Salt Lake Herald | 1898-08-18 | Page 6 | Boston Wool Market

Boston Wool Market Boston Aug 17The American Wool and Cotton Reporter will say tomorrow of the wool trade Taking the market a a whole the situation Is I very quiet Everything Ev-erything now depends on the goods market mar-ket which still fails to respond to expectations ex-pectations The sales this week may be considered surprisingly large in view of the talk of dull business which has been heard on every side As a matter of fact however the total has been materially ma-terially enhanced by a few large transactions trans-actions In voint of numbers the sales seem to be increasing from week to week but the fragmentary character ot thasales Is also apparent The sales of the week in Boston Bos-ton amount to 2025000 pounds domestic and 541000 pounds foreign making a total of 2565000 agaInst a total of 3339000 for the previous week and a total of 10 720000 for the corresponding week last year Sales since Jan 1 ISIS amount to 74393510 pounds against 237187600 pounds at this time last year