Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-31
LOCAL MARKETS.

The firiner feeling in the cotton market, as
shown In yesterdays report, still prevails,
though the staple is not quotably higher.
Yesterdays receipts were larger Than that Of
any day for two weeks passed, and several
small lots OF high grade found ready sale at
market rates.
The dry goods market presents no new fea-
lures this morning. The Jobbing trade, when
the duh season Is taken into consideration,
has been enlinently satisfactory for several
days, and goOdly number of "nll-in' orders
for domestic prints, glnghams hosiery, mis-
cell'noous wooden goods &C.. We're received
yesterday. a fair business was also done in
plain and colored cottons, though the selec-
lions were individually light.
In the grocery market, meats of all kinds
continue firm at the advanced quota
tons shown in yesterdays report,
and coffee OF all grades is registered at &c up.
Krout also shows an advance while Northern
potatoes are a little OIL.
A corrected price list of saddlery and har-
ness shows slight advance ON furnishing
goods and we learn through X. Il. Tackaber
ry that the com bination fixed by nanufac-
turers OF saddler's hardware is having It's le'
Ultimate effect In raising rates among deal
ors throughout tho country. The jobbing
trade in saddlery and harness has been lit
@ Irregular and on the whole rather qule'
for some weeks, but weare now between sea
sons for this line OF goods, and retail dealen
are for the most part pursuing a sort OF hani-
te.mouth policy for the present. In tie
meantime stocks are accumu ating, aid
preparations for heavy spring trade are 'c-
ing made by leading dealers. In saddlfy
and harness the stocks carried by our maui
facturers are OF superior grade to that OF
any other line OF goods, shoddy goods in his
line being dead stock, and almost worthless.
The mania Tor flrst-cass work and best mal-
ity OF stock has driven inferior goods alnest
entirely out OF the Western market, ant the
stocks now OH hand are OF select maeriai'
and the work OF finished saddlers.
The GAZETTE market reporter Is Indebted
TO the firm OF John 5. Andrews a o., live
stock dealers, for quotations ON lie stock
and stock cattle in this issue
They report the tone IF the
stock market in genenl as
considerable better than for he past
month. Buyers ana sellers are getting nearer
together every day and the next thirty days
| ought to determine the extent of he drive
from the section described in our seport to
v. y
of being closed now, and the coming month
will witness some heavy TRANSACTIONS IN cat
] lie which will make money eashr from now
| on throughout commercial circes geheraiiy'
The live stock trade of Fort Worth has be-
come SO large and the volume oil business
done In that line is of such magnitude thaV
any delay In the contracting OF s'ttie ior tue
spring drive causes "a tghtness, ID 10 speaN''h
the lot al money market conseq'ehtupoh 'ne
| immense sums invested in catte whieh 81
fects for season the rate OF interest," very
materially. At present heavy ieaiers sho"
| "A disposition 10 hold at the prizes oiiereo anu
ship rather than take less thin inc pricee
asked, as 1t is generally only qlestion Oh an
increased rate OF interest askedby banks anu
brokers and take the chances Oh hisne'
market.
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
Tho limited States Ec ononist ana DRY
Goods Reporter says: New foH Is the mos
populous OF the states, containing ABOUT on
tenth OF the entire population u Inc Union
but IL has not the densest population. Th'
last census reports that the number of SQUARE
miles in the republic, not inchding the In
dian Territory and some uDoranized tracts
ls2,9yOl70 The population In $50 was oo.lo''
49,, orl7.2o per square mile. Tut In hhou'
Island the population Is 2j4S per square
mile, In Massachusetts, 22l.7s,.h New jersey
III 78, In Connecticut 1852 AM In New fori
1O6.7i. Our state. therefore, anks nflh III
density of population and there Is an indiea
ton of future greatness OF which but lev
have probably thought IN thefact thai IL ha
room for many more inhabitants. The pop
ulation OF the District OF Columbia Is o3'oo.i
per square milo.
The lugubrious prediction ofMacaulay INA
when we have population of2oo per hqnar'
mile our government will goto pieces 10 no
generally regarded with othei interests tnh'
that OF curiosity and incredibly by Ameri
can: but ifit were deinosstrable iaoh
would have no Immediate terror for this PEG
! ple. If the rate OF lmmigraticn at the higl
es, point A. has reached IN tlis past were
' remain the same, IL would require more tina
zoo years 20 give the country population q
400 pcr square mile. The population oil oe
many is now aC5 per square mile. II col
10 yeysa vivid idea OF the futuie magnitude
o this nation to say that when us density
" incubation Is equal TO that Of Germany =
h United states viii have SetIssi,soi inhap