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Show (ELKO COUNTY CLIP ! NEAK HALF MILLION ELKO, N'ev., April 2S The wool i season for Elko county is about over, with sales to date totaling more than 1. Son, noo pounda Nearly 100.000 pounds of the clip remain which. hne not befii contracted for or soid .Much of the wool has been sold . during the last two days, more thn I 90.000 fleeces havinc been contracted to Boston and Pacific coast buyers this week. Sales early In he season were made I at as low as Jfi 1-2 cents, Harry Dunn. I representing Koshland v Co. of bo--ton, paying that price tor one of the largo early clips. This week's sales have ranged from 30 to 31 1-2 cents. Ed Btaunton of Staunton Brothers, I San Francisco, purchased the largest quantity yesterday when he took 276,000 pounds, Harry bunn pur- biseri 200,000 pounds; George Hawks, of Adam & Leland 4. pounds, and Frank Rickey of EiS-man EiS-man brothers. 90,000 pounds The excellent weather of the last 10 days has Increased shearing operations, oper-ations, and many flockmasters who bad decided to postpone sbenring until un-til after lambing have taken advantage advan-tage of the warm spell, and inarv band? are losing their winter coverings. cover-ings. There are 70 shearers at work In the sheds west of the city Elko county's wool clip for this season will closely approach the half-million half-million dollar mark oo |