The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-08
MONEY AND TRADE.
YESTERDAYS MARKET SITUATION.
Trade Active-A Live Day all Round
Meats Firm and Upward = Good
Stocks OF FIOur-Wheat Scarce
and ia Demand--COuntry Pro-
duce-- N otes and Quotations
DALLAs. Wednesday Afternoon, !

DALLAs, Wednesday Afternoon,
July Z, 1880
AS predicted yesterday, we had splend Id
trade to-day. Both city and country mer-
chants were liberal purchasers from our
wholesale houses, while buyers at large were
more numerous THAI they have been in a
week. And. moreo' er, the weather was
splendid, yesterdays rain storm being fol-
lowed by u cool, delightful stmos-
phere free of dust, with the Their
mometer not getting above 20 degrees
without the barometer indicating IN lmmed:-
ate rain fall Reports from tbs country to-
day say Va, crops are booming. All are
agreed they are the fine ever grown out of
this ground. The rn crop has mAtured and
such yield was never known sine, the days
when Pharoan commanded Joseph TO prepare
for seven years famine AS TO cotton the
question Is not "a TO the crop, bat where are
enough hands to come lrOm.tO pick 1t out? II III
as3rious matter common with cotton plant
era, There Is no extra labor worth speak N e
of in our towns and cities They areall i'm
proving so rapidly every one wanting work
readily get IL, black ana white, leaving no
necessity for rc3urling to the cotton potChrs
Cotton picllers, If hey can be had at all. VIII
command high, wages this full. We mink
vic lhCl bHuU u 10 Known hDtAu, Dul JlNL mere
another trouble Is, labor Is reported very
scarce in all the states The new railroads
now building have swept the country of Its
extra mon oy the thousand, and have even
gone % Europe 10 make up deilCie lcies
these are matt ~ worthy of sober COnsidcra-
ton by mercantll men as well as ia mers
All divisions of Texas are crying aloud far m
migration More help 10 demanded by almost
every landed proprietor from oRe emf vi the
state TO The other.
Meats are decidedly bnllIsh to-day, aud It
took spot down-on-th the counter cas- Ii
TO get bacon this morning at The quotations
Dispatches from western markets " Gro OF he
anne tenOr aud upward tendency, "Gun't nh
at The OtieI, " shave none for sale at present."
al OF which meant they are Xpeoling RI, q.
We donOt change our quotations as the sales
at whole ale to-day Were made AZ Them u5 n
general rule.
Flour was in better supply Several car
loads of"toregn" fancy Were received, but IL
was about all GobbIed up before night, In the
lot was AGAR OF the new patent process when
went OFF ut S3. 80 PEI hundred, ana ratified ont
like sh 1t out of u shovel. There was not quite
half enough OF " for supper Tonight che
city Mills have caughtup with orders aud now
have asu plus on hand They Were asking
the Old Prices Lhls IN rning aud Killing country
order ut them The flour markets of the
we are generally we ak and have \ dOwnrwat
tenuetcy. Tho wheat crops there ARE euOrm
GUS anu four Is In corresponding sympathy.
Wheat Is coming In slowly, very Tue rom
yesterday again checked II, none was re-
ceived that day 'nd very little to-dey. Farm
ers seem reluctant to part with It, only selling
as matter OF ueGessti and in order to gvL
money TO pull through the summer, Tuey
are pretty K ner lily solved TO hold plenty |
In reserve at home w cover possible failure |
OF next years crop. We have no changes to |
make In yesterday squotations, which are re-
peated in the grain figures below.
In CQln w near ut f.W iran Suc'!pnf, and |
In strictly retail way. There Is next 10 no
stock Mt ali in the city. AZ several stores |
where 1t In cold W. saw but u few sackson Tn
floor, and scarcely enough IN all TO more
than load two horse wagon. White Is up
to 80 cents and mixed cents cheaper,
Oats and hay moved slowly ut their acCus-
toned gait lately Receipts light and sales
small Grass is still sn RANK ana gre horses
easy subsis enCe II given freedom or even o
tolerably long rope and half u cnance.
General groceries we're active and firm all |
through tbs Catalogues. sugars and c0tiees,
syrup and molasSes are selling at the full quo.
tatiOns, Ind oil provisions of all standard
kinds are strong, with indications that they
will com memo this TALL where the boom left
them In tha sprng.
Country produce WAS more active, with
every demand promptly met. There was
scarcity IN NJ hirg to-day, and will not be for
some time to come.
The rain yesterday ireshened up the vegeta-
BILE kingdom, and hence the markets this
morning were loaded with the incest in the
world just picked from the gardens in aud
around the CITY. We gave yesterday an elab-
crate review of the ruling rates. and they pre-
vailed to-day The leading articles
are qnTteS SoSw and a,s so tGss
prices OF highly perishable articles. open at in |
tho morning and sell for up To noon, after
which they become pancky and are closed
out at demo alzsd rates, or some other un
known quantity.