The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-03

growing pine apples for market for the past
ten years, and claims to realize from 500
to 81 800 per acre therefrom.
According to the last census the outlay
for building an repairing farm fences dur
ing 1873, in eleven southern and southwest
ern states aggregated Sl3,S5,Il6.
The report OF the production Of the
Bradford. Pennsylvania, oil field for the
month of September, shows that the de-
crease during the month was the greatest
ever known in any oil field, except perhaps
Bullion. As compared with August the
daily decrease was ,267 barrels.
COTTON.
There were only about ore hundred bales
of cotton received here to-day, and themar
ket was not at all animated. Prices under
went no change, and buyers did not exhibit
any great anxiety. The rain last night
prevented the receipts being us large as
other days in the week. We quote
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There are now held in this city about
seven thousand bales of cotton in anticipa-
ton of an advance. One gentleman holds
twelve hundred bales, another about one
thousand, another six hundred, and so on
down to ten or twelve bales. Now these
gentlemen. no doubt, believe that the sta
ppie will advance materially but Others who
have spent n lifetime in tue trade thlnk
differently. lit be true, as il is .~ssserted,
that nearly seventy-iive per cent. of tue
crop is withheld from market, and Liver
pool spinners, who do not believe that the
crop of the world is far below that of 1890
refuse to buy our cotton at prices about
what they are now, and purchase heavily
OF the India crop, the expected advance
may never come. The reports Of short crops
have created speculative demand, and this
speculative mania has extended to the
planters themselves II Is to be hoped that
cotton viii advance, for the higher the
price the better it will be for all classes in
the south, but when spot cottons arc held,
the interest money, storage, drayage and
warehouse charges will of themselves alb
sorb about all the profits a reasonable rise
in the market might bring to the owners.
We offer no opinion or advice in regard to
holding cotton, but give Just such facts as
come before us from most reliable sources
movement appears to be on foot ut pre-
sent tending toward packing cotton into
smaller bales, somewhat like the quarter
bales of hay now frequently seen. 1t is said
that northern spinners particularly express q
desire for cotton so packed urging that they
are easier to handle, that they pack.better in
the freight cars, and that in inClement
weather, which renders immediate removal
from an exposed situation necessary, these
small bales can be sheltered much quicker,
rs they can be carried, and are therefore not
so liable as heavy bales to become injured
by being rolled through mud and water. A
press specially designed for making these
small bales, is now on exhibition at the
Atlanta exhibition, for which it is claimed
that l35 pounds of cotton can be compressed
into bale thirty inches long, twelve inches
wide and fifteen inches thick II is also
claimed that railroad ear can carry much
! greater weight Of the small than ofthc Ordi-
nary sized bales.
New York spots closed quiet, with no
change in prices. Mddlings H. Sales
| ,l0l bales.
In New Orleans the market closed steady
at AN eighth of of Yesterdays quotations.
Middlings ia. Sales 5000 bales.
The Galveston market was steady, with
out change, Middlings II. Sales 1910
receipts 1894 bales
st, Louis spots closed quiet but steady.
MiddlinGs III Receipts / ,3il shipments
1880
The Liverpool market closed quiet. Mid
ding 6s Orleans q. Sales 10000. of which
400 were American, Receipts $3.50
bales,
The nett receipts at all ports for five days
were 1868 against l5i,iiS for the same
time last year. Exports to Great Britain,
SOD; France, $50; continent $50 chan
mel ports, none. The stock on hand was
lsi707. Last year for the week the stock on
hand was 70i, 27l, and when full receipts fol
the present week are known, they will prob
ably be as large. Last year the receipts
at all the ports for the dates of the coming
week were very large, and the prob
abilities now are they will greatly exceed
those of this year, owing to the larg,
amount now being held by spectators
and others for an advance in prices.
FUTURES.
Futures to-day were generally quiet with
out much variation in prices. In New
York for January they declined about one
point, and in New Orleans they advanced
about the same There was no material
change in Liverpool. II would be difficult
to say what turn they may take in the next
few days, rs II is almost too early in the
month for the "ringsters" to commence
squeezing" either the bulls" or the
'bears"
NEW, loRE, November Futures closed
steady Sales 1900 bales
TODAY YESTERDAY
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