Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-08
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
Three to Six Points Lower-Coffee
and Wool Unchanged.
Wheat Opened Easy, Fluctuated Narrowly and
Closed alta Decline-Live Stock Trans
actions We're Brisk.
Daily Review.
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE,
FoRf WORTH, TEX, Dec. Z, 1855.

There has been no feature of interest
in trading on the Fort Worth market to-
day. There has been activity during
! business hours, and the receipts of coun-
try produce have been heavy.
! The laws of New Hampshire require
that oleomargarine or imitation butter
| shall be of pink color when offered for
] sale in that state.
| The weekly statements Of the Bank of
! England and the Bank of France indicate
| that tho drain of gold has been wholly
| diverted from the British capital to con-
| tinental centers. During the past week
| the Bank of England has Increased its
| stock of the precious metal by fl3 600,
while the bank of France lost s 100 900
francs gold, while gaining $50 900 francs
| silver.
The eastern steel rail manufacturers lat
| their meeting at the Windsor hotel, New
] York decided to adhere to the agree
| ment entered into at Long Branch last
| August, and furthermore, to make the
| minimum price of seq per ton, tide water
| delivery. The result ofthe meeting of the
| western interest is still secret, but it is
stated on very good authority that they
| Will fall in line with the eastern compa-
nies in conforming to the summer agree
| ment and fix their minimum prices on
the basis of S32 at Chicago.
Says the Chicago Times: Considering
| that this week has been broken by q holt
| day, trade has been fairly good. Fewer
out-of-town customers have visited the
city, but the volume of goods sold by
mail orders from buyers and 'sdrum-
mers' was tolerably large. The wealth
er continues very mild for so late in the
season, and this is of course an obstacle
to full activity in woolens, winter cloth
ing, coal, stoves, and several other lines.
Nails have sold fairly and so has barbed
wire. Lead sold at q sharp decline,
while pork barrels and lard tierces were
advanced. Begging and leather were
unchanged.
A Liverpool exchange Of the 18th inst
says: Among such conflicting opinions
it is not surprising that fluctuations should
occur. Meantime an incident took place
yesterday which afforded fair test of the
general estimate OF crop by holders and
operators. The rumor was spread that
Mr. Neill's estimate was Z 100 900 to
$50 900, and the arrival market de-
clined on it This indicates a previous
! current market estimate at less than Mr.
Neill s supposed estimate, say a market
ket estimate of $500 900 to.
Z 1000 600. Mr.. Neill's report is ex-
pected in about ten days, and the rumor
of yesterday is declared to-day TO be
wholly unauthorized and apoehryphal.
PINE STRAW BAGGING. 9,
The Savannah News says the opinion
prevails among sawmiu men of Georgia
that the pine straw bagging recently i'll
fr.Jnna1 in Wit 20 Io1
gins can be made successfully and salts
factorily for all purposes. Only green
pine straw is used In the manufacture of
bagging, and it is thought that the guam,
titles now thrown away as useless would
supply the demand, and that the chemL-
Gals coming from the straw could be, used
in dressing it. By this, means the entire
tree would be utilized whereas now only
the body of the tree is used. The
same power, or perhaps R small
additional power to that of the saw
mill, would run both. machines and in adj
dition to turning out thousands of feet of
lumber and thousands OF gallons of spirits
daily, thousands Of yards of pine straw
baggipg could be manufactured at the
same time. There is believed to be no
obstacle TO the accomplishment of this
work in the vicinity of Savannah. The
raw material is at the fingers end of the
saw mill men, and the labor required to
haul logs to the mill could at the same
time gather the straw. 1t would perhaps
require an increase of skilled labor to
operate the bagging machinery.
THE RICE CROP AND OUTLOOK.
In their annual circular Messrs. Dan
Talmage's Sons estimate the rice crop of
the United States for the present year at
l,ar To- Of
>Gl5', 900 i'll 1885, and 600 900 in 1886 As
compared with the crop of 1886, Louisi-
ana is estimated to have produced about
81 per cent, Georgia rs, South Carolina
50, and North Carolina 81 per cent. The
situation and outlook is thus briefly
epitomized: The product of the
United States is fully 80 to
40 per cent. less than the trade require
ments east of the Rocky Mountains.
The total crop on hand is less than in any
of the past six years ut equal date, except
1887. At equal ratio of demand the
whole of the crop will be absorbed before
spring. Nearly one half of the apparent
stock ahead Is below the grades demanded
by the regular grocery trade. In pre-
vious years Of equal crop the range of
prices has been to l cent per pound
higher. In the past six years, except
1850, the prices OF November and Decem-
Der have been the lowest of the season
No foreign of desirable character can be
imported to-day and profitably sold at
less than cents er ppound. -
THE FORT WORTH MARKET.
BUTTER-Te1ss, 22laa26e per u; northern, %
G2jc.
CoTToN-s.5Oa9.25
choice, $40 iec; fancy, soi.c; Jt JAVA, 272e;
Golden Rio, 1881 Pea berry, 1917 T2Ofc..
CHEESE-Full cream swiss, l5IaGii1.c; Bad I
ger state. liG14i4c; young America, l4I.c.
CANNED GGODS-Prfces per dozen: Pine :,
apples, standard, Ass, 81 55G1 IS; peaches, STAN
dard, 2ibs, 81 so; 3bs, 81 Is; seconds 2bs, 81 25
Sbs, 81 20; Strawberries, Ems, Sl-35; black
berries, 2b, s. cool 70; green cages s.; rasp-
berries, 20, 81 10; narrowtat peas, 2B
81 So; oysters, full weight, b, ESQ 90; 2 lbs,
81 GoGl 50: tomatoes, standard, lbs, s5cGsI 90;
lbs, 81 2oel 80; green corn, 81 I061 so; sal
mon, l n, 81 7O6l S.; sardines, rs, domestic,
IS O0G5 so; imported, Sl2 gOGl5 90; Eagle con-
densed milk, S. Is. California canned goods,
Cutting brand are on the market and are quoted;
Abricots. ~ rs. 81 10; blackberries, 81 IS; i
peaches, yellow free. 81 ~; peaches, white cling
81 IS; piums, s. ~; pears, 81 4oi grapes, 81 90;
red cherries, 81 10.
DRY GooDS-Price list of fan and winter,
1855: -
Prints-Alien's fancy, &c; American fancy, SC;
American lndisoes, SIC; Berlin solids. &C; Rer-
lin oil colors, &c; Berwick, SIC: Cyclone, SC;
Dunuelt &c: Eddystoue 6lse: Gloucester fancy,