The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-07
HARDWARE.

THERE has been a great improvement in the
hardware trade of this city during the present
season, and orders are coming in from all d.
TsctSns ysFy freely ALREADY on. dallas as
the best markets for hardware in
the country. Our merchants have I'll, most
favorable freight arrangements, and they assert
positively that they can place their goods IN any
locality on railroads in this state soas TO cost III
purchaser less than II shipped from any other
point in the west or south. These facts are be-
coming generally known, and country mer,,
chants soon take advantage of the benefits and
facilities to be found in Dallas and 1t is from
this cause more than any other that our city IS
enjoying her heavy trade in this line of goods.
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS.
Axes-Callins', per Dozen $50: Gold Dollar,
per dozen, 500; Diamond Edge, per dozen,
Shovels and spades-Rowland's discount so
per cent Ames' list steel goods, discount 40 and
10 per cent
Rubber belting-Discount so per cent
NailS-L25 rate.
Horse shoes-575 per key.
Horse nnils-NorthwesIern, No, T. $780, No. s,
5.25 per box
lron-iC rate.
stcel--plow, &c; lay, &c; cast 1sc per pound.
Sheet irOn-2I b, &c; galvanised, discount so
per cent.
skillets and lids, sc per pound; sugar kettles,
sc per pound,
Sad irons-i Lee per pound
TaCks-in boxes, 100 papers, l so per box.
Grub hoes-per dozen 800; railroad picks,
per Dozen 900
MattoCks-per dozen, HOO
scaeS-Fairbanks, discount 25 per cent.
| Howe, discount 25 per cent.
Tin plate-l. C., l1xlA per box, 500; l. G., AK
| 90 per box, S 90; Ferne, 1lx20, per box, z so;
| Ferne 2OX2S, per box, 1850
Tinware-pieced, discount so per cent.
| stamped discount 40 per cent
solder-No, /, loo; No IL and L. 1Sc per
| pound.
Rabbit metallic to l5c per pound
Bar lead-7 lie per pound.
| No, duck horse collars 25 per Dozen
fames-two loop, i.25 per dozen; three loop,
| i.b0 per dozen.
Trace chains-6 10, s, Q 4sc per pair.
| Back bands-thrce inch, rs per dozen.
| Clevses-9c per pound.
| The WOrkmcn employed in the Iron and nail
mills throughout the country being on strike
| for higher wages, prices for these staples have
advanced quite sharply. Bal-iron, which has
been selling ut 81 so to go has been raised to So,
| and nails, which were recently sold at S,25,
have advanced to IS. so rates. the supply being
| consderabl" reduced here and elsewhere.
| The iron interest is face TO face with despe-
| rate strike by the amalgamated workmeu. AT
| St. Louis the Laclede mills and the Iiclmbacher
forge shut down, and the bolt Compauy's force
quit work, by which 1000 men are idle The
same number have ceased labor at the Bay View
shops, at Milwaukee. A payroll of s25,O0l per
month Is suspended by the rolling mill at Erie.
|
struck at Sieubenvlle Ohio, and the Central
| rolling mill at Louisville is closed. With one
| exception, all the iron works about Wheeling
| have shut down throwing out of employment
| 5000 men, Two rolling. mills at lronton, Ohio,
refused to pay an advance and nearly 900 men
are idle Only one iron mill in Pittsburg is run
| ming, and that only TO fiji important contracts
In Cincinnati nearly all the mills have ceased
operations.
| There are abundant supplies of copper ore in
California and other Pacific states and territories
but there ure no smelling works to turn this
| product into bar copper. The Only copper ore
deposits now worked In California to any extent
are those at Spenceyille Nevada county, where
| the best that is done is to manufacture a copper
cement for shipment to the east 1t would seen
that there was good field somewhere on the
| Pacific coast for tlrst-class smelling works fol
copper ores. Boston capitalists now control thi,
| trade in America through their ownership IL
Lake superior michigan mines. Great Britain
gets most of its copper from Chilli. The price o.
Chill bars in the English market in 1877 was CT,
los From that figure the quotation descended
to f5S l5s in August 1879. At that time tn,
stocks in Liverpool, Swansea London ant
| llayre, and atloat for those ports was CT, AZ
tons That was the lowest figure reached in 4
number of years. In less than six months
thereafter, when the stocks were substantially TIN
same, the price rose to Ga. 1T has not been 5,
high since, and last July fell to f5S los. On Jan
uary !, 1881, the price was Gil and the stock a
the above ports and en- route was 900 tons