The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-18

The increase Of agricultural products was
nearly one hundred per cent. in these ten
years. And in the last year of this de-
cade from 1879 to 1850 out of this vast
increase of our crops and products, our cat
tie exports rose from $4,000 to $4,000
600; corn from $i3,0O00O0 to $50,00O,000;
wheat from Sl67 SOS, 600 to $190, $4,000; flour
from S35,OO0,000 TO Si5,0O0,000; cotton from
500, $4,000 to $2i5, 1884, 39l; beef from
100000 to $l200O,OOO; lard from $4,000.
900 to $35, 1900, and pork from 5000, 900
to $S,000,0O0
The importation of live stock and fresh
meat over the Atlantic was never so active
as at present. The Iowa, Victoria, the
Toronto, the Manitoba, the Campania, the
Bulgaria and the Mississippi landed in one
week alone, recently, at Liverpool, among
them G2lO head of live stock for butchers
purposes, while seven other steamers landed
5,0S2 carcasses of frozen beef, and over 600
carcasses of mutton. These carcasses, pur-
chased IN America for cents per pound,
were sold s0r 10 cents per pound.
The BUSINESS of the manufacture of cigars
and tobacco of all kinds gives employment
to over four thousand people of both sexes
in Chicago. In the manufacture of cigars
alone there are 5j3 factories, employing
2,SH persons, of whom $50 are males and
LII fem ales, The others are employed by
the four large tobacco factories and in the
twenty-nne stores, where only smoking,
chewing and leaf tobacco Is kept.
The fur business Of Maine amounts 10
over 800, 900 year. The bulk of tho fur
is furnished by professional trappers, who
work near the headwaters Of the Andres
coggn, Kenncbcc and Penobscot. There
are hundreds of men in Maine who support
their families by bunting, trapping and
fishing.
1t is estimated that in the course of the
next ten years over 10000 miles of railway
will be built west of the Missouri river, and
connecting with the Pacific coast and the
northern States of Mexico,
The distil6rs of Peoria have used 53l ,205
bushels Of grain, producing ,S67 ,OG967 gal
Ions Of proof spirits during the month OF
October, This is Il larger showing than any
| other district in the United States.
A farmer in Henry county Indiana, real
! ilcd 800 from the watermcIons raised this
! season on two acres OF swamp land,
COTTON.
The receipts to-day would run up to
nearly four hundred bales, some of which
were stored by planters in expectation of
higher prices. The market was active, but
prices remain unchanged. There are good
orders here both from Eastern spinners and
Europe, but the limit put upon them will
not admit of figures above our quotations.
The weather has been favorable
for picking in the last few
days, and planters are taking
of 1t to gather what yet remain in the fields.
5000 ORDINARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Us
Low muunnS ,,,U.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ~
mluullng ;;..''''''' '''''' '''''''''''''''' Tvs
u9,u mluuIllg IVA
Mido.ing fair. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL
The New Orleans Democrat is jublant
| over the business done in cotton in that
city. 1t says: "Now what do our New
| York friends think of our Cotton-market?
Are the assertions we made some time since
that we We're to be the greatest cotton cen
| tire ofthe world facts, or mere vain boasts?
Indeed, we can scarcely realize the position
ourselves Just to think oft The sales of
futures 10000 bales in one day and / ,i2S,-
400 bales since September to date, against
| l,392, 800 bales at the same time last wear;
and the sales ofspots $4,000 bales thus far,
against 29S,9I0 at the same time last year;
and to crown it all, none of our Cotton FIX
change stock to be had in the market, even
at 5000 per share. Really our cotton pco-
pie have every reason to congratulate
themselves ON the present position and fu-
tire outlook
The Department of State has issued an
exhaustive statement of the cotton goods
trade of the world, giving the report ofi6
consuls and other interesting information.
The raw product OF the several countries is
estimated at about $500, 600 pounds, viz:
| United States, 277O,0c0,0OO; East Indies,
100000; Egypt, Smyrna, etc, 300 900.
900; Brazil ll,OOO000, and West Indies, 49,
100000. These figures show that the Uni
ted state produces nearly iour-tilths of the
cotton crop of the world and that it is be.
yond the productive power of any other
| ~ ~ Il NOT ,sttl al -
in this direction.
| Mr.. Edward Richardson, of Mississippi, is
the greatest cotton raiser in the world, and
has amssscd an immense fortune, now
estimated ut from Sl5,000,0O0 to $2O, OOO, 600.
lie not only raises cotton, but gins,
spins and wcaves it, is large dealer, and
has oil mills as well. He owns some
5000 acres of land and last year raised
over 1000 bales of cotton--a greater mum.
Der than the khcdive of Egypt, who is the
next largest cotton raiser in the world. The
$4,000 pounds of seed cotton which he an
nually gets from his land are ginned by his
own gins. The seed, which is ordinarily
worth not more than So ton, is ground and
pressed for the oil. The bulls are used for
fuel in the process, and the ashes sold and
used for fertilizers. From ton of seed he
obtains SO gallons of oil, worth 80 cents n
gallon-Sl2,25. The cake remaining after
the oil is pressed out is worth rather more
for feed or MS n fertilizer than the seed
itself, selling readily for home use or shin. |
ment to England at SO to 81 ton. Each |
ton of cotton seed, therefore, nets rather
more than 500 Mr.. Richardson's mills nj
Corinth receive and manufacture n LARGE |
part of his crop, and another profit is added |
on the sales of yarns and shectingS, drill. |
lings, cottonades, etc.
New York spots opened firm and closed |
steady sixteenth higher; middlinrs
IL 1916, Sales, 1924.
In New Orleans spots opened and closed |
firm, without change in price; middhngs
liz. Sales, $3.50.
Tho Galveston market closed firm; mid. !
dlings, lls, Sales, 200; receipts, s,i07.
The st. Louis market closed firm for
spots; middlings, lli; low middlings. III.
good ordinary, lOs Receipts, 2,S53: shin,
ments, 1885, sales, 2,015; stock on hand,
56,06S,
The cotton market in Liverpool was
steady; middlings, 60l6; Orleans, 6ll.l6.
Sales, 1900, of which 9,OWwerc American.
Receipts, 800, of which only 800 were
American. Sold for export, 8, 600 bales.
Thecotton movement shows that the nett
receipts at all the ports We're les, 03i, against
1875 400 the same time last year being y
falling off of - i65 bales. The cxnorts 10
Great Britain were 5S,Oii, Franco i,SD5,
continent $1,000, channel ports 1910. Stock
on hand S05,6iS, against S2o,2 same time
last year.
FUTURES.
The future market did not show any
marked change since yesterday. They
were n few points higher both in New York
and New Orleans, and both markets. closad