Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-03
ON CHANGE.
Wdees wss hili gain To-Day and Adj
viacsd for ali SoR.hs-FrsEisisns
Vera Also Higher
Coffee Still Incliued to 90 Up-Wool Us-
changet-LctIon Market Well Ms;a-
tziaed-The Quotations.
Daily Gevtsw,
oNL- : = % MT 7
yoRr WoECa. Tx. Oct. 2. 1898.

| yoRT ToErE. EBx.. Oct. 2. 1898.
Activity hiss prevailed IN all branches OF
trade in the Fort Worth market to-day.
| There has been An advance OF fraction
all around on meals. Lsrd is also up &c.
The scarcity of hogs Is making Itself felt
more and more each dsy.
Fall quotations are given to-day or dry
goods.
The receipts CT cotton has nc:
amounted to 100 bales to-day. Prices
are Of little more, having rsnged to-
day between 81 and 81 cents per pound.
Lard oil has oeen advanced from 10 to
20 cents per gallon. This has been mad5
necessary by tire corneriog OF all stocks
! In the west BY one persor, who II IS an
ticips ed, will make further advances ere
long. The white lead trust recently
formed 10 New York advanced the prics
of the article SIS 20 500 per ton 5. the
sssrt, snd have since made further lifts.
The crop Of potatoes is noW getting faf
enough along to Judge pretty accurately
CT g coudiuoD, lays the Boston CONNER
Gil Bulletin. This is generally good, Ard
with two excep ions the states and terrl-
tories gaow IN increased srea. These two
exceptions are Delaware and Nevsda
|
year ent thu iSster a reduced acreage.
The yield ia msny Of the stsEes is iy-eg-
lar, but there viii be 6 big yiald from the
west. The north a!eo will pro-
ducs large crop OF potatoes
While IN soma sections the
acreage IL increased, the weather has not
been SUCH as to produce particularly
large yieid per acre. The largest Increase
1 Z IN r,Or1
aud extension Cf cultivation in general
will account II large part of Il. TIE
deere aged yIela last year and the higher
prices resulting nad the effect Of increas-
| ing the acreage. The development OF
truck farming sGd the demand for pota-
toes for gaipn9at, or the opening Of
mine or tbs oIlldIng of railroads are
specified bY the sCutnern correspondents
Gus districts. The only stAtes aud
territories where the average con.
dition Of the crop falls below 80
are K ntucky, Arizona and Dakots, and
| il more thaa awo-,hird8 Of the remainder
it rarges between &c and 9s Thus it il
evident that there Will be no lack OF po-
ta.pes this ye2r. LAST year, owing to
LACY Of mols,ute Dad other untavofable
climatic conditions, the crop in the west
was bat decimal II what it usually was.
and the inor!EeTn crop from Maine, New
| Hampshire AID Northern Vermont WAS
seat west aud south. Consequently hig4
prices were pad for American potatoes
and foreign potatoes. Il Is expected that
] the yield Will be so large this yesr that
prices Will be TOO low 20 make 1t an OBJ
jecs for German potatoes to be sent
across.
Ire Wall Street News says: The stock
market just now ofers advantages to the
investor which are not likely to continue
long. We know that the progress toward
per cent or per cent. rate OF interest
| on Investments is e.eadY, and 10 security
that is not really speculative will return
more than per cent. q. present. Indeed
gresl man, stocks nave held strong that
are paying only per cent. or less than
per cent. because there Is hope that
sometime before long they may increase
their rate of dividend 70 pes cant.
This seems TO be n yesr for Dig tag
rates, nesrly all the American cities Had
ing IL necessary to increase Iaelr taxes in
order to meet cu:reat expenses Nav
York mas run is rate rp % 81 % per 500
and Paiiadelpnia f. 90 IS. Ia both casss
this ID due to neeced public improve
ments.
| According TO prominent bank officials
time funds sre daily growing scsrcer,
snt wish s0y sudden 0rlak demand from
ghe west, rates would fuu up from 5t@6
per cent to 1893 per cent.
The Angus exports Of cotton from the
U1ited States amounted 20 81. S53, 1927, q
decrease ga com Jared with August last
year CT 81, 7C9 $50. For the yesr end d
August 81 the exports amounted 10 $780,
| 500 OIL, an increase Of 5l6,37l ,21.
! The paIi3r6l bsnke LoH have on de-
post in tee Treasury SOIL, 652 in lawful
money for the redemption OF circulation
| Tue svatlshla balances il the Treasury is
Sl07, Sl9,096.