The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-04

ing TO a local paper printed there, make
81 100 gallons OF whiskey every working
day, consuming therein 1870 bushels Of
corn. To grow that days supply ofcorn
for whisky requires $50 acres of ground
yielding an average of ~ iftshels to the
acre. The whole product of nearly one-half
a square mile for year is turned into
whisky in one day. Ii would take three
mddling good farms and all they could
raise at that, to run these. stills one day.
All the rice arriving at San Francisco
from the Hawaiian Islands has been sold, or
nearly all, and the market remains firm at
&c. 1t has advanced rapidly from ilc. not
very long since. The Journal of Commerce
of that city says "rhere is room for fur
ther improvement in the market, Last year
at this time the total imports OF rice had
been 39,5SS,9ll lbs. as against 35,777, 40
lbs. this year; while the imports Of
Hawaiian had been nearly 5000 900 lbs, as
against little over 4,000000 last year. All
the circumstances for high market were
thus in favor of the present year, but the
market for Hawaiian was 69o q year ago.
The price of mixed was also higher"
The largest transaction in tobacco ever
made in st. Louis, and perhaps in the west,
was made on the 18th in the purchase by
the Drummond tobacco company of st.
Louis and Alton, ILL.,, of $4,000 worth of
bright Virginia wrappers from Planters
warehouse. The price ranged from 90 to
" cents per pound.
COTTON.
The receipts to-day were light falling be-
low a hundred bales. Prices remain UNI
changed. 1t might be well to state
here that our quotations are just what
planters can get from their wagons on the
streets. There are some lots held here by
parties that are fully up to grade in every
particular, which might bring an eighth Of
a cent more from brokers who have orders
to fill for spinners, but all planters can eX-
pect to receive or all that buyers will give
on the streets is represented by our quota
tons.
sIt is understood that cotton buyers here
have an abundance of orders from spinners
in the east, and in Europe, but they are not
able to fill them at present quotations. If this
be true either spinners must change their
views or prices must decline 1t is to hoped
that cotton will not recede below what il is
now selling for and that consumers will
change their views to correspond with pres
ent prices. WeQuote to-day:
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The reports of the movements of cotton
have been so systematized that the total
crop is very accurately ascertained, but the
actual production of each state can only be
approximately determined, The Financial
Chronicle makes an estimate ofthe yield of
each state for the years lSS0-Sl, which is
doubtless very close to the actual result.
The Chronicle also tabulates the condi-
ton reports of the agricultural department
for this season for each OF five months, max
ing the general average $50 against 03.2
last wear, and makes deductions IRON these
as to the crop this season, using its own re-
port of the increased acreage. 1t expressly
disclaims this estimate as its own opinions
of the crop, and also says that the Ngricul-
tural department is not responsible for
them. They are simply deductions made
from the condition reports. The result,
compared with the actual crop of last year,
| is given lploW,