| Show UTAH WOOLS EARLY SOLD One Consignment Being Held at Stiff Figures 1 Advices received from the chief wool markets are to the effect that there remain re-main but few unsold consignments in storage sto-rage there and those are comparatively small At Philadelphia one nervy Utah grower is holding a 130000pound fine medium lot for a anticipated advance He has notified the commission house in whose warehouse the wool is held not to sell unless at an advance of not less than 1 cent on present prices which are rang ing from 9 cents to 10V cents The first 3S95 wools have reached the eastern markets They were from Cali fornia and made a 230000pound consignment I consign-ment Holders will sell at 8 cents I is anticipated that the next spring wools tot to-t t reach market will go from Wyoming and should get there shortly after the middle of Vpril Utah will probably commence shipping about the sam time I is now predicted by experienced buyers that considerably con-siderably higher prices will be paid for the early wools According to the report of the JJnlted States department of JnUed number of sheep In our countr on January janu-ary 1 15 amounted to 422944 and theIr yflue G6G7 against 45O4Sl7 ShEfi valued at SS91S6110 on January 1 I 1S94 writes Charles J Webb Co of 8 Philadelphia This heavy decline has t > rcjght wools down to a price which has for several months placed them on a level with competing foreign stocks and we therefore do not have to report any further decline from values quoted in ay our last circular Mianuiacturers are using large quan titles of foreign wools and the finer fner grades of territory and states are forced into sharp competition with Australian South American Montevideo and Cape wools In medium quarter and common stocks we more than hold our own and domestic wools are preferred to foreign and even command slightly higher prices I Stocks of wool are very Ugh and a good k demand exists for all grades Large I sales of scoured fales and pulled wools are be v ing made Strck that are moving are going into immediate use and the d < nand certainly shows that the users are all going to make goods for their home mar kets and not bo forced to abandon ma the field to their foreign competitors |
