Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-25
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged. Futures From
1 to 2 Points Lower Money Easy.
Wheat Opened Unsettled, Fluetuated Narrowly
and Closed at an Adyanee-Codee and
Wool Unchanged.
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OFFICE OF THE GAzETTE
FORT WORTH. TEX. Jan "a. 1889.
The bad weather and-roads still bear
heavily on refailstrade on this market,
though jQbbers continue to feel improve
ment in their business.
Receipts of produce are light, but the
supply is still fairly wei filled. There is
no change in values.
Holders of teas seemed confident in
their views and not disposed to press to
sale really desirable qualities which had
more demand in private trade, and at
auction ON wednesday, January IS, an
offering of 5G6S packages were promptly
marketed at full figures.
The quantity of wheat on passage to
Europe on January IS, 1889, was 2l,-
csc GOO bushels, including Is ,816 600
bushels to the United Kingdom, and
2 ,S64 900 bushels to the continent of Eu-
rope The quantity on passage a year
ago was - 1852 600 bushels, comprising
IL ,424 200 bushels to the United KING
dom and 1928 900 bushels to the CONT
nent of Europe, being an increase this
year as compared with last of SIPS 600
bushels, comprising 1892 900 bushels
more to the United Kingdom and 1886 ),
000 bushels more to the continent of Eu-
rope.
The New York Commercial. Bulletin
says the cashier of the bank which does
business for the larger express companies
is authority for the statement that very
large sums ere now coming to that city to
these concerns from their western agents.
The movement began last week and his
bank has received an average of 500 200
per day through this channel.
The Fail River cotton mill corporations
made a good showing in the way of
earnings last year. During 1888 the
mills paid dividends aggregating 81 no.
600, or an average of 9.85 per
cent upon a total capital of SIT 1858 900
against an average of 8 3 per cent in 1887.
The shares of all the mills with scarcely
an exceptions also experienced decided
Use. Tae production of Fall River is
now sold ahead over 200 900 pieces, in
Guiding deliveries up TO and including
May. To meet the growing demand five
new mills are in course of construction in
that district. Three other mills are also
understood to be contemplated.
Says the Chicago Times: fConsider-
ing the remarkably mild weather that
has been experienced for a week past
trade has been very good. There were
one or two rather cold days but no steady
winter weather, and the demand for
heavy woolens, blankets, shawls, winter
underwear and wooden dress goods has
not been characterized by any particular
animation. The season is now so far adj
vanced that any large movement in these
lines is almost out of the question, and
already there is some demand for light
prints for the early spring trade, but the
call is mostly for prints in medium
shades. There are no changes in prices
for prints, and sateens, chailies, fou-
lards, low-grade lawns, batistes, cam
bries, percales, etc, are selling at I'M
changed figures.
1.-THE New York Journal of Commerce
states that importers IN that city are con-
sideriDg Il proposition to call meeting to
devise some scheme of doing away with
the long-dating system of purchases now
in vogue. A glance at the books of a
prominent house showed, it is claimed,
that goods bought as early as last July
were not paid for until the first week in
January. An importer is reported as
saving that unless the evil of dating
ahead is stopped sit will shake the dry
goods trade to its very foundation. In
year of short crops, or at a time when
money is tight, it VIII certainly have a
more than ordinary effect upon trade.
With the heavy duties we have to pay
aud the largely increased capital we re-
quire this system of doing business will
sometime send some of the best of us to
the wall.
AMOUNT OF. COTTON IN SIGHT JAN. IS. |
In the table below, says the New York
ri OTiU a
plantations in another form, and add to |
them the net overland movement to !
January IS, and also the takings by |
Southern spinners to the same date, so as |
to give substantially the amount of cot
ton now in sight:
Receipts at the ports to January IS
1899, 4 ,l4l 1872 bales; 1888, 4 1896 ,002 |
bales; 1887, 4 ,213 Gal.
Interior stocks on January Is in excess |
of September 1-l8S9, 39I ,7l8 bales; |
1888, 400 ,002 bales; 1887, 31S 1868 bales. |
Total receipts from plantations-1SS9, |
4 ,532 $40 bales; 1888, 4 1896, 004 bales, |
1897, 4 ,532 ,009.
Net overland to January 1-lS89, $685.
S33 bales; 1888, 10 ZIP bales; 1887, |
5l3 ,742 bales.
Southern consumption to January l.
1889, 225 600 bales: 1888, 205 900 bales;
1887, $50 900.
Total in sight January 1S-1SS9, 5,32I,- |
743 bales; 1888, 5 al ZIG bales; 1887, |
5 1876, ISL bales.
Northern spinners' takings to January |
,l32 ,Gl5 bales; 1888, ,272 ,545 !
bales; 1887, l ,059 POI bales.
1t will be seen by the above that the |
in amount in sight tonight, as |
with last year, Is $50, 1913 bales, |
the increase, as compared with 1851 is |
I25 1892 bales. and the increase over
1856 is 30 500 bales
THE FORT WORTH MARKET.
BUTTER-Texas, 1880 per ID: northern,
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