Show Buying Activity in Wool Market The scarcity searcH of or fino tutu wool in Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton market and mal the tIle need of mills fo for lor such raw material for the tIle coming lightweight seas season n keeps up buying buying buying buy buy- ing activity wherever one ne wools can be secured but buyers buers seek to keep their buying limits below v a parity with the probable rates of tl the e new tariff Territory wool is arriving here in volume volume le but little fttIe grading has yet et been done although mills area ot of taking over the new clip In original bags as freel freely as The week has seen much purchasing ing in Wyoming at prices heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore established also in n Montana at prices as high as are deemed safe At a l Texas sale this week weel pounds were offered and 70 0 00 withdrawn Buyers Buers offered prices that mean a clean cost for wool landed in Boston of to Sales were made at to 49 c for the hv twelve ive months and to for French c combing coaching These prices mean to clean In baton for the former ana to for Cor the French combing g. g Twelvemonths wool is hardly quotable quotable quotable quota quota- ble here though some recent purchases purchases purchases pur pur- chases have been turned over to toI I manufacturers Eight months wool has sold here to clean I So little graded territory is offered here that quotations are guesses Good fine and flue fine medium ought to tobe tobe tobe be worth to clean good French combing to fine and fine flue medium clothing cloth cloth- ing to half-blood half staple stalle to three eights blood to quarter blood to SOc The middle west Is la the scene 01 of great buying activity In Ohio growers are getting SOc to for tor torfine fine and to uc for tor medium In Michigan go good d mixed clips have bave been bought at to Uc in rn western Pennsylvania buyers are offering for good clips In St St. Louis dealers are reported paying for good mixed medium clips and to the farmer In Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- so ri growers who generally consigned consign consign- I I ed or pooled their wool last year ear are this year ear selling direct to deal deal- ers Chicago ago and St St. Louis dealers have haye been especially active In Illinois and Iowa and aud are reported to have secured big blocks of wool Eastern Eastern Eastern East East- ern buyers have ha been most active In III Ohio Michigan and Indiana la In Boston fleeces have been the best beat bestsellers bestsellers sellers this week Ohio wool has hassold hassold sold ol In big lots at for tor fine unwashed unwashed un un- washed delaine for half blood and to for three-eights- three blood 1 Flue Fine fleeces retain last weeks week's quotations Medium combI combing combine fleeces are arc higher Fine unwashed clothing is quoted at to 47 47 and ana quarter-blood quarter combing at to Montevideo are reported sold in bond at about clean for wool shrinking 32 per ver cent Further transfers of at Australian and South American wools In bond are reported report report- ed A large proportion of the tIle wool In la labond bond is said to have been Deen transferred ed to manufacturers manufacturers' account In free wools the bulk of the curent current current cur- cur rent ent movement is In South American second clip and lambs lamb's wool Considerable Con Con- activity is noted in the East India wools One importer ia Is s reported to have pounds Bradford tops on the ocean holding them hem at prices below what similar tops ops can call be combed fur tor or tram from domestic domes domes- tic lic wool because of the discrimination tion against greasy wool in th ties the emergency tariff n a |