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wool alone. Some mutton has also been shipped out 

 of the State, fourteen cases having been shipped from 

 Julesburgh alone. The price of wool was much greater 

 last year than it was in 1878, and the advance in price 

 has been regular and still continues. Wool which 

 brought 22 cents in Colorado last spring is now selling 

 for 35 cents in Boston, and would, if to be had, be 

 worth 31 cents here now. Mr. "Wright estimates that 

 500,000 lambs were added to the number of sheep in 

 the State during the year. Several thousand head of 

 sheep were also driven in from outside points, — Cali- 

 fornia contributing 45,000, which were sold, upon ar- 

 rival, at : lambs, $2 ; wethers, $2.50 ; ewes, $3. The 

 California shipments of sheep are not especially popu- 

 lar. They come in late in the season, and generally 

 with the scab, so that they cannot be cured before cold 

 weather sets in, thus causing them to lose to their pur- 

 chasers considerable quantities of wool ; hence the first 

 clip is not so good, though after that time they shear 

 more heavily than Colorado breeds. 



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