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to thirty-two cents, the latter price being paid for good stapled light 

 conditioned and sightly free wools. 



Rates for fall wool have been generally about the same as those 

 ruling in eighteen hundred and seventy-six. The lower premium 

 on gold, and latterly the reduction of freight, have rendered possible 

 their being landed in Eastern markets at lower cost than a year since. 



The receipts of Oregon wool have increased. The Eastern wools 

 were better than heretofore, as they contained less alkali and were of 

 finer quality. Prices ranged from twenty-six cents to twenty-nine 

 cents. Valley wools were of the usual character — from twenty-eight 

 cents to thirty-three cents was paid. A large amount was shipped to 

 the East for owners account, because buyers could not be found here 

 to take the wool at cost. On account of the wide variation in char- 

 acter and consequent difference in values of free wools grown in the 

 State, we omit the tabular quotations heretofore given. Free wool 

 from one part of the State has been sold at fifteen cents to seven- 

 teen cents, while the production of other sections has realized at the 

 same time thirty cents to thirty-one cents. 



PRODUCTION OF CALIFORNIA WOOL TAKEN FROM THK BOOKS OF K. GRISAR <fc COMPANY, FROM F.IGHT- 



F.KN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR TO EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN, INCLUSIVE. 



1S54 ] 75.000 



1855 300,000 



1856 600,000 



1857 1,100,000 



1858 1,42s.:;:, i 



1859 2,378.250 



1S60 3,055,325 



1861 3,721,998 



1862 5.990,300 



1863 6,268,480 



1864 7,923,670 



1865 8,949,931 



Amount carried forward 41,891,305 



Amount brought forward 41,891 ,305 



1866 8,532.047 



1867 10,288,600 



1868 14,232,657 



1869 15.413.970 



1870 20,072,660 



1871 22.187,188 



1872 24,255,468 



1873 32,155.169 



1874 39.356,781 



1875 43,532.223 



1876 56,550,970 



1S77 53,110,742 



Total 381,579,780 



