Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-08
Yesterdays Sale Of Railway Bonds
The Past Week an Active One
on the Stock Exchange.
A Healthy Condition OF Affairs shown
In the Wool Market Heavy Sales
ut Fair Prices.
Money Fails Back to normal Rates
America Soon TO Cease 20 Re
Great wheat Exporter.

special 10 the Gazette.
NEW York, Nov. THE railway bond
sales to-day were as followsi
Houston & Texas Central Us, main line,
coupons offered, 5000 at 94i ditto,
Western division, 10000 at 94l
Missouri, Kansas & Texas general b's,
10000 at 75b; 1000 ditto AZ 7bi.
Missouri, Kansas g. Texas general G's,
1000 at 904; 1900 ditto at 90b; 10000
Mt 90s 5000 ditto at 90l; 5000 ditto at
30.
Missouri, Kansas G Texas consolidated
7's, 1000 at il2I.
Texas 8 Pacific i's,tRlo Grande diyls'
ion coupons, offered 1900 at 30.
Texas & Pacific income land grants
"a, 900 at 4Ga.
Virginia incomes, 5000 at 80; 10000 do
at 5B4.
Fort Worth & Denver City rs, 10000
1T 49, 1000 do nj SBl
Texas g. Pacific, 5000 nj AZ.
Texas g. Pacific RIOS, eN-dlyidend, 5000
at 50; 10000 do. ut 59h; 10000 do. AZ
$50.
Galveston, Harrisburg san Antonio,
iifSts Western, 5000 at 90b.
Kansas e. Texas, general G's, 22,Oo0 ~
~; 1000 do. AT Oh; 1000 do Mt olAj 5oOo
do. AT 9l4,
Kansas & Texas q l.. rs, 5000 az ll2b.
Kansas & Texas G. G. 5's, 5000 mt 10.
Fort Worth & Denver City ~, 10000
at 81 5000 ditto at sal 5000 ditto at Si3i
5000 ditto at 85i 5000 ditto ut S5i; 10
900 ditto at So; 5000 ditto at Sbl.
Kansas 3 Texas b's, 10000 at ~ ditto
as, 5000 NJ Dl1; 10000 ditto ut 9le Hal-
weston, Harrisburg San Antonio west
crn 1's, 1000 at 81.
The week has been very active one ON
s4..s I'm
the share list are invested with considers
bic Importance. There were some sharp
advances to-day, which carried the prices
of many stocks up TO the highest figures
OF the year, but near the close the reac
tiong were more frequent than OF late
The best quotations were made IN some
Instances on Monday and In others OF
Friday and Saturday Az the highest
points tho Improvement was equal to
20 81 per cent, st. Pau
was the great leader OF the mar
kct, but almost all OF the promncn
stocks were conspicuous features at In
tcIvels.
Cotton showed decline. The spo
market Is quiet. visible supply of cotLo
2,l05, 1867 bales which indicates a deCrcas
Of 80, 500 bales as compared with 1884,
decrease Of 882,Gl7 rs com
pared with 1889, and Il dccrens
~ 708ii aa compared with 1889 Tn
exports for the week were l6l ,GG0 bales
ol which 20 ,b82 were to Great Britain
3l,D5a TO France and 50li 10 the rest &
the continent
Wheat waa duh and heavy,
Corn and oats were active and higher
Rio coffee was steady.
Money on call nj the stock exchange I,
day was plentiful nj N to 2 per cent,
Sterling was steady and the postc
rates were unchanged from yesterday
reduced rates, Wis Si,Ba4 TO 50
The rates for actual busino'
were as follows, viz, sixty days, Si,S.
to &ts8, demand, Si.Sli to Si,sI
cables, "a, Sb 90 StS5l,
Commercial bills were StSl TO St,sl
The supply Of cotton bills were small.
The wool business In the mctropol
has been much the same for son
time, and no special effort
made to change matters from eth
side of the market Holders u
not burdcncd with large stock Of iirs
class attractive quality and appear VT
inclined TO steadily carry whit they hay
Buyers, while they insist that the co
compcla them to figure closer to tholr a
tual wants than for some tlmc past .
ready enough TO move when those wan
develop. This weeks business has be,
light and broken, some Of the trade
attrlbuting this to politics and war
weather, and others to the pretty II
amounts on hand in manufacturers hanC
Difficulty Is experienced IN obtamI
return on the inll Texas woods that "
afford 4 clean margin over the cStreI
costat primary points Foreign carr
woods nro firm and mdilterontly oHorc
10, 200 pounds Of fall Texas sold At /
TO 29e; $4,000 pounds OF secured VeN
al zoe 10 Doe; $4,000 pounds ditto 81 4
TO isGi 10000 pounds ditto at 55ci 20C
puunds OF carpet wool at 80; SOC
bounds Of Colorado; 5000 poun
~ Territory; 5000 pounds
Oregon; 90 bales spring California; n
pounds fall reNAs; G000 pounds scour
ditto: $4,000 pounds nails, $4,000 POM
washed huccca; $4,000 pounds laml
suner pulled; 1000 pounds extra pulle
10000 pounds black, 1000 pounds Cana
Anbs; 1000 pounds No. 5000 poun
No. .; so balcH Doneskioi $4,000 pouu
Mediterranean 90 bales East India, p
watts terms
Hides firm aud fair business; I
Texas, 20 to 20 pounds, at l5A
lglc; Western, rs to 20 pounds, ~ II
,iry-salted TeNas, "a 20 30 pounds,
Ne; Southern, az they run, "a Go
hounds, az ~ 20 2ac; wet, saltcd,
l;rande, a. 60 4S pounds, at l04 to II
B.A. & REG. ox, 40 10 90 pounds, at
tolic; New Orleans city, $1,000 poun
nj 81 Go Ole; Texas, pulled aud pack
81 20 co pounds, 40 IA 10 l3lc, re'
knife, So TO go pounds, at9l So Toe, Coz
try and Western, 50 TO I6 pounds, Mt
IUc,
special % tho Gazette,
i ynSw or rnE Yurunn wllEAr
CnIcA6o, lIn, Nov. 5,--Wheat is
most Important speculative Item In
great cereal market, but 10 non specu
tive huelness 1t takes lower place ant
rapidly losing position, Corn greatly
cceds 81, and, according TO statistics, o
or articles arc coming in 10 test rs ella
to prccedcnce The oat crop OF the .
rent year Il cstlmatcd TO he about equl'
lent TO that of wheat, and haNseed
been so largely grown this season that
receipts 81 that article at Chicago for
preaenf mouth are approximately equal
those Of wheat. This Is due 10 the low pr
obtained for last year's enormous VIII
yicld, which stimulated flax culture N
Upper Mississippi region, II Is hardly
DO supposed that the enormous VIII
crop Of last year will be often repeat
~ Is probable that WI have alrea
roach . The maximum Of wheat PROB
per capita, Hereafter population
vi 81.