Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-08
SHERMAN.
Our Daily Budget Of News from Gray
son County.
spesial to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
SHERMAN, July There is u singu.
lar dearth of news in these parts since
the grand hurrah of the Fourth. Our
observation teaches us that there Is
special significance in the old saw,
There's always calm after storm, ("
for in repor,orial life, when the whole
country Is stirred up by grand in
gathering of the people, the subsequent
calm almost par.llyzes newspaper
man.
The good citizens of this county
have thrown oil their patriotic regalia
in which they paraded last
week and gone 70 work
in earnest to husband the
substantial blessings that abundant
showers and bright sunshine have
brought to their fields. The city has
begun TO livea up by trade with the
farmers who are now bringing in
wheat and oats rapidly and taking
away every commodity known TO the
wants of householders, 'rhecorn crop
is so promising that The reserve held
by cautious producers Is finding its
way TO market and selling mt forty-five
cents per bushel, which is ten per cent.
less than the same would have brought
two weeks ago. The ruling price for
wheat among our millers, who are the
principal buyers, rangee from eighty
TO ninety cents. according To quality,
the first for Mediterranean and the
latter figure for whittier and better
grades.
Oar. mills are prepared TO take all
that the country will furnish and con-
vert the same into first-class flour for
the Texas trade.
Three of our merchant mills range
In capacity from $50 to 300 barrels
each every twenty-four hours, and can
therefore consumes vast quality of
wheat in the course OF year. Ar
rangements have been made by which
the millers will have no difficulty
about the money to handle the crop, ~
our two banks with one million capital
between them never let home enter
prises suffer for want of cash. Oats Is
selling now at about twenty cents de-
livered In the city, and the quality is
rs fine "a could be desired. A small
trade in new hay Is springing up, but
very little new baled nay has yet come
in. The price ranges from 81 80 for
il excellent and the yield per acre
better than usual. sherman has
grown to be the largest interior grain
and hay market In @TexasI Thou
sands of car loads are
sent from here annually to
East, South and West Texas, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and old Mexico, and
quite nice traffic has sprung up along
the line of the Texas Pacific road
through New Mexico and Arizona. On
the agricultural resources of Grayson
county Sherman relies with implicit
faith for her present prosperity and
future growth. and past experience
demonstrates that these elements are
never delusive. When the neighbor-
ing farmer smiles with plenty,
his city merchant can sell
him goods and smile too, but
when short crops distress the
producer, commerce lags aud mer-
chants bankrupt.
FAC Addington of Gainesville came
over on the $50 train this morning
and has spent the day shaking hands
with old friends.
Beef steers are on the way to market
now, and our COW mems taces are MOI
so long az they were a few weeks ago
Julius Zimmerman. a former citizer
of sherman, who moved his family t.
Baltimore last year, returned Satur
day and will make this his future
home. Give man few years OF life
in Texas and he Is never satisfied ia
live elsewhere. There's no place like
Texas