The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-01


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DALLAS, November GA few weeks ago
it was asserted on our streets that number
of 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 a1arge scale.
Since that time it 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.
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 it be known that
there would always be a market J., c for
fat hogs, and it would stimulate our larin-
ers to raise them, and in a shorter time
than many would now believe, there would
be furnished supply equal to the greatest
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 months without the meats sour
ing or damaging in the least. In fact, 1t is
said the ice to Keep the meats cool is little
if any more expensive than the cost of fuel
required in the winter. We have now ice
manufactures here which can furnish
all that may be, required, even
in an open winter, and at price very
little above what Is paid for it in st. Louis
or Cincinnati, and unless the winter is an ex-
ceptional one, three months can be counted
on as being cold enough for packing pur-
poses without the aid of any ice. Numbers
of hogs are shipped by rail from this city
every year to Memphis and st. Louis, where
they are made into bacon, hams, lard, etc.,
and then brought back here and sold at
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 weuld not be a certainty.
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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 as heavy as il
is now, and dealers say they have all they
can handle. Stocks in some lines are get
ting low, and in week or two at farthest
several of our merchants are going East TO
contract with manufacturers for supplies
for the coming year. Sheet iron has adj
vanced half cent, and now. sells for 81.
There has also been a revival in the drug
line, and sales generally, are nearly double
what they were one year
ago. There are few minor
changes 70 note in some articles; but as a
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-
mand. Dry salt meats have declined a
half cent.
THIS Grand ssiine salt Works, situated
about eighty miles east of this city, on the
Texas a Pacific railroad, are proving Of
immense value 10 the lessees. They now
Weld about one hundred sacks of fine salt
per day, and Il is thought this will
be increased 70 thousand sacks
during the coming year. These
for long time and they are seemingly in
exhaustible. During the war they supplied
nearly al Northern Texas with salt. and
hundre Of people, men, women and
children. camped there, with pots and
kettles. boiling the water and making salt
IOr IIleIT own Use anu lllt Use VI the army.
FRon all points in the West where sheep
raising has received attention comes the
news that the wool and
mutton interests are experiencing unprece-
dented prosperity, There Is certainly
general revival in the trade. and there i also
a growing tendency 20 improve the hpcks.
American wool now completes with that Of
other countries. and. while Il IL doubtful
that this county can this year supply the
demand Of home consumers, the fact that
a foreign market has been made for Amer
can wool viii spur breeders 70 renewed
exerfions.
A Bo-ton dispafch 10 the DrOvers' Jour
nal, dated November 2fth, says: For the
week now ended so cattle and GO sheep
have been exported. together with Z3U
quarters ~ beef The cattle market il
dow At sFa7 Dor good 10 extra. Sheep
trade weak II ic decline. and rEiieeraf0r
rcrr plentiful and selling low"
HnTana adrices received today say the /
exports Of Tobacco and cigars from Havana
IN 1ss0 amounted 20 n - bales 81 tobacco
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md 10 ZIf.f77 cirars IN ls79. and IA 20 /
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