The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-02
Wool AND HIDES.
QUOTATIONS. TODAY.


Fine spring per -, q to 2hc.; medium spring
per b., 20 10 pc Mexican improved per ID n
to lGc.; bury of all grades. ? To Be. oil.
llides--Dry flint, sound and heavy, t. to lie;
ditto light 10 To lie; dry salt heavy, lie. ditto
light ~ To Ice; wet salt, to 7l.2c; green,
butchers, bl'2 tn &C.; all damaged, wet or dry
half price. Dcorshns, 20 " 22o; sheepsklns, IS
o hc; shearliugs o Ia loo
Regarding tho Chicago hide trade, the Shoe
AMI Leather Review OF that city, contains tina
following The hide market continues 10 mount
10 higher range In II way that In ANYTHING but
satisfactory t0thc tanners. but there seems to be
no help for 1t, nv the advance is not speculative,
and can be easily accounted for by the decreased
supply. Taking the first three weeks in August,
for example, lhefcccipts and shipments of hides
have been as follows;
iSSl 1881. 1850
Receipts ..,, S2sSO9s IlO2OSs $500 1873
shipments 900. ,b,t31Nj h,agO, l51 1856. $50
This shows the sales OF hides To be more Than
last year, and nearly double the sales OF 1850
while the receipts are less than half tho amount
for last year. and less even than 1850. II liz easy
~ understand, therefore, why the dealers tall
about small stocks on hand Taking the period
from January Isl To August 2lsL The total TO.
Ccipts and shipments ut Chicago were.
Receipts ..,..il,2S2b iS022. i6i RSS,.2ii
shipments 51,Gs5 PSI I6,SOIiOi SsGG7 NJ
These figures again show the same Increase
In the shipments and decrease In the rpCeipts M
compared with the two former year,. The shin.
mcnts show something like the natural rate of
Increase that would he expected from the
krowth OF the country tributary 10 Chicago aud
the Increase IN the consumption OF leather Tho
receipts, on the contrary. snow fnlllnr or that
~ not renssuring, nnd is calculated To cause n
lcoling OF uucasncss In regard to the future
y We turn 10 the sources Of the supply ot foreign
hides the situation Is oven worse. for uy ~
have already noted, taking the imports nj NV
York MS II basis we hnd the imports Tor the flr,t
seven months OF ISL HS the smallest In five
years The decrease is lgS IOi hides, or nearly
~ yer cent M compared with 1881, aud
NNd3 hides, or nearly 10 pcr cont
Ms compared with 1850 This means n
shortage Of nearly i,0GsOO sides of
leather from last year aud l,7iG.Iii side,
less than 1850. For tho future We can lo,k tn,
no material increase In the supply from south
America, as tho reports of the killing there give
lgurcs triIlc IN excess OF last year, aud less
| inAn lSSO, In regard 10 the domestic SUNNY
ihorc is some dircreucc Of opinion. II is aTptied
that tho high prices oi cattle will bring the aui,
nNls 70 matkct anu That The receipts from An.
gust 10 December ui last year were nearly
| double tho amount for tho hIst seven mouths
| 81 that the receipts for the next four or tyr
months W III make M for any previous Shortage
ON the other hand, II must be remembered thai
msl year was an exceptional one. The long
continued drought aud the failure Of the crup,
| made II Improbable 10 keep cattle aud the r,
was something like Il wholesale slaughter dur
lug the fall months, This year thcre is mn
abundance ot may and grUiu, with prospcc, o
such low rIivos that cattle feeding will be III,
most profitable use to which the produce can il,
put. In addition to this is the mCt that there is
genuine embarrassing fever In all sections of IN,
country, and M Immense demand tor cattle /,
stock new ranges In the west Sales of cattl,
nave also been made irom the "a irugo stock
yards tn local farmers for lucdlug aAd ialtcninr
Mwe have before remarked while this viii n,
IoNbI bring nm incpmcd supply uf cattle Ia In,
| iu,utc' nhd possibly ncNtyvH NJ present. It de
cldediy inictlercs with the regular supply TIM
Wou'u nthtrWle ho available ut this SEA, on
Large shipments of cattle were prom,seJ Ran
lho Northwestern territories, ~ well lis tom
Kansas and colorado hut these tvccipls mr.,
slow IN coming, and It t'uow M open question
whether these sections viii not also iccl In,
vuv's OF lhN oaltlr,raislng fever To such an ,N
tent rs " prevent the anticipated marketing a
| waffle ~ al events, this supply II II doe,
come WIZ handy make NJ for the doNciOuc,
from the other sources