Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-06
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged-Futures from
Two to Six Points Higher
Wheat Opened Strong. Fluctuated Narrowly
and Closed at an Advance-Coffee and
Wool Markets Unchanged.
Daily Review
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FORT WORTH. TEX. Aug. D. 1871.
Not SO warm. partly cloudy, threatening rain
to-day; business in all lines, both wholesale and
retail, moving nicely. All the general markets
are adequately supplied for the trade, ell veget
tables, fruits. etc., plentiful. Agood quality o
sweet potatoes are now on the market, retailing
at 81 per bushel. Eggs not so plentiful. butter
in fairly good supply. poultry plentiful, and
changes in quotations are of little importance.
Bradstreet's, in CONNIE nting upon the state Of
trale throughout the country; enainS SatuTaay'
August 2, says: Special telegramj to Brad
streets show no special gains WITHIN week.
though there Is some variation in conditions.
The whea. crop HIS not improved any; inc. Inc ian an
corn has lost Roadway, owing to dry weather IN
Eastern Kansas and Nebraska. where rain is
badly needed, but rice promises the largest
crop on record, and cotton crop advices ara
quite favorable. Our own crop advices from
Eastern Kansas yeste day are brief; Leading
crops as compared with one year ago-potatoes
one-ffth, Indian corn one-iourth, wheat NOT OF
quite one-balf. Corn and oats are worth twlcs
last years prices at primary markets; wheat
fax and tame hay one fourth more, and pota-
toes three times as much. Ram would mel p
corn and potatoes and double the bean crop.
Weather very. warm; poor prospects Tor ram
Prices advancing
ended July 81 are SO, Az ,54l, gain over this
week last year of 1878 per cent New YORK
city's clearngs, which constitute 59.5 per cent.
of the grand total are more than those for the
fifty other cities the gain is II. per cent.
Copper, which last week was firm and tending
upward at seventeen cents per pound for lake,
is now dull and weaker. The heaviest con-
sumers appear to have supplied immediate
wants. Visible stocks abroad are about what
they were two years ago, and nearly A., 800 tons
less than one year ago, Raw cotton is off one
eighth cent, with the bulls in control and
practically no opposition, owing 10 the absence
of any considerable snort interest. Nebra IA
merchants not buying as freely since the
change in the local agricultural outlook. The
reverse is true in Louisiana, owing 10 good
crop prospects. Iron and raw wool and anthra-
cite are as quiet heretofore, and are still
without prospects of an early change for the
better.
Hides are stronger than before, and the price
Is higher. Boots and shoes naturally feel this,
and good autumn demand has betiun at the
higher figures. Importations OF foreign fabrics
have been quite heavy, and tend to further de-
press wooden goods Cotton goods stocks at the
East fairly well held, with a prospect Of
further advance in brown aud bleached sheet
iugs and shirtings.
Exports OF wheat (end -four as wheat), both
coasts, this week are larger. Notwithstanding
the falling Off on the Atlantic coast, San Fran
c alone having exported more than $4,000
bushels. The total is 2, 272, S5S bushels against
,544 ,56S bushels last week and 5I2 397 bushels
in the last week of July, 1883. The aggregate
export d July l to date is S,757, 776 bushels,
against ,279, 694 bushels during July, 1889. and
s, Sl2. 81 bushels in uly, 1883.
The stock market has been irregular on the
drain of Sc. 00U, 900 gold TO Europe and the dis
turbed condition Of European markets, owing
to the Argentine complications, political and
financial. Sugar trust has risen on the prospects
of its re organization, and bull speculation In
silver bullion certificates is a feature.