The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-18
MONEY AND TRADE
YESTERDAYS MARKET SITUATION
Cotton Quiet-Adyance I'm MEANS
Flour Active ana Firm-C0rn Dun
and Lower - General Grocer
les steady-State OF Trade
and Quotations.
DALLAS, Thursday Afternoon, }
June ~, 1880.

Trade was moderately firm to-day. 1t
was perhaps not quite 80 good as yesterday,
though decided improvement upon last
week. Our merchants are beginning to think
that they have passed the dullest days OF the
summer, and that, from this on, trade
will improve. The crops are in such
splendid condition, and the most bountiful
yield the people of Texas ever saw so we'll
assured the farmers have no occasion to hold
on to money and deprive themselves OF such
articles as they need. They last year laid
mp not for a rainy day but dry day,
and as we are not having any dry days this
year, there is no necessity for providing
for consequential damages.
As foreshadowed yesterday meats adj
vanced fully 1-S upon all cuts this morning.
Short clear smoked sides opened at 8 I'D and
closed firm al that price.
The quotations of other cuts
are revised in proportion. The
stock in the city is hardly ample to supply
tho demand, which is still very, very
heavy.
Lard and hams are in regular request and
unchanged. The stock of the former is
ample-the latter moderate.
Flour is very active and firm. There is
nearly as much demand, or inquiries at least
for imported as ever, but our merchants
have next TO none They supposed new
Texas would so nearly supply the trade there
would DO little room for other states, but
thew so far find no cessation in the demand
for fancies. We.have no changes to make in
the regular quotations to-day.
Bran is held at IS cents.
Corn is slow and went off l cent per
bushel. White in store was offering at 81,
and mixed at 81. There is not much on the
market and orders out are small, if any, for
more to DO shipped.
Hay is only in request for the city trade.
The country crop will be enormous, and if
mown close the surplus will be large.
Sugars are steady with good sales. Mo-
lasses moderately active and steady.
Coffee is dull and dropping.
Canned goods slow in sale for vegetables.
We have nothing favorable from wool
markets. They seem lapsed into permanent
inertia. Perhaps they will wake up some
of these fine mornings. Cold weather is
coming when warm clothing will be in
demand.
Hides continue in good demand AT the old
rates. There are not many offering.
Country produce was slow to-day. Market
gardeners find it necessary to work hard to
get rid of their surplus at any price, and are
making almost any concession asked. 1t is
at that season when many city gardens yield
all and more than the family require,
and hence do not tbuy much
from the country. But these gardens do
not last long, and a regularly run market
farm has, or ought to have, something for
sale every day in the year.
The horse and mule market is moderately
active. There is some demand for tarm
stock, and for which good prices are paid.
Labor is scarce AMI high, and growing
more so every day. The railroads have
drained the country to very great extent,
leaving no surplus for farmers. There is a
loud call for more immigration, and an in
definite number OF men used to manual
labor could find ready employment in every
county in North Texas. And the question
is more urgent every day in the country,
where is the labor to come from to pick the
extraordinary crop of cotton now growing