Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-24

II has been OF late.
Cotton receipts sre not heavy. The
prices are tr!hs stiff, but not qucta5ly
changed.
Produce is sitter.
Sugar Is less firm than it hiss been, but
there is no quotsole change. The de-
mand is only fsir, and most buyers are
purchasing for Immediate wants only
At present the Cubs crop prospect is VA
riously estimated at the same as last
year to 10 per cent. less. Messrs. HI,
dalgo & Co. make the last crop 63G, SIG
tons, against Clio III tons the previous
year, and report the supply 10 all Cubs
October l as 90, 1913 tons, sgsinst A, 050
tons Ct :ae Same M last Year.
Repatt hiss 1t that the Alchison people
have hit upon 8 novel plan for ev,ding
the p;cvi31on CT the inter state com nerce
law 4eic3 prohibits rebates. Il Is said
on excsiis2t authority that the company
is h.r!ce residences in Chicago snd CIV
ing ne use Of them to heavy shippers,
rem ;cee, proy!1ed, OF course, the reel
pierss Of this bounty agree to send their
shiDneuIs over the AIchlson. How fN
this enterprise has actually progressed Is
not knoap, but the giving Of publicity to
the scheme will doubtless set
other lines upon the same trace
ana Chicago landlords and bust
ness men will profit thereby.
The month of October being the f,st CT
g regular quarterly period, is ordinarily
q 1ite heavy one in the matter OF inter
es. xrd dividend payments. Ioterest he
comes due and is payable on S695,35 S2l
Of railrosd bonds, and is likely to De paid
on $3.50, 59S, 1921, the smouDt being SlS,
= vx;S DO H.rr Am r.A
or are payable daring the month on
stocks having par value IT S5SS 187 1853,
and these amount to SS,72s,035, which,
with the 81, 900, 0o0 interest on the per
cents to be disbursed by the COVER msnt,
mskes the totsl payments for the month
S34 ,5sl, l52, without taki1g into the &C.
cJuat sta or municipal bonds or tacse
of msnrfactuTing corporations.
A prominent Chicago wholesale grocer
says there has been q complete turn ever
in the California raisin market, and the
growers, whose brokers were climbing
one another 10 give sway 'hree Crowd
Londons st 81 60 to 81 IS, are around
trying TO buy u their COZ rscts a. from
Is 10 % cents bonus. a buyer that had 6
large BLOCK Of Londons, bought at 81 So,
| wEs ff3reG Is cents q oCX to'csncel MS
l
course, for fine raisirs, not trssh. Hs
adds tnst he firmly believes "Cal!fornls
hiss already sold more choice London
layer raisins cut Of the crJp than car
possibly be msde, ami there is no Ques-
lion OF the fact that every box will go GU
st good prices and that the country
would take twice the ausntity II they
could get them. The lower grades OF
| Na n y n
Valerciss, that are in abundant supply
and chesp, but 1t looks now as Though
fine Londons are good for S2.75 or 50 be.
fore erother crop Is made.
Clfee ia being doomed by the speculs-
tors. The bulls are gettips in their work
In Rio and Havre IS well as In New
York, and ct Hamburg recent Gales have
averaged shout 100000 bags day, Caus.
ing fears that financial disasters will be
encountered shortly. Reports Fave beer
circulsted Of serious Danger Of loss Of the
Hsytiau coffee crop on account CT politi-
cal troubles and warisre amCng the
nstiveF, and while this crop does not
amount to much in the general Total Ct
the worlds supply the talk had some
effect. Gables from RIO de JGnerio re.
port stocks there of 229 900 bsgs o.
coffse, Spd there ere 206,t 90 bags Of
coffee on the way TO our shores from Rio
sn Santos The stocks Of BsEzl CO fee
al Nv York, Baltimore spd New Or
leans IL Il st hspds ABOUT to l5S $50 bags,
and the stock 81 the seaboard, together
with the supply on the ocean bound fer
tnia country foot up 1854 $50 bags agains,
AS, 588 bags yesr ago. Cnics go wnolet
sale srocers are holding coffee st full
prices, and roasting Rio cCf=s was put
up I@1 cent per pound Yesterday, the
present quotations being l4@l54 cents at
Chicago.