The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-30
DALLAS BxCHANGE AND COIN.
COMMERCIAL.

DALLAS, November ga few weeks ago
1t was asserted on our streets that number
Cd our business men Of capital had deter
mined to establish packing house in this
city, and that steps would soon be taken to
commence the erection of buildings and
provide the other necessary requirements
TO engage In packing meats ON large scale
since that time II appeers the matter has
entirely died out, or at least no action has
yet been taken, so far as we can learn, to
carry out the intentions of the pro-
jectors. There were two reasons assigned
Why the enterprise might not prove
successful /: one was the scarcity of hogs
and the other was the warm climate of
Texas. The first of these doubts would be
easily overcome, for let II be known that
there would always be a market here for
fat hogs, and It would stimulate our farm
ers to raise them, and in shorter time
than many would now believe. there would
be furnished supply equal to the greatest
demand that might be made for them
There is not State in the Union where
hogs can be raised and fattened as cheaply
as in Texas. In the first place there is every
year an abundance of mast which
would go far towards fattening hogs for
market, and very few weeks feeding on
corn would render them equal to the best
offered in the more northern States,
The warm weather difficulty may be more
serious, but of late years the packing in the
south has been carried on successfully in
the hottest mouths without tho meats sour-
M or damaging in the least. In fact, il ia
-, ,ssce to keep the meats cool is little
there mas expensive than the cost of fuel
theatre wfthe winter. We have now ice
destroyedies here which can furnish
,n,,,orono may be required even
"n'pei".S wintor, and at price very
moving irewhat Is paid for it in st. Louis
have onl,ati,and unless the winter is an ex-
between one, three months can be counted
agsing cold enough for packing pur-
suuVwithout the aid of any ice. Numbers
iogs are shipped by rail from this CITY
very year to Memphis and st. Louis, where
hey are made INTO bacon, hams, lard, etc.
and then brought back here and sold AT n
profit to oil who handle them. The packing
business is one of the most profitable in the
country and we can see no reason why inn
mense returns on an Investment OF This
kind here would not be certainty.
BUSINESS continues active in the whole.
sale line, and shipments of all kinds of
merchandise have been large. The hard
ware trade was never before us heavy M II
is now, and dealers say they have all thew
can handle. Stocks in some lines are got
ting low, and in weekor two ut iarthest
several of our merchantsare going East to-
contract with manufacturers for supplies
Tor the coming year. Sheet iron has adj.
.vanced a half cent and now sells for "a.
There has also been revival in the drug
lire, and sales generally are nearly double
what they were one year
ago. There are few minor
changes TO note in some articles; but as n
general thing prices are steady and firm.
Game Is becoming plentiful and Is selling
at good prices. Eggs have advanced slightly
and all kinds Of country produce Is in de.
msnd. Dry salt meats have declined q
The Grand Saline salt Works, situated
about eighty miles east Of this city, on The
Texas n Pacific railroad. are proving ol
immenso valre TO the lessees. They now
yield about one hundred sucks Of fine saI,
Per day, and II is thought this viii
be Increased to a Thousand sa ~I
uursng the coming year. Thes,
iprings have been utilized
ivr long time and they are seemingly f In
sxnsnsti6le During tho war thew m,ns1liss
nearly all Northern Texas With salt AM