Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-14
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Fractions Futures We're
From to 4 Points Lower.
Wheat Opened Weak, Fluctuated Narrowly and
Closed at a Decline-COffee and Wool
Were Unchanged.
Daily Review.
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE,
T-ozr Woman Try Ear ~ 1890

Continued activity was noticeable IN
business circles to-day, this being the case
especially with wholesalers and jobbers,
who have never had better trade at this
season of the year. Breadstuffs are in
great demand, and millers have all the
orders in hand that they can fill. The
shipments from one mill alone to-day
was seven carloads of flour, most of it
going north and west.
In cotton there is but little doing, there
having been on the market but a few
struggling bales from the country.
Country produce is active, is coming in
freely and commands the best prices.
Feed stuffs are quiet, but prices are
firm. The supply on hand is large,
though the market is by no means glut-
ted
The only change in quotations is in
wheat which to-day is given at 80 cents
as win be seen in the quotations below.
In an article on the fish industry and
fish market, Bradstreet in the issue of
February 9, gives the following interest
ing points: ''Mackerel are dearer in the
Boston and other fish markets than be-
fore for at least twenty years. The ex-
tremely high price is due to the light
catch of the last three seasons. Very
small amounts are held in stock, and no
new supplies can be landed before
next summer, while the receipts from
the British provinces have dwindled to
next to nothing. The unusual dearness
has naturally diminished consumption,
mackerel at current values being actual
l. nr,- e
worthy movements in the trade dur
ing the past few months has
been the importation of con-
siderable quantities of fish caught off
the southwest coast of Ireland. That
ground is the best in the world for the
mackereI catch, with the exception of
the British North American waters.
Upwards of 10 900 barrels of Irish mack
erel were imported last year, though the
catch on the other side of the ocean, as
wen as on the American coast, was
small. During the winter the importa-
tons have fallen off, but they are likely
to increase again within two months.
The recent action of leading jobbing
house of Cincinnati in "'cutting'' the
price of a certain make of ginghams and
several makes of prints for, it is charged,
an unfair purpose, calls from the Dry
Goods Reporter the following: ''To en-
deaver 10 attract purchasers through
cutting prices of some popular speciality
is bad III principle and worse in practice
AS magnet, the policy now lacks the
attracting qualities of bygOne
years. Jobbers throughout the
country have become well up to
such methods, and are moreover so
jealous of any encroachments upon what
they claim as their commercial domain,
that the slightest deviation from regular
prices, in order to catch their customers,
Is not only met but frequently exceeded.
The small trade, fully aware of the
efforts to secure their custom, and aware
of the jealousy that influences
such action, are not slow to improve
any opportunity that win bring about
cutting of prices. Aside from graf
flying petty ambition, no good can re-
suit from such policy. The retailer or
small jobber who has made purchases at
regular rates finds himself at the disad-
vantage of competitors who bought later
at a cut price Then, again, the
practice rarely compensates the
seller for the loss sustained. Deal
ers, and, in fact, consumers, are too
conversant with the prices of the special
ties usually selected for cutting to be in
duced to make purchases of other fab
RIGS because of the cut on the leader
Further than this the practice checks the
legitimate demand through impairing
confidence in the steadiness of values -