Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-30
FINANCE AND COMMERCE
Notes.

The wholesale merchandise markets are
active, house and order trade being good, ana
the jobbing houses are well employed, lse
sales of some lines OF goods being fally up 10
the ability of the houses TO bill aud pack.
Canned goods are looking up and stiilenning
somewhat, though no marked change in
price has taken place. Short clear bacon has
advanced &c, while Royal patent -four has
declined cents per barrel. Butter is iiriner
and a good dcl&and exists. win eggs rrin
aud in good request. The cotton mark Twas
unusually lively, over 1869 bales of the sta.
pie having been received; the prices, how
ever, unchanged, and shipments are only
moderate.
An Ottawa, Ont, dispatch says: "yhe
prospect ola short Wheat crop in Ontario has
led the Dominion millers' association to call
II special meeting for the purpose OF urging
The COVE rnmentto reduce the duty on wheat.
The association holds that the present duty
on wheat Is so much ont of proportion To- the
duty on -four that American mllers have an
advantage of coca barrel.'
The imports of foreign merchandise atthe
port of New York during the past week were
OF fairly satisfactory proportions, the entries
of'bnth general merchandise and dry goods
being about equal to q Iull averagc. The to-
tai Is S9,e52,0ll, OF which S6Nsl.56 represent
general merchandise and the renuiuder 80 :
&i,iih) dry goods. Precious stones, hides, tin
and India rubber have been received In con-
siderable quantity, and sugar and coffee have
also been coming In 10 Iair extent since
January the imports aggregate ti89.39S 99j,
compared with sG72, i7f,i5S FOR the correspond
ing period OF lSs2
up the Michigan lumber business IS follows;
"rhe present size and swift growth OF me
lumber industry of Michlgan as shown by
statistics, are most sta Ting. Twenty years
ago few hundred million feet OF LUMBER
We're cut in the state; now the annual product
Is one-quarter that of our whole country, ana
reaches more than 4 0 o., i,r0) fee,. cut IN
boards twelve inches wide and one inch u Tex
the yearly product would suffice FOR double
board fence, with the pests sixteen n t,me'
for a city OF 100000 Inhabitants, and would
en- III year load some 800 miles of cars.
The Memphis cotton-seed mills, viii n, ow-
ing to n lack of the seed, are operated Only
four or five months annuity, are TO be con-
solidate AS IL is, they are unable 10 pay
cotton growers enough TO snip the seed, ana
much OF IL is nsequently uAed Tor ierui-
iZins PURPOSES. BY canSo idating, the mill.
owneis hope 30 raise the price OF the OIL ana
to pay producers such prices as wiil Keep lhe
VIII Street Ncps, Ia the carly daysof rail
70 aiding In Missouri, stXfoot stranger. WIN
n bad look III his eye, one day entered "a
zion on the BLANK 4 Dash ronu, pnllee GU
ten shares of stock in the ompanY, and IN
qulred OF the station m ister II there We're
any dividends on the stoes. aever Ieira o.
Try to coliec divtdends?p III they ulu tney
didn't get anything this stock ought 70
my ten per cent" continued the stranger.
hHere's sitO). Ten per cent. a year woula he
a.. ITe held these shares three months,
which would be $50. Paroner, want ny
wy WY ;,nst So to 81. Louis. roo fur away
I'm going 10 collect here and save time. I'll
grim. count out my divyl" The above poro-
ration was followed by the sight OF SIX
shooter and nm oxpresslo which meant bus
ines. and the agenJ didn't consume three
minutes counting out the money, when lhe
stranger took aud walked out, Win the &
mark that he never in vested in any Stock
paving tess than tfn per cent, and didh ne
iieve ii cumulative Il iy!dends.
This was the only dividend paiu pV lhtt
road Tor thirteen years, and the agen., on a
satarv OF 80 amonth, had 10 stand that.