Boston Buyer Arrives
A short dispatch on the arrival of another Boston wool buyer in Billings, part of a pattern of eastern firms scouting Montana's wool crop early — a glimpse of the wool trade's national reach.
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Fergus County Argus · September 12, 1905 · Page 1
1 min readBillings, Sept. 11.
E. S. May, representing Jeremiah Williams & Co., of Boston, wool buyers, arrived here this morning. His arrival was the second this week of Boston buyers, and corroborates in a measure the prediction made a few days ago that the eastern houses would be on the ground early looking after next year's crop of wool. Already local buyers, Fraser Bros., the men who captured a goodly portion of the wool of this section, have made a number of contracts for next year.
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