The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-15
A CHAT ABOUg CROPS.
THE OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING,
Tho Cotioa Void Lerger ihan Ever
Enown-giuNsrs Scarce Dailag IS
n Cotton Narket-TIut Plano
Cotton -Dnllaa Bay enc at
other Points.

A HERALD reporter sat d, The Clnner-
table yesterday with Il prominent
merchant ID the city aid s. gentleman
from tho country, Who De- SHOWN az
one OF tho most iuts llissrl "rd best
posted farmer ia thu coucJy. They
began Il Discussion OF tho weather
with the appearance Of the soup, had
gotten RS lar ~ crops whom they hO-
ished taair Ash, and by the tim1 the
Ice cree IA, cake and coffee had mp
psared the scribe hsb gathered y tuI!
and complete report OF tho cor
Gition a. cotton, corn, wheat
and othuC staple products, tine
trade outlook, no position Ct
Dallas 81 "A cotton llatIet, and many
other matters couGecieU with the COM
mercill welfare OF the city Gld suE-
rounding country.
"I have been oVar a graNt deal OF
Dallas county" SAID tho iSrIner. "and
fhrough several Of the aciJiuing cpUu-
ties, Gnd L find the outlook most Gu
cQural ing. Wheat and OATS nave long
ago been gsruercd IN, end every one
knows hat such y yield has never heep
known in the Safe. Corn is being
rRTidly gathered, and much u the
gr1urd planted ia turDinc out 90
bushels % the acre, and rs
70: co. lJn-well I know it 10 cOnsic-
cred IT. proper thing for farmer 10
talk down tive cotton crap Buo say it is
very shott, auu Nil thar; but the isuth
OF Uhe Inntter "a LheL every where / nave
been cotton i good, Srd WIll yield an
q. srga OF three. quarters OF ndlO .
the acre. the only yrOuhio j. found "a
rna wSut = sufficient number u
picke,s 20 g0t'Igr in tho crop nov
standing in tho riaid. Mark my words
if We don't hRVo hard raius that wit
beat 10 Gus 0ud ruin IL, 4eXG5 viii have
rho biggest cotton crop by lar tn4.
she has ever htd. But tell ne,
now Is it tna5 Dallas allows cotton
to be brought in and then hauled ont
to q sn.sli town ike Pane ans sold"
"The reason il o. lily g'yeu,' re-
DIED the merchant, WHO j. u unemb
u one of the largest wholesale hrD' IA
too city. "fhat cotton came from
about Plano, and the merchants o.
that town bad advanced a. good d9at
OF money on IT, When they saw il
coming ~ Dallas thSy we're, some of
thom, AFRAID ihey would iCse she al
YauCus m&0e on 10; 80 thuy al s,OG
ngeGhar AUG decided ~ Soud II niau
down 10 boy 10 III, agrEeing 30 make
up tie difference il prlce "h.ch
no might have ~ psY u GOT 1t. Roeiiy
there was nothing IL tho ma.tof
The cotton equally brought into Dal-
las represents bat - small part 81 IBIS
whole amount handlod hy Dates buy
Grs. The total recsips a. shown Oy
the books al the CoEJOn yard, up To last
night, amount ~ 10 tnhu $500 bales aod
vu5 Ona house flOru sold curing the
Less week more than 1850 haies, when
we had bought thc u "a tho cnuntTY,aLu
NO bales OF winch aVer SAW Dallas, So
is with other merchants here. We
ouy thus cotton al over the cOuatry.
we can have it. compressed 1T almost
any Smlu tow on the rA>l"
rosd, whence We get uSl "s
rood shSpblug rates as we could
Wav we should have il Brought Dego st
~ Sddiional cost 10 tho seller, IL not
- curse YES. Therefore - - that lbs
IN Der o. bales showed ny rhs weigh
els books Is bat . -ilgli tra3tlOG Of che
Waulo amoun5 bought by the Oily /
was talking with tina manager OF one
of the express o0iG panies yesterday,
and he toid no that his company
was handling thousands upon th1us-
sen d. of GoiiGrs sent TO tbJ banks o.
Cnls city 70 ue pat liz cotton. the ludl-
cations arc rhal the Uctual receipts IN
the city will DO 5000 bales, but the
number bought BY Dallas men thar
viii DO shipped irom otDer points Will
70 very lsr over thsJ tigure. Dallas i
not only doing business ut tho old
stand, pu5 IL also rapidly mskin6 new
stands"
The tonth~pick era having arrived;
tbs takers SrGsa rom tho table end
walked our, followed by rhG scribe.