Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-24
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OFFICE OF THE DAILY APPEAL.
MEMPHIS, April q, 1857. pm.
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n GENERAL BUSANEsS.
Business has not been active durin
the past week, although It is gradual
: improving. The provision market car
, not be called firm, although prices az
low when compared with those Of othe
, markets. Corn has advanced; and oat
is also held at high figure, nOtwith
standing which, the stock now on han
could not be duplicated and sold at tn
present rates. Good butter is verI
scarce, but the stock of common OF
hand is large. Eggs are scarce, ant
firmer than last week. Potatoes are il
fair supply, with an active demand fol
good cooking, and very few in market
Flour is firm at our quotations, and q
very good stock on hand.
| COTTON-The market remains much
the same as yesterday, with no sales
worth noting. Receipts for the day, 81
bales. For the past two days there has
been no shipments. The receipts for the
week were 1898 bales shipments for the
week, 1900 bales. Stock on hand, Is, 765
bales. The total receipts at this port
since September lst were 20l 1854 bales.
The list of regular correspondents OF
| the department of agriculture for the
southern states now numbers seven thoJ- :
sand five hundred, and this number is
daily being augmented by the addition
of names of farmers in the southern
states who have consented to furnish the
department with statistical Information
from their respective localities. 1t is
the intention of the commissioner to OBJ
tain, if possible, correspondent in every
county in the south, and an agent is now
travelling in that section for the purpose
of securing the assistaDce of the most
reliable and best posted men in those
states. N
The commissioner of agriculture has
prepared, and will shortly send to the
correspondents of the department,
throughout the country, circular call
ing for statistics relative to the average
acreage of winter wheat, winter rye,
winter barley, oats and clover, as COM
pared with the product of the previous
year; also, the condition OF the spring
pastures, the average amount of maple
sugar and molasses made as compared
with last year, statistics relative to
sheep, the clip of wool, the condition of
cows and pumber of calves, and the
ties of fruit trees, etc.
It is probable that the coming wheat
crop will be the largest ever grown on
this continent. 1t bids fair to be excel
lent in Middle Tennessee, and the
breadth sown appears to be large.
One of the arguments offered by
Maine papers for the proposed Piscata-
quis railroad is, that there is hard wood
enough on the route to make all the
spools and other wooden notions required
for the whole 0oUntFy.h
Subscription books have been opened
in San Francisco for the Oregon Central
railroad company, which was organized
under q law of congress TO build rail-
road from the Columbia river to Cali
fornia, connecting with the California
and Oregon railroad. Shares are to be
subscribed for at their par value In gold
or its equivalent in currency, and assess
ments not exceeding ten per cent. may
be levied as often as once ic sixty days.
As money is not abundant with the far
mers on the route, provision is made that
shares may be subscribed and paid for
with "elaimed" or improved lands,
rating them at fair cash valuation.
The New York Times calls attention to
the fact that the Russian Possessions
which we have recently acquired have
vast supplies of wood and COAL articles
that are scarce in California The 'dense
pine forests of the territory recently
acquired will be a source of immense
wealth; and the coal mines, of which
we have become the owners, are wanted
to supply the steamship lines Of the fu-
ture on the Pacific.
The New Albany Journal says; With
the prevailiEg high prices for breadstutfs,
it is gratifying to know that the growing
wheat crop was never more promising.
In some sections the breadth of land
planted was not as large as usual, owing
TO the scarcity of seed but there is new
ertheless a fair average of land under
winter wheat, and if the harvest turns
out as well as it now promises, We shall
have fair yield.