Monday, August 29, 2011

Wool is now higher than it has been for forty-four years.


This is owing to the large demand for army goods, and the advanced prices of cotton.  It will not soon fall so low again as it has been of late years, and we shall be surprised if the flocks upon our hills are not greatly increased. – Province Journal.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 15, 1862, p. 2

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