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Show BETTER PRICES THAN RSD BEE! EXPECTED Idaho Sheepmen Let Go of 2(0,-000 2(0,-000 Pounds of Wool at 12 5-Sc to 14c Pound. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Ida.. May 2-1. The first Important Im-portant wool sale of the interniounlaln country this year took placo yesterday at Ontario, when 2C0.OOO pound.; of tine quality merino was sold at prices ranging rang-ing from 12Jc to He per pound. The bulk of the wool was purchased !y J. M. Johnson, representing llallowcll, Jones & Donald, n Boston commission house. The principal wool buying houses of Boston were represented in tho bid-dlnc, bid-dlnc, as well as several of tho woolen mills of tho cast. Tho price secured la higher than was expected and s'uepmen are optimistic over the prospect and a probablii rise. Tlie varying prices wore duo to the shrinkage in the wool; 20.000 pounds went at 123 cents. 40,000 pounds at 1H cents. 130,000 pounds at 13J cents and 70.000 pounds at 14 cents. Thero 13 still stored In the warehouse at Ontario 600,000 pounds of wool that was not sold at the prices offered. It is being held for better bet-ter prices, although the prices paid yesterday yes-terday was from li to .1 cents higher than had been expected. Hundreds of thousands thou-sands of pounds are also being held at various other points in tho Intermountaln country, while many commission men of eastern houses are camped hero to buy. |