VALUES STEADY IN BRADFORD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 4

VALUES STEADY IN BRADFORD.

Business continues on tho quret side, and this notwithstanrlini; tlint all combins ami spinning machinery is kept fully inn. That still remains (ho encouraging feature of the West Hiding trade. If we go outside Bradford we find machinery is standing in more places than one, but in the mills are fairly busy, and that is cause for satisfaction. In Worstpilopolis, quietness is still tho preyailinjt fvaturc of tho Irade, althoiich n littJo more nibblin* has been recently done. What Inin.'actinn.s take place seem to lie mostly confined te the purchasing of small quantities of raw matorial, no one svemiriKly heiiij; disposed to buy iu fresh supplies on a largo scale. Tho., fact is, little, fear is .exDrespd ovct

Iho future of values, and there ssems to 1)0 a chwiro on no part of the tivirjo lo fora; prices in an upward direction. Mori bos coiilfuuo very slrady, but is. SJu. is about Die oulsidu price Hunt spinners will pay for O-l's tops. It is commonly reported that in more qiiailers than one it is possible (o buy at less money, but Homujiow topmalicr.i an* not keen hellers, it being their firm belief that lino wool h going to be no cheaper until larger supplies of new clip aro available A fwr weight <rf wool is still being slii.ft«l !•;■ commission woolcombers, and stocks in their hand"; are in no smso heavy, particularly of line tops. There is a goneral belief that Botany qualities lire going to remain to the front for another season, but without doubt the future ol price is going Ui largely depend upon the present measure of consumption tain;; maintained, Orossbreds arc in a very unresponsive position, find here quietness is much in evidence. Topmakers say th- ■ can sell Boino fair weights of 30's at 13J<1. Co l.'ild., but iO's to 4G'js are almost a dead letter, and if the truth is told, usors can get in at id. loss than three weeks ago.- Th?re certainly is a great netxl of n fresh buy nt the crossbred cad of the trade, and spi'nnera say they nro under no necessity to eutur tiio market, for they have plenty of tops yet to coin* in thai were bought as far back as l'ast March.