Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-28
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
3 to ) Points Hieher-Money
Market Easy.
Wheat Opened lower, FIuctuased an,
cloned at an Advapoe-Iivo stock
transactions BrisR.
FORT WORTH MARKETS Rts
VIEW.
OFFICE or THp GAZETTE,
fORI WORTH. TEr OFT VI Iash

trade was good average to-day.
Eggs have advanced to lGl@i7c per
dozen.
Cotton was firm and unchanged at
present quotations.
Grain was active, all offerings OF wheat
we're promptly taken at s7itd90c per
bushel. There Is no Improvement in
butter, but the supply having fallen of,
prices may get better.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms To Bradstreet's note
further decline 10 the total volume of
merchandise distributed, owing TO the
prolongatlon OF unseasonGbly mild wealth.
er, to continued low prices for grain and
produce and 10 country merchants hav-
ing been quite well stocked up with goods
IA the late season Of active trading. At
New York, Boston, Detroit, Nashville,
Louisville, Chicago, Burlington and
New Orleans these influences
have evidently been recognized
This decline in the movement having been
IN progress for over two weeks, continues
TO show itself in the oleaTings The total
bank clearings at thirty cities for this
week, az specially wired to Bradstreet's,
Is 81, 090,2 9S CSC, against 81 ,0g5, 695, o0S
last week, decline Of $4,000 900, or 4
per cent, and as compared with $1,l34,-
2SI,04l q year ago, loss OF S44 600, 900
or per cent. New YoIk's total is S75S,
3ST Psi; last week 10 was S76S ,l2s 1923,
and last year $685., 1913, 049. At the twenty
nine other cities the total Is 1881 ,906, 1876,
against 1921, 572, $50 last week. and secs,
$40 992 last year. This week New York
lost $40 900 900, Philadelphia and Chicago
$4,000, 600 each, and San Francisco
oil
s7,000,000 on the week. The domestic
money markets maintain the general
| tirmness heretofore noted, the larger por.
ton OF the demand at some OF the more
important points being to supply ordinary
commercial and Industrial needs. Earn
ings of forty-four rail ways daring the sec.
ond week OF October aggregated S4,s09,.
600, a gain Of 1927 900, or nearly 10 per
cent. as compared with the like week in
1885. The New York stock market was
irregular and feverish during the week,
with considerable speculative manlpula-
ton. Bear attacks were made ON some
prominent stocks under which prices gen
eraly declined The transactions OF the
New York Stock exchange for the week
amounted to IL ,065, 800 shares against To-
l07, 200 shares last week and H..
1856, 800 shares the week END.
| ing October z. Bonds were
irregular, with advances in few issues
Sales OF bonds on the New York Stock eI
change were 80 628, 275 ia amount, against
$2,525,9G last week, and SO, $50, 2S3 fol
the corresponding week last year. Foreigr
exchange advanced &c in The early part oil
the week, and dec ined the same amount
later on. Money is slightly easier thar
last week, but rates are firm at per cent
The conspicuous trade feature is found IL
the large increase in demand for raw GnC
finished iron at the West and South. Price,
are again higher, and makers are incline,
to refuse figures which were acceptable {
week ago. At the East the demand ia no
nearly 80 large, though prices are firm q
quoted q week ago. Steel rails are nj
higher, and not likely to be in the nes
future, although the mills are well sol
up. Dry goods generally are not so &C
tive as week ego, for causes aread
named. Prices, however, are firmly held
ana on some grades of brown and bleache
cottons even higher figures are asked
Woolens are firm and promise TO advance
Wool is easier, with a tendency towar
weakness. The lockout in the knittiu
mills at Amsterdam and Cohoes, N. Y
checks sales and stimulates resales {
some extent The labor troubles at Phi
, adephia textile mills, where lockou
, to affect rs, 900 employees is threaiene
I. November unless the latter keep agree
ments alleged to have been made, prom
ises to become disturbing influence. Tn
switchmen's strike at Minneapolis IL prat
tically ended, after having delayed tran
for over a week Wheat is frmar nm
higher on better export demand, and th
arrival OF cold weather will stimulate Ia
hog products Industry Cotton is weakt
on heavy movement Of new crop an
pressure to sell at the South. SpoI
are off l-l6o., and futures 10 points. TIL
weather taVors picking. The Louisar
sugar crop outlook is improving. TT
total number OF failures in the Unite
States reported TO Bradstreet's this wee
is 1913, against 149 last week, LAG yei
ago, 234 in 1884, 2oa in 1883 and l4l
1882. Canada had 20, against "a la
week and last year. The total in Il
United States from January TO date
SO9G, against 1894 in q like portion
1885, q decline OF 99s. la 1884 the tot
to date was 87l7, or 6l2 more than th
year; in 1883 1t was 1917 and in 1882
was 667T.-[ Bradstreet's.
BIJTTER -lOal5c per pound; creamery -