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

DALLAS, November l7.-The facilities of
fered by good wagon roads to the business
interests of any city cannot be over-esti-
mated, and our citizens have ever been for
ward to better the coalition of the roads
leading to this city A little over two years
ago some of our most enterprisng business
men proposed to the County Commissioners
that they would raise by subscription sew
eral thousand dollars to he invested in the
Improvement of the roads if that body
would appropriate from the count, .unds "A
like amount, which proposition wi5 accept
Cd The money was raised by subscription
from few of our business men, VILE, put
their hands in their pockets and paid The
amount offered, and under the supervision
of that accomplished civil engineer, Captain
William Nj. Johnson, all the roads
and bridges in the county leading
to Dallas were put in bettercondtion than
they ever were before or have been since.
In making the generous offer our citizens
were promised that the road should nj.
ways be kept in good order and condition
as when the work was completed. Now we
hear of.complaints from every direction that
the roads are almost impossible, the bridges
swept away or are dangerous to travel, the
render them precarious to teams and
wagons, and in fact the good that was de.
rived by the generosity OF our citizens has
been suffered to waste away through the
neglect or miSapprehension ofour road'oycr-
seers, or want of attention on the part of
those higher in authority. The County
commissioners are now in session, and il
is said their principal business is to look al-
ter roads already opened and to establish
new ones. The business interests of our
city MS well as the convenience of planters
and farmers, demand that the relief asked
Tor IN repairing the roads should no longer
be neglected and that steps will be taken
NJ once, without postpOning action till
some inturc day, to put the roads in all re-
spects IN as good condition as they were
when the citizens of Dallas, by private sub.
scripti0n, expended their money in the i'm.
proyement of the great thoroughhres of the
county for the benefit of city and country
Business to-day has been good both with
the wholesale and retail dealers.
me weather and roads are
improving, but ut this season
OF the year we may expect rains which in
ine present condition OF our roads hinder
and prevent travel over them and curtoil
trade in every way.
Our quotations of all kinds of merchnn.
disc are revised daily and will be found re.
haDle, IL will be seen that staple dry goods
are steady at the low figures which have
governed them during the entire season
Our grocery market is active and we have
no changes to note in prices. There Is
possibility fan advance in meats as thc
markets at all the packing points are firm
with an upward tendency. Grain and pro.
diuce are firm, and while the supply Is nm.
que There is nothing indicative of q change
IN price. The market is well snp.
pied with csculents, and or.
for potatoes, apples and cabbage. We mo.
ticed ON our streets to-day receipts of kront
from France, the first importation of tLis
article ever received in Dallas. IL Is said ia
be superior to that put up in this country.
seasoned with caraway seed cut fine ma
pronounced delicious by those who are fond
oft. Game is getting to be moro plentiful
IN this market. Mr., w. r. Jarrett is in
daily receipt of wild turkeys, quail, prairie
chickens, and other small game shipped
nom the western counties In the Statc
our market is also well supplied with fish,
poth from the Gulf and our own streams in
iyAas. VSuhtry produce is plentiful and
prices are firm for chickens, eggs butter anJ
vegetables. ""'
The. wool market of our CITY 10
ialr for this time of the year, and
prices nave undergone no material chance
From Walter Brown & Co.'S oircnlar ~.
learn the market in Boston Is firm Tor fine |
anu medium grades, and that the market
indicates satisfactory business during the |
next lew months, with values well nnin.
tanned. In Boston, Texas choice northern
Clips sen a. mos average, siCtai choice
the week, 10, pounds, The total sa io
Tor the week. foreirn and do,,a..i s"ios