Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-12
ON CHANGE.
SPOT Cotton Fractions and Putures
from 3 to Z Points LOwer--MOney
Market Easy.
wheat Opened Weak, Fiuctunted and
Closed Lower-Live Stock Trans.
actions Brick,
FORT WORTH MARKErs-DAILY RE
VIEW
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE, I
Fort WORTH. TEX, Oct. IL. 1886.

was apparent To-Day ana the VOluine VI
business unusually heavy. Hams de-
clined to-day to per pound. Cabbage Is OF
25@50c crate. Eggs are In good de-
mand at good prices.
NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY.
The signs of national prosperity are
everywhere multiplying. All departments
of business are alive with the hum of
profitable activity, and we are as yet
only on the threshold OF good times
There is an immense amount OF build
ing enterprise OF all kinds everywhere
visible from Maine 20 Texas. We are
constructing new railway tracks at the
rate of G0O0 miles year, and these lines
are being simultaneously equipped with
locomotives, cars and other supplies, all
of which, including the steel rails, have
to be transported over other lines.
The old companies are at the same
time so overrun with business that they
are adding enormously to their rolling
stock, case in point being the building
Of 6000 new cars by the Pen nsylvania
company. All the car shops and locomo-
tive works in the country are conse-
uuently working up TO their full capacity.
Real estate building Is Just as active,
and every city, town and village from
Maine to Texas bears abundant evidence
OF the fact. Not only have we popula-
ton OF 100000, but the Nation
10 developing its material resources with
amazing celebrity. OF course, building
materials form a heavy item OF the total
traffic of the railways, hut the improve
ment extends to everything and In all d.
rectlons.
The west-bound traffic of the railways
has been fully as good as the east-bound,
and no more active movement of lumber
and iron ore, aud grain and provisions
was ever known than that OF the present
season in the West, the Northwest and
the Lake Superior region.
II we turn to the South, we find its
growth phenomenal this year, and the
published statistics of the year 1856 are
not late enough to convey full sense OF
the swift development its material and
manufacturing resources are undergoing;
but even these show that the manufac-
lures of the South are now 40 per cent.
Of its whole product, against 32 per cent.
in 1880, the value of these for the year
being S505, S92, COO, against $3l5,924,794
in lS79-s0. Meanwhile, too, there has
been a corresponding agricultural de-
velopment of that section, which makes
an Increase In the total valuation of
Southern products of no less than $685.
900, 900.
With such activity, how can the rail-
| WAYS fail TO share in 1t and grow in value?
And to this growth in value prices must
inevitably respond. Abundant harvests
are at the back of al this growing pros
perlty. Wheat and all the other garnered
crops have proved not only very large,
but much larger and finer than the sta
tisticians estimated, and corn and cotton
promise to more than equal expecta-
tions.
Already we are practically assured Of
900, 600 bales more cotton than we had
last year, and there is broadening mar
ket fer 1t abroad, while the golden har-
vest of corn will probably amount 10 not
far from 1 200, 100000 bushels. This crop
is now rapidly Iipening for the reaper,
and therefore all danger from frost is
long past.
A large and profitable business is being
and will continue to be done, larger than
ever heretofore, for our population Is
larger and the country occupied con-
stantly expanding.
We have entered upon a new era Of
prosperity, and Wall street has so far
merely had foretaste of 1t. Before 1t
fully develops Itself we shall see higher
prices and vaster volume of speculation
than are at present thought of by even
the most enthusiastic OF optimists. The
Investigator, New York.
BUTTER -l592Oc per pound; fancy cream
CorToN-Good middling s,OOas40c.
ooFFEE-Iilo, fair lie; prime llH@l2ci
S c%ItS Rio isSc. Pea Berry siio. -''''
CHEESE-The better grades and Ohio factory
lOd l0kc; full cream twins l4c
CANNED GOODS-Priccs per dozen: Pine
apples standard, 81 65; peaches, standard, 2
ms, 81 90; lbs ~ 10; seconde, MS VI 20; bs
81 rs: tomatoes, standard, bis II 20; seconds,
2 lbs s.; lbs 81 40; green corn 81 lO@l 90;
green peas 1901 80; gooseberriessi rs; rasp
berries 81 $751; oysters, full weight, ID ii 10;
Ss 90 I'm yelgas so; co. sS sST
dimes, American, 81 90 case: imported $l4 80
case; strawberries, ms 81 80; blackberrles
81 %; green cages s.; Eagle condensed milk
VCABBAGE-s2 25@s 50 per crate,
DRY uooDs-Prints Albion, solid eolors,
c american tIsas rH fancy SIC; AnchoF 1c; Ar
mold fancy, 60; Berwick fancy, Aci Charter Oak,
ITc Ounnol, 5Hci Eddystone, &C.; Gloucester se
Steel River, SIC; Windsor fancy, &c.
Ginghams Amoskeag, 7kci Union. 7kc:
ne RS0eg g. 2aSpSyf qx
Brown Cottons: Clifton @ &C, Go; Constitu-
ton, 6se; Dwight, &C.; Glendale, o1e; New
$40; Argyle, 6ko; Busy Bee, &C., Bangor II,
Bleached oottons: Lonsdale, s<ci Forest,
exc; Peabody II, 5Aci Pioneer OF the Market,
6Hc; Clinton, IKE; Congress, &c; Cumberland,
7kci Great Republic, 70. o-,-,,
Cotton Plalds; Conestoga 6H; Cumberland
Nc; Black Warrior, &c; Southern, lSo.
Kentucky Jeans Kluyyer SCI Marion, JOG.
Antwerp 1be; Beekley, lsci Columbus, go
AvOndale, 2lc; Irvington, 25ci Kaiser, 21ci
Laurel Glenn, 26kc; Anchor, S6c.
EGCf5--l5c per dozen
FRUITS AND vEGETABLES--orange 81 "a
per hundred; lemons, 81 90 per box apples,pei
Dbl So OO03 so; Irish potatoes new, st. Louis, 9OC
per buusheli onions, 2hGz7s cent? per pound