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Boston Wool Market

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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The past has been ralher a quiet week n the wool market, aud the sales exhibit a material falling of frorn the aggregate last reported. The large corporation buyers, having supplied themselves for the present, have rstired from the field, and consumera of lesser note have been piekiog up small lots, though at very full prices. The market rules very firm; and, as present stoeks ean haidly be replaced at current rates, there is bo disposition to forcé sales or maké concessions. Fine Ohio wool has been coming in more freely of late, though the best clips are being bougbt up at a cost (about 75c on the spot) which affords no margin at rates: now current in the Eastern markets. But this is the best that eau be done, and this description is now wanted for consumption. West Virginia and Pennsylvauia staplo is also arriving in small quantities, but generally lield above the market. The eropgof the extreme West and the New Englaud States continúes to arnve in scattering parcela, being mostly held above the views of bnyers. Wool is graded much more elosely this season than during the last four years. The fine staple is most deairable since the close of the war, and is thereiore carefully picked out. Very few mixed lots are sold. The coarse staple is no longer needed for the production of army cloths, and henee there is a greater discrimination both in the quality and ratee. Sales of domestic for the week foot up some 550,000 lts., at a range of 65a 81Jc for fleece, and 62Ja85o for super and extra pulled. Iucluded large lots of Illinois fleece at 55c, .Wisconsin, New York and Vermont at 65a68c, Michigan al G8a73c; Ohio medium at 72Jc, and do, fine and choice, 78a82ic, the outtude figure for selected lots. Pulled wool is scarce and wanted, especiallv the grown

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus