Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-13
LOCAL MARKETS.


Thcrc Is little change Ia the local markets,
Cotton was a little morc actlNc houo ycslcr.
day, with slight advance Car tiie upper
grades.
Moro hay, corn, oats aud millet came In
yesterday than for several days past, but the
supply did not exceed the demand.
Poultry shows an Increased activity ~
same quotations, with less picking.
beef for Christmas use is now being con.
tRcted Tor, one contract Tor 10 large steers At
~ cents is mentioned. This IN TIVE ruli, &
quotation for corn-fed steers, while grass icd
being SlS6si cents. Corn.fed cows ars quoted
ut ~ aud grass ted ~ = conts,
Tho formation ola lnrgc stock company 70
deal exclusively In qucenswarc la contrm.
plated 10y some of the business men here. The
company win Include those thu, arc already
engaged IN the business. with the facilities
uf this city tHegrntlcmen expect 10 command
u large southern and Western trade,
Railroads have made Fort Worth what she
IL, and our merchants realize tho fact that
to tho railroads she must bo indebted for
what SHE may DO In the future They VIII,
therefore, lend lively and enthusiastic sup.
poit TO those engineering further rail mcili.
Ties.
Gazette, out OF thirty leading railroads whose
earnings for the nrt eleven months are styen
all hut ihrco show u healthy increase oi earn
ingB over tins same period inr lss2,
The Railroad Gazette shows that the grain
receipts of the Southwestern market. lot the
last week reported wore Is per cont. larger
Than for tho corresponding week Of last year,
while the Atlantic receipts were % per cont
al Lon than far I.t M "a .t.L "A
last year, ana smaller than ~ any year aimee
1919.
Up to December In, the interior points no
porting tho heaviest receipts ~ cotton this
year are; Houston, 80, 80. Memphis, sisgs2;
III. Toui., 40, ,oJ and Atlanta, lps.JbS bales.
The ports having tho lara, PSI receipts ibis
year were; New orleans, Ua5,77s; Savannah.
il7,ss5. Galveston, ail,5ys Norfolk, iuo.t0S, aud
Charleston, $500 bales.
The Hcaports having the largest exports
were: New Orleans tOi ~. New York, 49,
02i; Galveston, i6i 90, savannah, lbo,i',,
Charleston. HESS bales.
According Ia the figures of the Times Dem.
ocrat. the Increase IN mileage OF railroads
for The past three years ia s,7bp miles, or one
fourth Of the total increase for the Union.
The record ofprogress In cotton mills shows
years speaking of these figures, the United
states Economist aud nry foods Reporter
sRyai
with regard a. these mills, mn assertion
may be made which will apply TO few or
none al their competitors Ia tho Eastern
states, namely. that they pay 10 To - por
cent. on The capital inyosiod. II this pro.
gfes. should confirm. In this rhilo NerJ long
we thuk Nj. Edward Atkinson viii be-
Obliged 10 change his views respecting
cotton manufactures Ia the houtb.
for. with this splendid showing in the pro
duo'inD uf the cosrscsl cotton goods. II may
be that the Yankees viii have 10 migrate
south with mill machinery aud erect new
mills on neycrmllipg streams which need no
motive power la run Them summer Of win
ter. II docs ,eein remarkable that hputbrfn
mills can mud u ready sale for tiUir products
nj prices 40 very profitable "a 10 enable tho
directors OF Southern factories " declare
such large dividends, while many ~ tho old
weli-estabiished mills OF the Ncw England
states ma II not only very diDicult Ia do
clare any dividend at all, but 10 dispose Of
their goods without rosofilng To the auction
mart surely tiorc Nv something here tina
needs sn nblef mint thaD even tlint Of an
Atkinson 10 investigate. The loom and the
shuttle aud the wheel must 20 nearer "a the
cotton Mold, II seems 10 us. lfiarge dividends
are "a b. kept NJ IA tie fntufe AS ia the past