The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-24
COMMERCIAL.


value of property in any city de-
ponds alone on the amount and
extent of its business transactions,
1t has been too often the case in the South
and the West, and particularly, in mining
districts, that towns and even cities have
sprung into existence without possessing
the outside business and support required
to maintain their growth and advancement,
and they have gone down amid the crash
and wreck of all other over-confident and
selfimportant would-be metropolises. 1T
is only the sturdy and lusty growth that
makes the permanency of any city. And IN
this connection we can with pride speak
of Dallas. She has never entered upon
any .ephemeral advancement, but
has maintained a gradual growth, until
now she has become the most important
city in North Texas, if not of the whole
State. 1t is only necessary to refer to the
real estate transfers, which are published
weekly in the HERALD, to learn the demand
there is for good business property in our
city, and the healthy advance in price which
has characterized sales in the last two
years. We do not mean by this, that prop
erty has gone beyond its intrinsic value, but
that.it has, like in all growing and prosper
Gus cities, acquired valuation commensur-
ate with the business and growth of the
city. Only this and nothing more. Prop
erty now on Elm street, west of Sycamore
is thought to command good figures, but it
would not be unreasonable to predict
that real estate in East Dallas will be worth
in five years more than it is now selling for
in the heart of the business part OF the city.
Business has been active to-day and sales
and shipments have not declined below the
average for the past three months. Prices
are steady and unchanged in any line.
There is now a good enquiry for cattle,
sheep and hogs for the butchers trade. The
receipts lately have hardly been equal to
the demand. The exchanges are generally
bare of butchering stock
In answer to the inquiry, "What was the
highest price paid for mess pork during the
war and since?" In July. 1864, mess pork
sold at $44 per barrel The highest price
paid since then was in August, 1869, when
It brought $3.50. Since 1870 the top was
reached in September, 1874 at SO,
That much abused animal, the. hog
strange as it may seem, is the most valuable
element in our foreign export trade, leading
all other animal products in value by over
$50, 600, Co., The value of the hog products
for the commercial year 1881 is placed at
Sl05, 794, 23l, against $S6,075,77S in 1880.
The production of oysters has more than
York harbor, Staten Island, and Perth
Amboy during the past five years; Car
loads Of oysters are shipped to California
from New York every few days. The
"native" oyster of that western coast is OBJ
tanned in the Gulf of California, and is
small and of copper taste. There is as wide
a contrast between the California bivalve
and the Eastern as between crab.apple and
and Rode Island greening. Something
of supply is being obtained on the Oregon
or Washington territory coast. These are
better than the more southern. ~
Total value of the exports of domestic
provisions, tallow and dairy products dur
ing the ten months end' octooer 81, Sd5i'-
72s, 221; same ten months in 1880, $ll5, 93l,-
9l9. The total values of the exports of pro-
visions and tallow for the twelve months
ending October 81, 1881, were $ll9, l125l5;
twelve months in 1880, St13,911 las. The
total value of the exports of dairy products
in the six months ending October 81, 1881,
were Sl3, $40, 430; same period in 1850, Sl6,-
49l $40.
Bituminous coal, said TO equal the best
Cumberland has been discovered in El Paso
county Reports from the new coal mines
% miles above Laredo, OIL the Rio Grande
represent that the Texas-Mexican Road has
made contract 10 have coal put upon the
surface at Sl.25 pei, ton. II is thought
that coal cam an be delivered at any point
in Texas alo. 1the railway, at ffom $500 to
IS 90 per ton.
The supply of buffalo, COW and antelope
bones in Taylor and adjoining counties
seems to be inexhaustible. The shipments
from Abilene alone are enormous, one
dealer Unless than three months shipping
over one thousand tons. The bone trade OF
that place is considerable in its aggregate
business, being eagerly sought. after by
bone dealers, and find ready sale at from
$40 to 81 per ton.
Last year the German wire mills supplied
England with $1,000 tons Of wire, and Rus
sia with &C, 600 tons. France received from
Germany from 1900 TO 1900 tons Of steel
wire for sofa springs, and America not less
than 10000 from the same source.
In 1875. 5000 tons OF iron supplied the
annual demand for iron in and about Chi
cago: at the present time the annual con-
sumption amounts 10 10000 tons, an in
crease Of ID, 600 tons In six years.
COTTON.
wssHINGTos, November 1.-THE follow
ing statement, showing thecondition Of the
cotton, corn and wheat crop, was issued at
the Department Of Agriculture:
COTrox-Returns Of November from
ten principal cotton-growing States
give Indications Of a yield per acre
Considerably less than lest year
The drouth. which was the cause
in all sections, was the most severe In the
states west Of the Mississippi, and the re-
ported decrease in those States .is thirty
three per cent. IN LOUISIANA. f0rfy per cent
in Texas, and nearly sixty per cent. in Ar
kansas. North Carolina, on the Atlantic
coast. makes returns Of thirty per cent. less
Weld than in 1850. South Carolina, Geor-
Ria and Mississippi report better condition
and the Prospects are for q crop not much
below that Of last year. In these states the
weather il reported AZ having been favor
be during the month, and the prospect OF a
fair TOP crop was good
Florida reported decrease Of l5per cent.
Alabama an increase Of - Ter cent, Ten
nessae a decrease q y per cent Virginia 4
not i cluded a. cotton state, its product
being insignificant
The Neu Orleans Democrat IL jubilant
over the business done in cotton In That
city. II s-ys. Now what do our New
YORK friends think Of our c0ttOn-market7
Are the ssserti0ns we made some time since
thaf We we're - be the Ereatest cotton cen
fre 81 he void flcts. OF mere vain Dolsfsl
In1ced re can sc1-ctlr realize The position
crr-.Ires. JUS ~ think 81 i The sales q
future l10 90 IrIes in one d1r and l.4-1.-
80 bale a1ce 11rtenber ] % date, egninst
~ - i1les II he same time last year
ard fi.e s1Ie- n SPOTS $500 bales tins ~.
arafr.f - SO r. The same time Last Te-r-
"a ~ .|-1En = nIl. none q our Cotton Er-
chans1 s.ocE ~ be hal u The 1narket' fren
= tr b. I|er snare. Really or cotton l.l1-
r1t have ever rt1on ~ c1nErat1l1te
fIerIs rts 81 tlIt Trtsent T1sltion n11 n
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