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Show WOOL FIRMER M PfilCESAWHrDOVN, ' SAYS BOSTON REPORT Easterners Declare Growers Grow-ers More Willing to Sell . Than Last Year. BOSTON. With th new wool clip t-in t-in horn In mitrn ttatas at tb rmt ot um k,OO0.CH io I, ooo, ooo pounds par dy, Boston deftlern hv lrily taken on p proximately eO.OOO.AOO to 70.600,000 pounds, and, buyers are picking up big rlipa vry day. says ths Boston Nsws Burau. This rsprassnts about two-thirds of tha territory nip, and about ons-fi(th th total clip of ths country. Boston usually usu-ally handle, about 200,1)00,000 pounds of domestic wools annually. Utah. Montana and other territory wools ars beclnnlnf to arrive in quantity. Buyers are taking the new wools with rathr more confidence than three or four woeks ao It had earlier been anticipated anticipat-ed that murh wool would this year corns east on consianmenl. It will be rsoailed that after the hinh prices received by the growers two years ago, nearly SO per cent ntirher than they are at present, growers last year looked on prices as being unreasonably un-reasonably low, and sent a large percentage per-centage of their wool east on consignment. consign-ment. So much wool was sent east In this way that Boston wool dealers for the time being reverted to the position nf being n reality commission merchants for the western growers, a position they "tisv not previously occupied. In fact, for many yars pasti Th experience. Last year, however, was not altogether an encouraging nne for ths growers, for when results were figured up it was generally found that the growers grow-ers would have been In pocket had they sold their wools at home to the eastern buyers This year, therefore, with mills opersting on short time, perhaps not aver 60 per cent of capacity, and the tariff agitation making for much uncertainty, growers are evincing, a greater deal re to pari with their wools than last year. Of course, prices look low as compared with thou of some previous years. They are Indeed close to cost of production. In Boston prices of wools today are some s to 10 per cent below those at the same period of last year. Ohio fine washed delaine Is today quoted at tO cents per pound as against S4 cents a vear ago, and 41 cents two years ago., Montana one-half blood at n cents today, to-day, compare with 34 cents a vear ago, and 2ft centa two years ago. Other wools range in about the same order over ths past two or three years. The following tabulation shows prices of leading grades of wool as compared with one and two vear ago, prices being be-ing as of about June 1: llf m lMt Ohio fine washed delaine.. 30 U 41 Ohio XX washed 2S 32 S7 Ohio unwashed detain ..-24 27 H Montana fine staple 20 2S V Montana one-hair blood .1 24 29 Ohio one-quarter blood H 37 34 |