Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-01
LOCAL MARKETS.

no material change from yesterdays report.
Dry goods, especially In the line of cottons,
continue firm, with an upward tcAdency in
the price ofleadmg staples.
Yesterdays sales OF country produce Were
above an average and give evidence that yet
greater possbillte are In store for dealers.
Fort Worth has n1w several dealers who
coniine their business exclusively to pro-
duce, and the result of their efforts TO build
up n produce trade at this place have been
eminently satisfactory. onions IN barrels
are vlthout change, while potatoes are re-
ported ilrmer. Poultry continues in good
demand, and everything like an average lot
finds ready sale at full market quotations.
Eggs are still low, ten cents being the best
offered yesterday.
Drugs show no change from Yesterdays re-
port.
CANNED GOODS.
a sale of canned goods, 5000 dozen three
pound cans tomatoes, recently made NJ Balti-
more, gave risl TO considerable com ment,
not on account OF the quantity OF the goods
offered in one lot, but through the low price
Mt which the goods were sold. The prices
pi ovei the lowest on record .incc the intro
duction of cam, goods, the dealers adding
OF the business. The regular Iobbing price
the present season. 1T appears IS So cents per
dozen, but the big sale recently made had a
dcmorailaing ell ct. Tomatoes can now oc
grown and canned at such low figures that
the prices Ola few years ago VIII never be OBJ
talned again
TUE CARPET INDUSTRY.
The carpet tradeat New York thus far dur
ing 1851 is declared by the Carpet Trade Re
Wow to lie equal aud probably somowha' In
excess of that for the corresponding season
OF 1855" The western hoods checked whole
sale t,ado some. At the present time there
are many of the larger buyers IN the market,
but asa ule they ARE spending more time
In a careful survey in search of the choicest
styles Desirable GOODS IN all grades more
specially in the better, are wei! soldup, and,
with the ordinary demand which may reas-
onably be expected during the remainder of
tho season, there viii be no rplGs STOCK In
flr.t hand. Floor oil-cloths are In good de-
mnnd. and in fact are more active Than Is
usual for The spring season. China mnttipgs
are be Ginning 10 move, and an active market
during the nest thirty days is expected
a NEw PLAN FOR SHIPPING EGGS.
The following accornt of an improved
methouo OF pacN'hs esss io'
taken rome i'le ISSUE OF me ''ohu''' iii'iee'
'fhe New Zealand Sh'pplns ""t"s
chartered steamer lonlc' Wnich 'p' o'aN Z,
send last week, taxes ON coHs'si VI
t0,N0 salmon "sgs, packed ohsH vh'iiu'S NC"
principle in order TO Keep down inc 'enpper'-
ture and retnrd development OF lhe germ III
eggs. Tile method hilhefto auopteu IN senu
ing out consgnmenis OF oNa'o Tue eo'o'iies
Inn ia IA la.a
has been TO surround The cases IN Wnicii the
cggs are deposited win blocRs"i ite' Whicn
IT has too often lound, besides uiklhs up Il
large space and adding much to me cost
melted en- route, causing the destruction oil
the eggs 1t was Intended 10 pre-
serve. Even IL the supply oil Ice III"
| not become exhausted, the excessive satnra-
| ton of ihe moss In which the eggs are pack
oil by the percoatlou OF the Ice wafer. ana
the jnpossIbility of efcc,inga change OF the
atmosphere in the packages, led tochemical
action. or TO the development Of nngold
growths, which equally often proved htal TO
a large proportion, ifnot the whole, OF the
eggs. I'll, new 5, EN- adopted is inodih'
cation of Iiaslam's rofiseriting machinery
used In preservation Of meats aud other per
ishable produce. Iiy an ingenious coniriV-
/ ance the air. though kept at steady temper
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