The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-24

largely promo a tho erowth, proapcrity aud
wealth Of w city Itself va have here IN
Dnnas in" ~ VI these small beginnings,
which son 20 day will become an honor 70
the pr9j' yotors, attracting trade from abroad,
nnd aiding materially III o. laudablc man.
ner n the efforts now being put forth by
MI our good citIzens for the success and
towns that are striving. TO rival her In COM
merclal greatness. And these enterprises,
insignificant as they may appear TO be now,
should be fostered by those who can aid In
their development, and particularly ut this
time when they need all the support and
encouragement that can be given TO them.
These remarks are called forth because we
have heard assertions on the part of some
that many go abroad for articles that
can be manufactured here, and at q
less cost than Is now paid for them.
Even wholesale dealers In some lines, IL Is
said, will not patronize home Industries,
sometimes because 1t would require little
exertion to dispose of them over other
brands or makes that have become popu-
larized with their customers, and again
because they are Indifferent as to the success
of any small enterprise that may be in
augurated here. 1t is to be hoped that this
feeling will no longer obtain In this city,
and that all will be animated by the noble
and praiseworthy motive to use every
diligence possible to push forward our
young and growing industries.
Business to-day has been quiet, except
alone in the Wholesale trade, which is,
in every lire. The wholesale trade
of Dallas, with fostering care and enterprise,
will astonish even the most hopeful when
our next September addition of the HERALD
is issued, showing the magnitude of our
sales and transactions of the present year
According to the Railroad Gazette there
have been constructed thus. far this year
6,0oS miles Of railroad, against .4,9i6 miles
reported at the corresponding time in 1880
2,9S7 miles in 1879, LIT miles in 1878, 1,S67
miles in 1877, 1881 miles in 1876, LIS miles
in 1875, 1914 miles in 1874, 3,2SS miles in 1873
and 1882 miles in 1872.
A dental magazine says that in this
| country alone twelve manufactures pro-
duce 100000 teeth annually, "or one to
every five persons in the United States"
The amount annually squandered on teeth
is S1000,000. A half million Of gold is
used every year to fill teeth. We are
rapidly becoming nation of gold mines.
| There Is no ivory waste. Even the pow
der is sold for making jelly. 1t is said that
one leading cutlery firm in Sheffield made
oalcuation-that to supply themselves with
1 the ivory needed tor their business they
needed 1 $50 elephants every year, and that
even with this number the tusks were each
estimated to weigh twenty-three and three
| fourth pounds.
Secretary HotchlSiss, of the Lumberman's
Exchange, reports stock on hand Novem-
Der l, as follows: Lumber, 500, 525 ABB feet;
shingles, 249, 800 AGO. sash, "A 1856 1872; pickets
2,S09, $40; posts, oil ,297.
At the session of the National Labor Con-
gress in Pittsburg, resolutions were passed
protesting against convict labor, the
truck" system, and in favor of reduction
of working hours.
The National Board of Health has ex-
pended since its organization, April /, 1879,
! to June 80, 1881, total of $40, 1893.
| The average yield of spirits for the past
month is reported by the Internal Revenue
officials to have been 1865 gallons to the
bushel.
The total school fund of Kansas is
| $11 ,S15, 1920.
In New York spots opened dull and quiet
and closed steady at one-sixteenth of de-
cline; middlings, II 1916. Sales 64.
New Orleans opened and closed quiet,
without change; middlings III. Sales $500.
| Galveston closed steady, middlings 11s.
| sales 1861, receipts 4,175.
| There were no reports from St. Louis, but
I it is fair to presume that no change has
| taken place inprices.
| In Liverpool the cotton market was firm
| for spots, without change in values. Mid
dlings, So; Orleans, o.. Sales, $4,000, Of
which 10, 200 wer, American. Receipts, 12,-
100 bales.
! The cotton movement of this country
shows the net receipts to be 81,
294 against 6S,94 the same time last
year, an excess of 22,340 bales; the exports
to. Great Britain were 26,851: France S,82lt
continent 1859; channel ports none. The
stock on hand at all the ports was SOS, 08l
against S73,555 the same time last year.
The receipts at all the ports SO far show
that the diminution of the crop is not as
great the popular estimates would indicate.
The Manchester Guardian of November
is says the market is quiet, and there is no
sign of increased business. There was fair
| inquiry in some departments at prices cur
rent ten days ago, but producers IN these
cases are very extensively and firmly hold
ing for slight advance.
The Chinese nation is the most extensive
consumer of cotton in the world, and ninety
per cent. of the cotton goods worn there
are handmade which, even at the exces.
sively low rate CT wages paid in that coun'
| try, is more expensive than the production
of cotton goods in this country, when the
staple is moderate in price. The question
of the effect of cotton manufactures in the
South upon the industry in New England
has been dropped from the discussion, q,
there is room enough for the product of all
The Terrell Star says the unprecedented
mildness of the present season, which has
onlyheen partially Offset by the heavy
rains of the past few weeks, has caused a
considerable portion of the top crop TO open
and more cotton has consequently been
made than agriculturists expected few
weeks ago.
The St. Louis Republican says the cotton
crop of the year continues to be subject
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Il in the trade. and opinions naturally are in
strong opposition, and will be for time
yet, but with the short-crop advocates
most demonstrative. Yesterday the follow
ing bet was chalked on one of the cotton
exchange bulletin boards: $1,000 is Of
fered on this exchange that the re-
ceipts at United States ports will no wee
this season reach 10000 bales" These
receipts at United States ports are
regarded as indicative Of the production.
Last year the largest receipts any week
were 252,657 bales, for the week ending
November 8. and 255, $40 bales for the week
ending November 10, the largest weeks
receipts on record.
There seems to be an anxiety ON the part
Of cotton men 70 know the fluctuations In
the future market II is safe 10 say that there
Is an eQuanimity in prices to-day which
would hardly justify anyone in buying OF
selling. IL there is a changeto be expected.
il should be an advance. which would hard
ly be large enough to justify anyone IN
4 investing, for when commissions and
other expenses are paid there would be but
a small margin left even should prices adj
vance several points. In New York there
has been a slight decline, which also Is true
OF the New Orleans market. As We have
said before, the sellers are the ring men and
when they want 10 take in the margins put
mp BIZ The Southern bulls the market
\ VIII decline, aud buyers viii be the losers.
We give quotations Of dosing in New York,
New orleans and Liverpool.
The f0reien trace OF the country IL falling
| off largely. During the ten months ending
I October. ls30 the Aggregate exports Of bar
lev. ron, corn meal, oats, rye, wheat, and