OCR Text |
Show WESTERN WOOL AT GOOD PRICES I Boston, Mass., April 2. Wool contracting con-tracting has assumed new life in the west, with the highest prices of the season paid during the past week. Prices are also strong in Boston for both domestic and foreign grades. Shipments continue heavy, indicating that the mills are active. Attention is drawn to the abnormal condition both here and abroad, an anomally difficult to explain, although certain factors are clear, as for instance that foreign mills are busy and wools are high the world over. At present the market shows a scarcity scar-city of desirable clothing wools and hLh prices are being paid for the small lots offering; fine staples territory ter-ritory must bo quoted as high as GO cents for the best lots, the range being be-ing from 58 to CO cents, with the medium me-dium staple wools on relatively as high a basis. Wools have recently been sold at figures that would have been considered absurd five or six months ago. In some cases the advance ad-vance has been as much as 10 cents a scoured pound for wools that liave been carried for months and offered at low prices without finding a customer. cus-tomer. Several hundred deals of Australian Au-stralian and Geolong have been made in a grade previously neglected. First Utah Wool Shipped. The first shipment of the 1914 clip of Utah wool left Cisco last night for Boston. It is consigned to Hollowell, Jones & Donald of Boston by J. R. Edgehill, the company's western agent. The shipment was three cars with a total weight of 125.000 pounds. The price paid for the wool was not given out, other than to say it was a high one. i nn |