The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-19
PROVISIONS.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS

To-DAYt QUOTATIONS.
BAooN-L0ns clear 'ides isi4c abort clear
lSscs breakfast bacon lssc
DHY sALr-Long clear kideA lie; short clear
HAns-Canvasssd. IS Magnolia Is.
LARD-Tierce Hkc half barrel. hSc; +o-n
cans, l4kc; 0-lb cans. Axe l0-lb cans, l5sc, oil
cana l5hc: Glib cans. l6hc.
There was another decline in provisions II
At saE, but declined on y second cali 10 ri 90
and closed at this last figure, two cents and I
half below the last sales vest, rday. For Novem
Der delivery II sold in the morning at S2i 20 alt
In the evening at t2l o., twenty-five cents de
cline since last evening.
The New York Tribune reports as follow
| some OF the results OF the new system of supply
Ing that city with fresh meat
The market is completely dem0raliasd,
said a prominent wholesale butcher yesterday
to Tribune reporter, by this invasion OF west
| ern dressed beef. OF course the low price 1t Is
sold at is only for the purpose of drawing trade
as tho meat costs them Two or three cents q
pound more than the Chicago people are selling
II for on the hooks The rest OF the butchers
here have had 10 come down correspondingly
In order to get rid of their meat
wholesale butcher in Washington market
| Is losing ten dollars on every carcass he sells
| This morning good meat sold for four and hall
| cents pound or seven cents CHEAPER than II
was 1--WE months ago This state OF things Is
tors worse. Hammond IL Co., the Chicago rivals
of Swift Brothers, who have put their meat on
tho market, intend 10 build refrigerator In this
city and compete with them here for the trade
This win carry prices still lower. until one has
cut the others throat Meantime the retail
butchers are rcaping tat harvest, and the com
| muniiy large get little benefit from the low
wholesale prices for the retail men from whom
they buy steaks and Toasts have not lowered
their prices more than Il cent or two cents 4
pound In the Inst five mpntlg'
Many hundreds of quarters of beef hung in
| tho stalls of the wholesale butchers yesterday
ana the day before, long after the hour when
their meat has usually disappeared, The
butchers all told the same StOry-thev could moi
get rid OF their meat unless they sold ut heavy
loss. Some denied that the western beef was
as good as that killed in this city but the major
lily acknowledged that 1t was good beef The
retail men said II was better for having been
Killed SO long. The western beef was from Col
orado and Texas cattle that would dress zoo
pounds apiece, while the beef meat sold in this
market would dress 10 pounds Yet the vas,
demand for Texas beef In this city had to be
supplied, Ms well ns the demand for the best
beef ltwasreporlcd in the cattlc.yards ut Jersey
cry and SiNty-tllth street that II consultation of
me principal dealers in catte in this market In,
ciudlhg II. &. Eastman, Stern X Mctzger. and
schwafNchild ~ Sul6berger, had been held to
lake some action in regard 10 the price of meat.
The report could not be confirmed r. Abbott
tho manager of the swift Brothers, was seen at
the new refrigerator and asked IL he had re-.
celyed additional supplies of beef iiom the
west.
I'VE received COO quarters Yesterday he
snid, and have more on the road. AS 10 what
the butchers around here say about our sales
only being an advertisement, lot them wait and
see, We are here 10 stay We are not trying to
nnderscll anybody. or competing against any.
body. but we want TO sell little beef. The
meat has been killed FIVE days, and is MS good as
any meat In this market. Swift Brothers have
about 800 branch houses throughout the coun-
try, and run over 100 refrigerator cars of their
own. They have finally come to New York, and
we propose to sell little beef lint II the public
want to be benefited the retail men will have 10
come down some ,"