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Show 1V00I,. H,icli & lllllmiiii Handle Over Half a million Pound litis Heaaon. Fred Hillman, of the local wool Grm of Rich & Hillmwn, saya they have done a satisfactory business I so far this year. The wool pulling at the tannery has ceased for the present, but thousands of pelts have been handled there this summer. sum-mer. The wool taken from them found remunerative markets. The firm has already handled 500,000 pounds of wool. This wool varied in value from live to nine cents. There was a surprising difference in the quality of wool offered by the various growers. Those who take pains to grade their sheep up realize the top prices, while thone I who let their stock run down reap bottom prices. This half million pounds of wool was mostly shipped east on consignment. It was probably prob-ably worth $-10,000, or on an average aver-age of eight cents per pound. |