Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-12
ON CHANGE
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures from
Three to Twelve Points Lower.
Wheat Opened Lower, F;uctuated Widely and
Closed Irregular-Cofee and Wool
Markets Unchanged.
Daily Eeview.
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE,
FORT WORTH TEy Dec. IL, lSN

FORT WORTH. TEX, Dec IL, 1870.
weather pleasant and trade good all
around. Prices generally unchanged.
The general family supply markets sufii-
! GENTLY supplied for good demand, with
prices steady. Eggs in light supply.
Poultry in abundant supply. Butter in
fair supply. Cotton receipts to-day
| moderate.
The cultivation of barley, which eau
be grown between extreme geographical
limits, will always be important. as it is
an article Of food for man and beasts. and
1t is also employed not only in the manu-
facture of beer but in that of alcohol.
The total production of barley in the
world, says the Journal of the Society of
Arts London), is estimated at S25, 000,-
600 bushels. OF this amount Europe
produces from $50 900, 900 to $50 900, 600
bushels, valued at fl60, 600, 600. The
following will show the average produce
| ton for each country: Algeria, Co.
900 200 bushels; Austria Hungary, S.
500, 900; Belgium, ). Go, 700; Bulgaria,
10, l25, 900; Canada. 10. go 900; Denmark
20, $50 900; Egypt, y 500 600; England,
80, $50 900; France, 40. 500, 900; Ger
many, SO, 800. 900; Holland 400. 900;
Norway and Sweden, % 200, 600; Rou-
mania, 10 .250. 600; Russia, l29, 250 200;
Spain. II, GOO. 900; Turkey. 1880 900,
and the United States, 81, $50, 900 BUSH
els.
A net decrease of Sc, 1870 ,Sl9 is shown
by the debt statement for November,
issued by the treasury department.
The cash balance amounts to $780,
S27 1915, a decrease Of about IS 200,-
600 for the month. Gold certificates
outstanding amounted to Sis, 072 ,069,
an increase of about $500. 900 for the
month. Silver certificates outstanding
amounted to $50. 553 ,024, a decrease of
little over 500, 600 for the month.
Government expenditures for the month
amounted to $40 $40 OPP, of which more
than half went for pensions. The re-
ceipts since June 80 have fallen short of
the expenditures by nearly 81 900, 600.
The national bank circulation outstand-
ing on the 30th ult. amounted to Sl7S,-
434 ,659, a decrease of 81, lS6, 257 for the
month and of S2l ,056 ,776 for the year.
1t is natural, says Bradstreet's, that
the non-success of the recent silver pur-
chase law. so far as affecting a perma-
nent increase in the market value of sill
yer is concerned, should be a disap-
rise of silver to S1.20 per ounce was
speculative in character, and its subse-
Quent decline to below 81 naturally fol-
lowed from the accumulation of visible
stock OF over 6 200, 900 ounces. The
fact referred to in the secretary of the
treasury's report, that in the SIX months
ending November l, 1890, some 7,000,-
600 ounces had been imported, against
an export movement of the same amount
in the corresponding period last year,
accounts, in the main, for the existence
of this surplus stock and for the decline
in value, in spite of the absorption by
the treasury of over - ,000,0 900 ounces
since the new law went into effect. The
appearance of numerous free coinage
propositions since congress reassembled
is the consequence of these conditions,
while another proposition is noted which
proposes to authorize the immediate
purchase by the treasury of 10, 900 900
ounces, thus wiping out the entire sur
plus stock, coupled with which is
provision that the monthly purchases by
the government be hereafter restricted
to the product of American mines.