Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-20
stocks Of Desirable Woods Are in
Lighter supply Than Year Ago
Sales Of the Week.
ASigorous Attempt Made 20 Hear stocks
with Little Success transactions
Unusually HEAVY,
rrxAg n,l1wAy noNps

itAIN * a ANiHN HNNANf hAV hfAhnNa VII
vision, coupons of, 6's az 525; 10000
Texas & Pacific firsts, Rio Grandc dl.
vision, coupons uff, 6's at bsB; IL 900
Texas & Pacific frsts, Rio Grandc d.
vision, coupons on, 6's at IS; 5000 Gulf,
Colorado 4 Santa Fe firsts at 1884; TO-.
900 Galveston, Harrisburg & san Antonio
's at ll2; 1000 Kansas & Texas general
mortgage at'9lA, 1000 Kansas & Texas
ilrsts at il4a; 1000 Fort Worth & Denver
City tirsts at s9A; 10000 Texas 6 Pacific,
Rio Grande division, ex-coupons ut so;
1000 Texas & Pacific, Rio Grande division,
ex-coupons at 6lt; $4,000 Texas & Pa
einc, Rio Grande division, ox-coupons at
524; 1000 Texas & Pacific, Rio Grande
division, ex-coupous at 80; 5000 Texas
and Pacific, Rio Grando division, ex.cou-
pons at 62l 1000 Fort Worth & Denver
City firsts at sol; 10000 Fort Worth 6
Denver City frsts at s9l 1000 Fort
Worth 4 Denver City firsts at So; $4,000
Gulf, Colorado Santa Re gold 6's at
aGf 5000 Texas & Pacific, Rio Grande
division, ex.ooupons 1t 52k; 1000 Texas
& Pacific, Rio Graude division, ex-cou-
pons az 62A; 5000 Texas & Pacific, Rio
tirande division, eX-coupons at 5li TO-
600 Texas ( Pacific, Rio Grande division,
cN-coupons at 624 5000 Kansas & Texas
5sat slli 1000 Texas Pacific incomes
at 40.
Cotton futures dull al decline.
Grain was firm and steady.
The oil market developed weakness to-
day and certificates declined 20 from the
opening prices, selling down from sOt TO
Is, on moderate business.
THE AToHIsoS READY FOR WAR.
Special 70 tho Gazette.
BosToN, MASS, Feb. lg.--Thc officers
Of the Atohison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road say that the company is in earnest In
il determination TO stay out OF any trans
continental pooling arrangement, unless
It's demands for an increased per cent. are
conceded ills In n strongpositlon, they say,
10 maintain contest and will carry on lis
part OF the war in most emphatic man
ner. The officers oxpecth long and bitter
light but say they do not have any fear
OF the outcome. They claim that accord.
Ing TO the railroad increased and rapidly
growing Importance II has not been given
anything Ike its due proportion Of busl-
ness The developments OF the strife are
looked forward To with the greatest in
iereSti and the general impression here Is
that bitter contest is assured Atchl-
son stock declined from 9Oi to sqi to-day
The result OF the announcement OF the
war 10 rates,
rnE WOOL MARKEr,
spccialto she Gazette.
BosroN, MASS, Feb, l9.--The wool
market has been dull and the tone is zen.
orally less hrm, although prices cannot
he quoted lower except for pulled woods,
which are about | cent OF. Dealers,
while being decidedly more anxious to
sell, do not seem as yet ready 20 make
concessions. They clalm that stocks Of
desirable woods, such as manufacturers
wall want are in lighter supply than
car ago, and the prospective demand
Wlil4 oe greater before the new woods
can come IN, Secured woods have been
q most demand River Platte pulled
ui foreign woods Is now we'll establlshedI
and recognized The pressure to sell |
California spring stin continues, but we I
aesr u no large sales Fall Texas |
and California continued dun |
The total receipts OF wool |
~ this port during the past week com
Prise ASS bales domestic aud 1880 bales !
foreign, against 1854 bales domestic and
loSl foreign for the same time last year.
The sales for the week comprise 9SS 200
pounds 81 domestic fleece and pulled and
1000 pounds OF foreign, making the
total transactions foot up l,825, 200
pounds against l,92S,600 and 2,545, ZOO
pounds Tor the two previous weeks trans
actions. Prices are quoted as follows
Texas spring medium, - months, "a TO
26ci Texas spring fine % TO 2ic; Texas
spring fine, 6 70 & months, IS to pc;
Texas spring medium, to months, 10
70 93c; Texas fall fine 10 10 Gle; Texas
tan medium IL 20 2sc The Texas and
southern wool sales Include 5000 pounds
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BoNps.
NEw YORK, Feb, ig.-,. Government
hpnds duh and steady
Railroad bonds neglected, and prices
sympathize with the movement Ia the
stock market, and especially for specula-
lion, being weak In the morning aud
strong after midday,
Tho raid on stocks was renewed this
morning with great ylgor. The opening
prices we're very Irregular, although q
majority of stocks were 4 to / lower, |
while Pacific Mail was down /. Soon
after the opening special attention was
given 70 Pacific Mail, Missouri Pacific |
ana LaokawannR. IL looked for long
time as II the whole capital |
stock OF the roads was belug
dumped on the market in heap. The |
sales In each case for the first two hours |
amounted 10 about 10000 shares; aud
trading in the whole list during the same |
time amounted TO az much rs an average
days business, Sl4 1000 shares. The |
heaviest decline in the forenoon was in |
Lackwanna, which, after opening at 1908
sold 10 lSl and then yielded to 1870 |
Delaware & Hudson fell per cent, Paci- |
tic Mail 81, Missouri Pacific "a, Jersey
Central IA, aud Western Union Il. The |
trunk line shares, the Changers and Erie,
were somewhat less active and
comparatively strong, yielding only
fractions. The lowest figures !
Of ihC day were generally made before
noon and after midday considerable bust. |
ness was developed, which continued un.
81 u O'Clock, Shares which were con.
splcuous for their weakness In the fore. |
noon gained only part OF the loss then
established. Business in the morning |
was accompanied by q hood of rumors,
all more or less vague, but all going TO
show that serious doubt had been devel- |
oped In the Reading reorganization
Svhemo, the rumors going SO Tar as 10 al
legc that syndicate loaded with heavier