The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-10
MONEY AND TRADE
= EsrERDAus MARKET SITUATION.
Cotton Quiet-Mests slow and Firm
Corn and Flour Slow and I'm
changed Wheat and Its Ont
LOCKWOOD and Hides-BuiId-
ing Material and Country
Produce.
DALLAs, Monday Afternoon, !

1t was reported ION change that Their
was more business in wholesale houses thar
Yesterday. II looked rather slim, however
and actually dull around retail stores anc
shops. Merchants at Ill events have pretty
heavy stock of that necessary commodity in
dull times, confidence, and insist that in o
short while there will be revival in business
The wheat crop is yet to be marketed
Planters in the city to-day say they expec,
to begin picking cotton by the first day OF
August and will begin to sell it by the
10th, the crop now promising very early
maturity. They never saw it SO forward as
now. Business always revives when
cotton picking begins. And hence, accord
ng TO this, the fall trade will open early in
August For the balance of the summer we
must rely upon wheat alone for recruiting
the stock Of trade on hand now. 40 a
Meats were in active demand, firm and
scarce. They are not quotably higher,
though some holders are well convinced they
should ask Is more. Sales we're made to-day
at 81 for smoked bacon clear sides. There
were but few cases of dry salts in town.
The ST. Louis Republican Of the Eth gives
the following quotations." ID. S. Meat-Sales
up country-l00,000 lbs long clear and
100000 lbs clear ribs, freight ere l5c, at &c
and 6,10c respectively, and here car loose
clear ribs 70 ut 742!c. Loose shoulders
saleable at 4c; clear sides at 64c. Bacon
Sales, $4,000 lbs loose clear ribs ribs at 6.S5c
70 b; 5000 lbs loose clear sides at ITO c; 20
boxes long clear at G.90c; so halfcasks clear
ribs at 7c; % pkgs, shoulders Age; clear sides
7f@7.3Oc on orders 80 pkgs; shoulders 4a(0 |
A, clear ribs 7l@7sc clear sides Ito 7sc.
We qnote; & s hams at % to 1l4c. Lard
Quiet Prime steam held at &c, bid &c;
small sales refined terce on orders at u to
TIC"
Flour was quiet. Fancies were selling at
$50 25 per hundred. There was fair ship.
ping trade in sm II lots.
We are still without we'll defined wheat
Market the new crop being
provolsingly slow coming forward No re-
oeipts nor sales were reported. The St.
Ionic market WAS thus quoted on the 7,h
Instant: No. winter cash, 81 .0961.l0 No,
winter june, $1034Ca1.04 No. 2 winter
July, 93a@934; No. 9 winter August, CLIO
9lG No 2 winter year, 9O0S93: No. winter
cash, $l06.
Corn was dead slow with little mixed to
offer IT stood at Yesterdays rates. There |
are not over tour carloads IN town all told |
and the sum of all orders to Kansas amounts
to that much more.
Hay and oats were in their usual regular
demand and unchanged. The presses are
taking all good stock offered at IS per ton.
They retail it in one hundred pound bale
packages at eighty cents per hundred.
There was nothing new in country pro-
duce. The first new csntalupes and water.
melons were on sale to-day and Yesterday.
They came up from Galveston island and 70.
tailed at 40, SO and rs cents apiece. The
was of fair size the melon small
and of poor quality. They sold rapidly all
the same.
OF vegetables there is no lack and of the
finest ever grown in this land, the season be.
ing all that the truck farmer could ask.
30 far rs this market is concerned wool has
played out for the time being And so far
Ms reported there is not much more doing in
the other markets Of Texas. The fight be.
tween the wo 4 syndicate and the grower
eoheit"No WIN HtiIutT oltlb showing Signs OF |
As the time for the fall trade is
rapidly approaching, the manufacturer will
have to either yield or fail 30 meet demand
for wooden goods. Following was the St.
Louis market on the 7th: Offerings light
md mostly ofpoor grades, the inquiry being
7 the better grades Buyers very indiflor.
ent, and some of them out af the market
We quote; Tub washed-Diugy and low
81 to 39c; medium 40 to 43c; choice to fancy
"A to Acc. Unwashed-Medium eombing u
70 zoe; medium % to cole; coarse combinr
"a TO 26c; light fine % to 25c; heavy do II 10
2lc; bury, black and cotted y to lie per
cent off,"
Hides firm and unchanged.
The horse and mule market is
quiet. A few are offering but
selling slow 1t is anticipated that there
VIII be heavy demand for tn better trade
of farm stock during the fall and spring.
The Recent Fall i'm Railroad Stocks.