The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-10
MONEY AND TRADE,
YESTERDAYS MARKET SITUATION.
Trade Active-FIOur Firm with Im'
ported scarce Bacon Very Firm f.
.T3 Coffee and Sugar Very
Firm-COuntry Produce
ea-. Lively and I'm Buyers
Favor Notes and
Quotations.
DALLAS, Friday Afternoon, I
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July 8, 1850.
Trade to-day was an improvement upon
yesterday, in orders at least, whilst the city
and retail business was right lively for hot
summer day. Whilst grocerymen are selling
large quantities of solid provisions, country
wagons are doing big business In fruit, veg
etables and farm table truck generally. Tue
people here live like "1ghting cocks. -
Everything is SO plentiful and
cheap the most trihing lout
n the census books gets plenty to eat.
nh "a OF four dollars per week ana good
a ok will load any table In town with all
sorts of good things Half the game, however
is in the cooking. Every civilized man will
have good cook he will either hire or marry
one. With this stipulation complied with
there is no remaining excuse for any one not
getting fat
Meats were active and II possib more firm
than yesterday. Clear rib dry salt sides were
selling at cents and short clear bacon 9Iac@
gslc. The stock In town was suffici mt to
meet the demand, which Is very heavy, and
will so continue until after the bulk Of the
cotton crop isgathered We will not kill hogs
before December, The 81 Luis Repdbli-
can, of the 7th, thus quotes that
market: '1ebttrlay tDo market was higher
and sitter. Dry salt meats and bacon were
very scarce and In demand The fact Is tn at
there is little stock OF the hog product hele-
80 little, indeed, that any statistical state
ment of 1t is i'm possible. summer cured pre- =
duct has b en- Ia active demand-and " ster.
day 3 phase of market is shown in the fol ow
ing delai of the day sand Saturdays trad bg;
Transactions in FUTURES yesterday Included
bids of Sl3 July, sale August at Slj 90 ana the
following cash sales for the day: PORK 80 bblsf
o. b. East side aud small lot net this side at
srsl3 25. Lard, red ed, briggs i2sW7Ac in ties.
D.S. Meats, Saturday y, IN, 2Ol, 100 lbs winter
cribs up country at q. &c freight l5c Yester-
day 5000 lbs do short clear at 7.lOc freight $50,
small lots spot do at 14OGi5c loose and 7lac
packed ;some of latter on orders as "a Bacon,
small lots c.s. 9. hams (which are held higher
at l0c To i0hc, 81 pkgs shoulders at 1898 l219
6l5. loo, 4lO bxs long clear at soc, 20 DAs do
at Sc, 100 csRs clear rib at 7%o, % pkgs do ut
7h@90c 10 CSC, 10 pkgs short clear at l2h@
20D, Go do al SIC, 20 csks do del this week at
poo. Orders "a shoulders nc, clear
rib SAc, short clear S1so." Later dispatches
from St Louis say short clear smoked sides
are held at eba cents. This would make them
cost ga laid down in Dallas Store, which Is
the prizes we are selling at to-day,
Flou. is unchanged. No imported fancy
here. Messrs. McEnnis II Reach are expect
ing u stock Of their cyclone Saturva or
Monday aeve nj other dealers say they viii,
have cat-lOads down In day or two. inc
City mills are now up with orders and
promptly meeting, ali demands made
upon them. imported fancy is
sin held at Sj,25, and city
brands are Gel ing Mt from So IS 10 AZ %
per hundred.
Wheat is m better receipt, and 1t is crafty
ing TO sse better quality coming in. PriceF
unohangel. The p,iceg bAl wv are right Hnd
were app Oven By our buyer this mo nj lg
We see the II crop is beginning to crowd
the western markets and prices are sinking
Coffee Is he'd AT the outsiae fractions, unless
spot cash Is offered and round lot wanted.
sugar ia also firm and looking up. Molasse'
and syrups are quiet and easy.
Corn is easy. We heard of one Car of whit
selling at 81 cents on track To be order, q by
telegraph to-day. IL In dead scarce over town
Oats are 20 cents per bushel for shellcd
Wholesale, aad % retail. Sheaf, 10 cents PEE
dozen bundles.
take an upward turn: 1t won seem specu
lstors have secured about all they hope TO &c
at the depressed prices, and thu brakes AZ
beginninu to be taken OH. The Boston Com
meroial Bulletin of Saturday laA, states AZ tOl
lows OF the Boston market: ''The wool m n
ket mss bsen more active, and there has beer
q general hardening tendency In al gr 'des
che net result of he weeks business be NJ al
improvement of l6s3c W ib. Interviews b!
our re por,ers with lumber of manufacture or
indicate a general feeling OF conh encA In III
staple at present prices, but no excitement
aud a disposition to operate caution ly an
Quietly. The b. tier eeiny In this market ua
extended to the interier and to The Pacih
cOast, end has become intensified there, u
YVES to DO expected.
There has beeo quite little furry in IAN Fran
els 20 and prices there have stlle ned up abou
30. per lib. choice northern selling at Sac. Ii
Ohio free purchas, > are being uade on o basi
OF 40c. for flne washed fieeces; aud in Mich
gan and Wisconsin the WOODS are reported +
be about all bought up In some sections
There Is still goOa stock of wool IN Boston
and many manufacturers are also fairly sup
piled :"
Hides are quiet aud easy. at lsS for dr.,
flint t-'+
splendid watermelons appeared upon III
market this morning. indeed a, fine as eve
grew In the world, and III, y were from tn
magnificent country of Dallas county. The
were held at 10, Is and 70 cents, the latte
getting one as large as six men co,ld eat.
Several wagon loads of Dallas count
peaches were brought In to-day. They wer
Tar superior to the Red River scrubs wa hav
been eating for several weeks aud sold for I5c
per pail of one-third of bushel.
Butter is little scarce of table choice, an
consequer tly stiff but not quotably higher
Some retailers are asking more than Yesterday
Eggs are also scarce aud held at S(llOc.
Spring chickens are hardly to be had at an
price. They have been off the market so ION
people have generally forgotten them. Fo
some reason or other not many are raised 4
striking distance of this market