The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-14
COMMERCE AND TRADE
CONiAiEROIAL

DALLAS, september 10 ~Euiioi hsNNho
Please state IL you can, whore house OF sum
Client diminsions for wholesale business can DO
rented IN desirable locality In Dallas, ileniy
OF houses could probably DO found. but lhey arc
barely large enough for retail purposes. anu
where could procure II dwelling oil SIX OF eight
rooms 10 live in, tSVulhiM
Tho gentleman who wrote the above was pro-
badly feeling little funny, or he would not
have propounded such conumdrums TO the HER
AID We give them up Hut sui the enquiry
Is worthy OF serious consideration. The tru III is
that parties owning PROF erty on the principal
business streets Of this city arc disposed 10 erect
small rooms which they can tcnt NJ low inquire,
while larger houses with ample facllues ior mo
Transaction OF heavy businesses, are the eNccp-
tlon 10 the rule II IL asserted that several par.
ties, who have visited this city during me ihst
SIX months, with view TO engaging III nhsiilets
here, have been detained from doing so because
they could not secure rooms large enough
10 accommodate their wants, 1t Is also
true that others have come here with their iami'
lies aud have been compelled To seek other
localities because dwelling houses were not TO
DO had in coed situations No better invest.
meut for money eau be found than erecting
large business houses for tho aoComiuod aton OF
the wholesale trade and dwellings OF capac ty
sufficient for the wants OF gentlemen with mod.
crate sized families. The time IL fast approach
ingwhen the small houses on the principal bust.
ness streets must give way to larger structures.
md the longer this change Is delayed, the
longer will bo tho best business Interests of the
city be retarded. Property owners should also
erect u better class of dwellings for rent than
has been the case In tho past and more Of them.
The growth Of Dallas should not be hindercd
and business contracted for tho want OF proper
and more capacIous business houses.
on CuASGR
There is beginning 10 DO good enquiry for
com and ms the sCnsOn advances the demands
will Increase. This fine weather Is having the
effect to open cotton, and hands 10 gather corn
viii DO scarce and hard to ind. In fact there
are agents here now securing all the labor posi-
bio for csouthorn.coun,ies of the state, where.
In q week from this date every man. woman
ind child who can pick cotton VIII find ample
work aud ut good prices, rho cotton will nc
doubt he picked before tho corn Is gathcrcd,and
prices for tho latter cannot decline until 1t IL
Offered more freely on the market There was
were some offerings fonts, and good sample
OF fall rust proof was offered nj "a cents but tho
highest price bid for II was i2ls cents, Take 1t
all In oil, the transactions on the Exchange To-
day were rather few, which may In u measure
be attributed " the light arrivals Of grain In the
city,
TIlr prices for grain on the Exchange to-day
wore as follows Wheat gOG9b@sl0J, as por
quality Oats, for spring, SCg3S fall, for feed,
In lhlick, S5oDiO; shelcd d. old, In chr, co. old
sholled, In sacks, 7a@S0. Barley In sacks, 10.
Rye, Texas In sacks. S5@yO northern, si.O0.
Mlllet seed, little, J0eG65; German, SgGGVi In
store in small lots higher price is asked.
The dispatches received vt the Exchange to-
day from St Louis, up IN 1910 y, m, were M
follows for grain September wheat ON; Ocio.
ber, QSis6Ig5A september corn, COZ; October,
6oh. september oats. nothing done October
cats, S0s.
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