Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-28
CLOSED HIGHER.
Prices Firm During the Greater
Part of the Day on Crops.
LITTLE INQUIRY FOR WOOL.
Money Per Cent-Exchange Steady-sil-
Yer 81 1-4-Snear Unchanged-The
Dry Goods Sit uation Lookin. Up.
Bonds Dull and Steady.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COmhEhtlAL hEoIhh.
Special to the Gazette.
New YORK, May 27.-lIoney closed easy
at per cent, the lowest rate. The highest
was l.
Exchange-Steady; 81 s5(q4 50.
SiiVer-g1i.
Sugar-Raw and refined dull and IN
changed
Wheat-Options fairly active, but weak
on reports OF fine weather and crop pros
poets. closing $s@1asc lower. Spot lots
closed easier
Wool-Dun; little inquiry, which is
mainly for fine grades. Prices unchanged.
Cotton-Spot lots steady. AIiddling up
lands, S l5-l6c. Futures closed steady.
Coffee-Spot lots steady; fair Rio, 1870.
Futures closed firm, to 10 points higher.
Hides-Steady; Buenos Ayres, dry, 1871
GGl4c; dry Texas, 10@ 10jIc.
Stocks-Very dun to-day, but prices firm
during the greater part on fine crop reports
and the belief that gold shipments for the
ssxsek would not exceed SS0OO.O 600, also on
Rcontinued easy working -ofthe money mar
Eets There were no features in connection
with trading. Prices closed generally frac-
tionally higher.
Atkinson, 3l3s
The dry goods daily commercial bulletin
says that during the past week there has
been considerable expansion of business in
dry goods trade, some large buyers being
IN the market for brown, Dleached and col
ored cOttonS, both for current needs and for
fall delivery. Prices nominally unchanged,
for actually buyers have III most instances
had either price or discount concessions
made TO them. The wooden department
was quiet outside OF fianneiS. in which an
active demand was again noted Collec-
TORS are fairly good throughout the West
ern section and improving in the South.
Fort Worth and Denver City certificates,
DBL
Fort Worth and Denver Is, 1897.
Atchison general mortgage As, 1914.
AtchisOn incomes, 4ti%;.
Kansas and Texas Is, 10
Kansas and Texas rs. AZ.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Is, ~
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rs, Al
ST. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Is ol]!.
Texas and Pacific Is, 9Gl..
Texas and Pacific 2:s, 32s5.
ATWOOD, VIOLET L co. : COTTON REPORT.
Special 10 the Gazette.
New ORLEANS, LA, May 2I-Atwood,
Violet & Co say:
Futures-Orr New York dispatch to-day
says: New crop relatively weaker than
near months, owing, we suppose, 10 general
rains, which fell last night and this morn
ing and which, according TO the govern
mcnt report. averages One-fCurth inch
throughout the cotton belt
Summer months here are again lower.
May selling at 81 50; June s. %, and July
$ Is. Our large stock here still hangs on
Inc market like so much dead weight, so
far as summer months are concerned. Il
IS Wei known that our spot market is Bloc
lover than official quotations, and although
June contracts are selling sc below mid
sAIing, the spot committee still holds the
Same quotations.
Port creceipts to-day 1000, against 100
last year.
+. .. B.--No sales.
Spots-Quiet and easy. Sales, 1850;
quotations unchanged.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK. May 27.-The stock market
to-day was even more IifcleSs than that of
yesterday, but on the whole there was, If
anything, better feeling in the street and
tirmer tone 10 trading. While the opening
was made at figures from 1sel;2 per cent
higher than those Of last evening and con-
tiAued, covering of shorts soon forced
a fractional advance over the entire list in
early trading, Yet the close was dull and
steady 10 firm, at insignificant changes
from the opening The only final change Of
Hotc was a gain of per cent in Wabash,
preferred, others being irregular and for
small fractions only.
Railroad, government and state bonds,
dull and steady.