Some Aspects of the Wool Trade of the United States

Abstract

Wool dealing as an intermediary between wool growing and wool manufacturing, 338. — Private sales the basis of the American system, 339. — The American wool trade at the present time. Extent of the traffic, 341. — Organization of the business in the East, the South, the West, on the Pacific Coast, 342. — Attempts to change the existing methods by complete reorganization. New York Wool Exchange, 349. — Partial reorganization, by local warehouses, 352. — And terminal warehouses, e. g. Chicago Wool Warehouse and Storage Company, 353. — Betterment of facilities without change in the existing system, 355. — The Boston Warehouse, 355. — Plan for a conditioning house, 356.