Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-07
UN CHANGE.
a1gSsr Pr.css again Es.abl'shed IL
Whss'-C&Ta WAS IFresuIsrs
Aoasy &erkst Easy
Spot Ooston Unchanged, Fu;urss FEcm
OSe TO -Four Points towsr-Class
and wool Unchanged,
Daily ExvlaE.

SdIS EsfA9Ns
SAzacEa nrEI1S, }
aog~ Y5RTE. EEK, Oct. 6. lstS,
There his heen tina ueusl SS.utda7
qqletus IL wholesale lines on the For
Worth rasrke e. to-dsy, there having beer
no.icesbia absence OF visiting buyers,
who 0Sve beep in the city in such mum
oecs dur.rg the preceding days of the
week SIS 10 make the personal
order business an item Of nc
small importance. Soma of the
iobbers who have fallen behind through
week have been able to catch up with
their trade to-day.
Although there have been great many
farmers on the streets to-day, but they
seem 10 nave come in 20 buy, not TO sell,
for while tneir custom has made retail
trade GU the market unusually active the
receipts Ct Cottor, wheat and produce
dSYe been rather small. The retailers
rspo-i an extremely nesvy trade to-day.
PcGduce n.s been gradually becoming
scGrcer through this week, and advances
have baen made In values almost daily,
without any reaction, and al tho close of
business to-day the supply on hand with
IVA NpA Si oshAS@o 40 c3ldit oha R!&NSof
sno1gh showing 10 change from yester-
dag are stiff with every indication CT a
Use on MOndsy uDless unlocked for sup
piies are receiVsd.
Wheat, with small receipts to-day,
maintains It's yS!ue Of yesterday.
Cots. has not osen received IN as great
qus1l,ies to-day as during the earle
dsYs OF lie week, odiY about fifty bslei
having bean piacei on tae market. Vsl
ues sre week at old quotations, unfavor
able .tdyices from eastern market. having
been receiv d during ths afternoon.
Wall rect Daily News: TIE October
disbursements Cor divlden~s snd Interest
we're unquesEionaoly the largest ever
known for that period. For the Issues OF
new }nds will more than onset some
slight reductions in dividends.
The actual count of stock Of cotton In
Liverpool Was made ON Thursday last,
ana resulted in an addition to the rur-
uiag count CT something over $1,000
oa.ee. &
lis pointed ont that the yscs4hs,n
states are 81 ably decreasing the amount
Of tasis farm Indebtedness, takiEg sdvSn-
t&ge OF theiy pGeselt growing prosperity
to hasten liqa.dasnn. The lsst csusQs
showed ,hs; from 20 20 30 per cent OF The
southern fam a;s were Ia debt sDd mort
gsged the!r crops Ill sdvsnce. T. L uis
ism. FRO Il three Sourtns to four f tbs
wers reported rlottgagsd, in Mississippi,
three-tourihf, ia Arkansas from one h6 1
to thrs e-;0uftas, 10 Texas from one-i1uTth
to three-iourihs, in A.aoams about ole
half.
l. elsdon 81 tcis subject the New Or
leans Times- Dsmocrst speaks es follows
"Tzk NJ the whole south, it would be
sste 10 say thst IN 1880 from 60 to 65 pc
cent. Of the farm rs were in debF, spd
borrowed money ii sdy<nce to cultivate
their crops for the year. This wa5 the
worst we reached, for the mortgage sys-
te u has beeD declining STEADILY ever since.
The good cotton crops Of the past lyu,
years have enabled the southern fs'mers
TO pay OF some OF their old DEBT anC,
there are fewer mortgages in force so-Gag
than ever before, not over So to 10 per
cent. CT Inc farmers borrowing m meg in
advance to CARY on their Business
Nearly all the agricultural Iepo,ts have
tHelt st length on this rapid de ;resse il
farm mortgages. Sabine is the list cot
ten parish IL louisiana to free itsel.
wholly from this burden, but It will soon
have many imItators."