The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-25
COMMERCIAL.
HERALD OTriCx,

This being Saturday, MS usual our trade has
been active, andin a retail way business has
been lively. Our wholesale trade is beyond all
precedent, and'dealers are buoyed up with the
increased orders aud salos that are daily msde
in this city Few persons outside Of Dall's
have any ldos of the immonsity OF tho Joboing
trade Of Dallas
Prices have not changed materially, ara
our city still maintains her prestige oil being
tho lowest iobhing marketin the south rev
customers ARE being added daily to the trade
aud our dealers are compelled to increase IheIr
stocks aud orders tosmeet tbs demsnds II s1S
upon them forgoods.
I'm the eastern markets spring WOODEN goo'b
are In demand by the clothing trade Co'"h
goods move steadily and prices ale
strong Popperell aud Laconia goous nave
advanced one cent, as have black prints ana
rolled aconeis.
In deugs this has been busy week In
Dallas A few articles have advanced In q o
east. hut prlces here have not altered. opium
oamphor, glycerlne, morphine, turrsAthe o.
lard oil, castor Oil, and other oils have gone
ND alule In eastern markets, which may sheet
the prices here later IN the season.
Potatoes are getting few cents higher in
this market, aud ~ tho crop north has been
greatly injured by the drouth, prices may
aoon advance hero. We quote Michigan at
81 co per bushel. The market iswell tuppled
with onions and cabbage. The former Ia worth
about FIVE dollars per barrel, ana cSpDsGe
b-lngs seven dollars per crate
There Ia n great scarcity Of lemonS ana
oranges all over the country, The Malaga
crop is now coming in but they are of an nie-
rlor quality, being hard aud green ami OF
thicker skin. The season for lemons In TINS
COUNTRY ia between December lrSt ana
My nr8t, when siclly oranges
aud lemons are always plentiful, and
when prices are lowe,t. The season IN Flor-
d. and Lousipua has been unfGyorEblo nd
good market lie expected for oraugea,
The stock of lara In New York Is reported Mt
g., 500 tierces against 1913 terce one gear ago
It Is believed now that the oil wells ale
gradually, becoming exhausted, and the re-
csipts'wlll gradually decline, notwithstand-
Ing tho new discoveries which are being
made The production, which at one time
reached 50, 600 por day, has decreased lately 10
G5,O0O barrels. The average daily tTanssc'l'ss
in the. New York Exchange are RON W'o'V TO
40 600 barrels but during the recent excitement
they reached o. high as so, zoo barrels In Oh
Cty last Monday the ssles were 2,bis,OOO baf-
rels, The late rise was caused manly by
speculators uuder the belief that the p'odUc-
tlon IN the Bradford region would iall ana
fears of tires by reason Of the drouth. Refined
oil lsnow worth In eastern markets l-2 10
Z "a cents,
Toe wool trad, Of our city is Higher, but
prcrs are we'll ma,....ncd In Boston bugi-
ne,, in wac, 3, rearly suspended, but the de-
mald continue il- all Gre'ca'
Tho lumber lraue OF the city continues &C.
tive, aud sales are $50 heavy th't 1t ia
almost Impossible for dealers to
keep on hands a fol supply Of all grades and
dimensions, la the northern pnerlee' stocks
are Ing hauled longer distance thiS cen
son than ever before, and ina year or TWO
prices wiz advance to cover this expense
There are In rough figures 10000 square miles
of timbored lands In this country, OF which
AsO. 600, ornearIy two-thlrds are situated In the
sou .hern states. with the exception OF por-
tlon Of west Texas. ncarly oil the south
heavily wooded.
Quotations FOR RAILROAD iron ao h'onuiS !"
ore.slng and =. the demandlis still In excess
otthe supply. The rolling mills nre all M
c,easing their facilities, and on the com
pletlon of Improvements In hand, VIII be
able 10 turn out steel rails to lay $4,000 miles
per annum.
,AThe pecan crop Ia beginning to attract
attention: of buyers abroad, and 1t Ia said
there are already agents In the south arrang-
Ing for all the crop that may como into the
markets.
In Texas may be found somo OF the best pot
terry clay In the world, and some day II Will
prove n great source OF revenue to the state.
According to tho present census there are
about lOi pottery establishments In this ooun-
try,wlth $40 kins $4,000, 900 oapilal6, 800 hands
receiving g., 200, TOO wages, and yielding sa,-
OOOOOo products.
Themackerel catch along the New England
coast lssaid tobe large. The h,h il an im-
p,rtant factor In the food supply OF the
world. ,,,
The receipts to-day reache fully three hus-
drsd and llfty bales. The demand was good,
and themarket active. Prices remained nriu
ut last quotations;
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