has sold well and there ShsoF been Increased inquiries for Sou > i American crossbreeds The sales of the week amount to 2517100 pounds domestic and 782000 pounds of foreign making a total of 3499500 pounds against a total of 2 775000 for the previous week and 2 472500 pounds for the corresponding week last year The sales since January Jan-uary 1 1895 amount to 11588100 pounds against 6267100 pounds a year agoVIlat What Was Done in London London Jam 23There was good activity ac-tivity for all the better merinos and crossbreeds at the wool auction sales today Americans bought freely of good merinos Owing to the postponement of yesterdays yes-terdays sales on account of the snow and fog the series has bean extended one day to February 6 The total number ofbades available for the auction auc-tion is 21500 Offerings today amounted to 12214 of which 1400 were withdrawn with-drawn New South Wales 37S2 bales of scoured Is 3d Queensland 1675 bales scoured 9d to Is greasy 4i4d to 7d Victoria 3143 bales scoured 643 to Is ld greasy 4d to lOd Adelaide 1700 bales scoured lid greasy 4d to 714d 1 Swan River S8 bales greasy 3Y to 7d New Zealand S23 bates scoured Sd to 10fd greasy Gd to 9d Cape of Good Hope amd NZIIJ J 1848 bales scoured SVtd to Is greasy 4d to 6d fa |