The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-14
DALLAS EXCHANGE AND COIN
COMMERCIAL.

DALLAS, December Bone of our lead.
ing hardware men in this city remarked to-
day that his trade had increased twenty per
cent, per month for the last half year. He
C SAID that the greatest difficulty he had to
encounter was to get enough of certain
lines oil goods to supply his trade. He will
start East this week to make
arrangements for his supplies durin.
the coming year, and thinks that prices
now are much lower than they will rule in
lew months from to-day. Another mer-
chant remarked that the trade of Dallas
was really greater than the facilities nj
present would justify, and that every OK.
clusiyely wholesale house had more busi.
mes offered than could be iudiciously
handled 1t is known that other towns
III North Texas endeavor to de-
tract from the great commercial
standing OF Dallas, but their efforts will be
IKE blowing against the wind. All Dallas
now wants. is more wholesale houses in
every branch OF business to accommodatethe
trade that Is seeking to become tributary,
ana an auxiliary to the commercial great.
ness OF our city. We shall take occasion
soon to speak of the immense import-
ance the new roads now pro.
jected will be to the business of our citv
Business to-day, Notwithstanding the bad
weather, has been active, and particularly
in the, grain and feed line. Groceries are
very iirm, and the sales to country towns
unprecedently large. One firm TODAY
shipped the first order for goods received
were sent as far west us that city, orders
would be large in all lines
Dallas to-day offers them the hest
market west of New York, and probably
for the. limited amounts dealers In thai
city buy ut present, there is no market i'm
the country in which they could purchase
more advantageously than in this city.
me lumber trade here has not declined
In volume even this late in the season. Our
dealers are doing a larger business at home
,nan even IN the summer months, while
the wagon trade to the country fully equa 3
the best days of the past year. The Enn
Claire News gives the amount of Lumbar
cut by the mill in that city during the mast
season at 2S2, $50, i06 shingles, l09, SOB 750.
lath 63, 456,0O0 pickets, l,203,775. The IN.
tai amount of lumber rated through the
boom at Oshkosh this year according 10 fir.
ures made by Supt. Wall, is 1875, l390O0, 6f
this amount the logs came from the differ.
ent streams as follows; From Shoe and
Lower Main; 100000; from Pigeon and
Embarras, 7,WO,OOO; from Little Wolf, 30
90 600; from Upper Wolf river, ss,OOOOo0.
This amount rated through last wear was
a trile less than 150,00O,O00, leaving n do.
crease this year of about l., 600 900. Never.
theless, the shortness of the saving season
mas probably left decrease In the amount
oil lumber sawed far greater than this, II il
estimated that from 25,00OO0O TO 30 600 600
ieet OF logs are now held over here and M
the boom 10 commence the saving season
next spring, whereas there Is unusually
held over nom 10000 600 to $1,000, 900,
III. Ing demand for Texas cattle III Chicago
and Ct. Louis is active and priceaare highly
remunerniive. Good fat becves are In do.
mand, both for bntchering aud Shipping.
Az Indiana farmer who Is feeding abont
iWv cnttle remarks that this open winter
- wvr.n ~ least $3.50 per week to him. Ills
pen OF less than $50 week. wbiie viii,
SHOWS and hcczing weather. their kae,,
"oua stand him at fully 500, with a prob prob