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America, but a large part of the American import 

 comes from Liverpool, England. At Bradford the 

 raw material is manufactured, some of the manufac- 

 tured stuff being exported as yarn, but the larger 

 part is used to produce the finished article. The re- 

 maining ten or fifteen per cent, is manufactured in 

 the United States. At times the demand for mohair 

 goods stimulates the demand for raw material, and the 

 United States has been known to use from twenty to 

 twenty-five per cent, of the world's supply. To re- 

 capitulate, the United States produces five per cent, 

 of the world's annual supply of raw mohair, and 

 manufactures from ten to twenty-five per cent, of the 

 world's annual production. 



MOHAIR PRICES. 



The price of mohair has fluctuated with the 

 caprice of fashion. Supply and demand are the 

 essential factors in its valuation, but demand has 

 been so influenced by the requirements of fashion in 

 the past that one finds a wide range in price for the 

 raw material. In a report issued by the Bradford 

 Observer we find the price ranging from fifty cents a 

 pound in 1856, to eighty cents in 1866, ninety cents 

 in 1876, and then down to thirty cents in 1886 and 

 1896. In 1903 the average price in the United States 

 was about thirty-five cents a pound, and for 1904 

 about thirty cents a pound. 



