Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-04
Yesterdays Sales Of Railway Bonds
Tho Holders Of Kansas 4
Texas Unloading.
Increased Activity Developed In the stock
Barket--Tho Quotations Ffno
tion Higher.

$4,000 ditto at 70.
Twenty thousand Missouri, Kansas &
Texas general G'sat sgt.
Five Thousand Fort Worth & Denver
City i's at sG1; 1000 ditto at $50 5000
ditto at sGa
Two thousand Louisiana, New Orleans
4 Texas rs at g0R.
Five thousand Missouri, Kansas <
Texas consolidated ia at ll3i.
Fifty thousand Texas & Pacific, Rio
Grande division coupons offered, nj 50i
1000 ditto at 500 10000 ditto at 59i 1000
ditto at 5gi; 10000 ditto, s. G's, at 59i
1000 ditto >. at IS.
Three thousand Houston & Texas Gem
trail s at $751;
Five thousand Galveston, Harrisburg &
San Antonio western division l'sat 9ld.
Two thousand Houston & Texas Cen
trul rs, western division, at9G.
Ten thousand Missouri, Kansas s Texas
general 5's 3. ~ at 10; 5000 ditto at ~.
Seventeen thousand Missouri, Kansas
Texas b's Gt ll8B
Eighteen thousand Texas C Pacific Rio
Grande division coupons offered at 5g4
5000 ditto at 50i 10000 ditto at 90; 10000
ditto 60 at 5sl 5000 ditto at b9i 5000
ditto at 500.
Five thonsand 1exns & Pacific income
land grants az &C.
Texas & New Orleans Sabine division,
5000 atg9.
Five thousand Texas Pacific incomes
az COS 10000 ditto at 1915 10000 ditto at
Sc.
Kansas & Texas G's, 10000 20 at 7Gi
10000 ditto at 70.
Houston & Texas Central PIG, 1000 at
SOD.
Texas & Pacific Rios, ex-dlyidcnd, TO-
900 ut 59i 10000 ditto at 59a
Kansas & Texas rs, 80O0at ll8t.
Kansas Texas general mortgage, 5000
ut 500.
Kansas 6 Texas has been active and
comparatively heavy on continued Chca-
90 selling. The Chicago pool in the stock
Is thought to have been unloading
several days and people connected with
the movement say that that sold will not
be received above 80. The disposition 10
sell Kansas Texas IS stronger than the
wish TO sell Texas & Pacific. The latter
stock Is considered not worth the pres
ent price, but II IL considered too low to
sell short with safety. There has been
some realizing this week IN Kansas &
Texas and In Texas 4 Pacific bonds,
which advanced l TO per cent. After
the opening they became active and OK
cited, but oascd OFF
Cotton opened easy at 8 TO I points de-
cline, with sales of $500 bales.
Oil opened at 8sIc and closed at Ole,
highest price 02ic,
Coffee was steady.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas income scrip
5ji bid, IS asked.
Texas 81. Louis Sabine division 22b
bid. 70 asked
Texas & st. Louis Missouri and Ar
kansas division incomes II bid; ditto first
incomes Is asked; ditto land grant and
income bonds 20 asked
Texas ST. Louis stock delivered 10
bid, 20 asked ditto first 50 bid, so asked;
ditto second iS4 bid, &c asked,
Special TO tho Gazette.
HIDES AND LEATHER.
Boston, MASS, Dec 1.-Two cargoes
Of hides arrived in the past few days One
was from Rosario, Argentine Republic, con
slsting of 80, 1877 pounds which have been
partly disposed Of The other was from
MOnteyidoo, Uruguay, consisting of ~
500 pounds, which were In export
cr's hands at last accounts The market
it rather easy on the basis Of 22I to 223
cents, Domestic hides are steady with
moderate sales
Leather has been rather quiet owing TO
labor trouble.
GOVERNMENTS STOCKS AND noNDs
NEw York, Dec. 3. 49, Government
bonds dun and steady.
The railway bond market was duh dur
Ing the forenoon anG little more active
after midday.
The stock market was more active 90.
day, especially In the afternoon, The
transactions aggregate 500 shares
There woro only three decidedly activ,
stocks, st. Paul with 10000, Lake Shor,
with 90, 80 and Erie with i5,t75 shares
After an unusually dull aud an al
together ieaturcless opening the market
continued quiet on limited quotation,
during the forenoon with small decline
followed by q reaction and u firm ton,
that continued until after ~ o'clock
when there was q very decided increas,
In the amount Of business done
accompanied by an advance tha
did not eliminate until shortly
before 2 o'clock. During that tim,
the gains from the opening quotation
amounted from / 4 TO II for most of thu
iayorltes. Lake shore, Union Pacin,
and New York Central advanced IA, st
Paul & Northwestern IA, Pacific Mai
aud Omaha common each IL, and Fri
and Louisville & Nashville L
each dun and steady market for
short time was succeeded, after O'Clock
by decided weakness, which continue,
until few minutes before the close, an,
resulted IN decline of fraction 10 ,
shade over per cent, thus losing IN,
larger portion OF the gains made ear
Tier In the day The market finally close,
about steady, after a slight reaction from
the late decline, 10 fraction above las
evenings dual lgures, the gains ranging
from 20 per cent.
or r0RHiGN BOARDS.
The Londun correspondent OF the vi
nanclal Chronicle writest
"Thc speculative excitement In stool
exchange circles has been daily stimu
lated Wy the advlcos from New York. III
rush for Canadian and American railway
has been very great. Not only have En-
gllsh operators hecn dealing freely bu
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