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Show FEW WOOL BALES AS YETj SHEARING IS OOINQ WELL lluver of wool in Prne the lust few (lnH are milking few outright offers of-fers for the clips Irom Kasteru Utah, most of which nre each season marketed market-ed horu. Thoy state, however, that tho local product ought to bring between be-tween fifty nnd sixty euils. Little up to tudn has changed hands, ltcjtortu received nt Bait Lake Citj bv Prof. F It. Marshall, secretary of the National Na-tional Woolgrow era ' association, from Jericho ore to the effect that ta hundred und fifty thousand pounds of wrol have just been sold for seven-ty-ono cents n pound, Tho competition competi-tion between tho buyers is reported to bn,o been er keen. This is tho first wool snlo of unv eongecruence in Utah this ear. The sales were made by sealed hid. Tho prieo biought for tho wool is encouraging, according to Murshall, although it is of a fine grade, nnd tho finer grades uf wool find a ready sale, Dr. S, W. McClure, former secretary of tho uKsociation, recently turned down an offcrof sixty-two rentH n pound for his and has consigned it to Portland, Ore, Borne seventj-five thousand head of sheep aro being shorn at Mounds, Desert Lake and C. K, Jensen's place in the Price territory, perhaps two-, thirds of these at Mounds. Flock-1 masters figure the) will get through! nicely by lombing time. Thero Willi be few losses this spring because, of tho cold wenthor. |