Show Wool Prices Up lb Seen By the time the first sealed bid sale is held May 25 it is anticipated that per pound will be offered for clean origin origin- original al bag range clips This statement was made to The VernAl Express Monday by Larry Woods Cross wool buyer PRICES nt at present have risen to from to per pound About 25 percent of the range wool in the Uintah Basin and the Meeker Craig area has been sold at net grease prices range from 60 cent to 64 cents Mr said that wool wool- growers should get not less than 10 cents to 12 cents per grease pound more than they received in 1965 assuming the wool is in the same condition and of the same quality lie He listed the dean clean price mar mar- market ket and compared it with the previous year THE FOLLOWING port per clean pound shows the quality the 1966 price and the 1965 price fine 11 SA According to the Na National onal Wool Growers magazine 11 per per- percent cent of the percent wool products market previously lost to synthetics was recovered in 1965 There was 7 percent less total wool Inventory at Jan 1 1966 than in January 1965 The article stated that in 1964 and the previous nine years the theU theU U S manufactured about 20 million suits In 1965 22 million suits were made It was estimated that 25 mil lion suits will be made in 1966 plus extensive military orders due to the Vietnam war |