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Show JERICHO WOOL BIDS REJECTED AT MOTS Other Utah ' Clips Have Sold for 42 and 43 Cent This Season; Many Offers Of-fers ; at Fountain Green Bids, tha hl(hst of which was forty and three-elahlhe cents a pound, were rejected by the selling committee of the famous Jericho wool rllii at the annual asle held at fountain Green, rteh. Monday. It became known hers Tuesdsy. The clip Includes about SiO.svS pounds of wool and Is customarily the price Indicator for sll territorial wools. ' Pun sldn sbls ftrteeeee w as at tached to tha ssle scheduled , for Monday and many wool buyers from tha Kast went to Fountain Ureen to examine the condition of the wool and put In a bid for It. The lowest bid offered Mondsy waa thirty-sight and ans-hslf csnts. . It Is certsln fhst the selling committee com-mittee of the Jericho wool pool will not sell the famous clip for as low aa thirty-eight or nine cents, according; ac-cording; to Information received from wool circles Tuesdsy. The prlca of forty-two and forty-three cents has already been paid by Bos-toa Bos-toa houses for several Jarge ellpe In Uinta basin country and It Is doubtful If the Jericho ollp will sell under that figure. It Is said. John T. Caino III, of the Utah Agricultural callege sstenslon division, di-vision, arrived In bait lake Tuesday Tues-day from the t'lnta bssln and stst-ed stst-ed that the John Davis clip, of ths basin's finest and beet grade, waa sold for forty-throe cents. Ths movement of wool esst Is dull, according to railroad officials hsrs. They stats' that Wool Is now racked high along the rosds through eoutherti Utah . awaiting sale and shipment. Information given by wool buyers here la that there Is not a big enough demand for wool to create a market at present. |