Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-05
CHEERING NEWS,
A Decided Improvement in the
Tone of the Market.
A GOOD DEMAND FOR COTTON.
The Advice is to Sell al a Good Advance
and Not to Wait for Bal
loon Prices-Other
Features.


Special to the Gazette
New YORK, June Mooney closed easy
at per cent. The highest rate was 81 and
the lowest was ..
EXchange-Steady, 81 S5{}Id4 SO.
Silyer-g11 5C091$4.
Sugar-Raw and refined, dull but steady.
Prices unchanged
Wheat-Options quiet, active and firm,
closing on some covering 36@$lc higher.
Spot lots weak
Wool-Dull but steady at unchanged
prices
Cotton-Spot lower. Aliddling upland,
S34c. Futures closed steady
Coffee-Spot lots steady Fair Rio cargoes,
1870. Futures closed lower. firm. and
steady.
Hides-Buenos Ayres, Dry, l8l4al4; dry
Texas, 10(01015c.
Stocks-Fairly active to-day. During
the morning on the report that Rock Island
directors had reduced the quar-
terly dividend TO one-half of / per
cent there was some selling and
considerable CONSERVATION. That stock de-
clined points and the remainder of the list
went down 3 to ~ per cent. Reduction
of the Bank of England rate, however, and
the more favorable aspect of affairs
abroad Offset this somewhat and the mar
ket hardened later prices closing generally
a to per cent higher. $500, 900 goii was
engaged to-day.
Atchison-3Ots
No change in the dry goods situation.
The market continues dull and fea.urelesS.
bonds dull.
Fort Worth and Denver City certificates,
32ls.
Fort Worth and Denver Is, 1857.
AtchisOn general mortgage As, 1874.
AtchlSOn incomes, 433s
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Is, 1jIl.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rs, 39i3.
81. Louis, Arkansas and Texas is, 500.
Texas and Pacific Is, S5l5.
Texas and Pacific rs, 81 =.
ATWOOD, VIOLET & CO.. ON COTTON.
Special to the Gazette.
New ORLsaNS, LA, June Atwood,
Violet & Co, say
t'utures-As we advised yesterday the
market has proved d purchasing one and
we think viii go higher, but at the same
time we advise taking moderate profits as
the large surplus everywhere will not
stand, perhaps, at the moment very mrch
OF an advance. We would advise buying
on a. easy market and selling on Il good
advance. We had orders from all sec
tons to-day to buy December particularly.
which we said in our last was Il purchase
between 40 and $50 or anything on that
basis. The new crop months have
advanced 9 TO 10 points and summer S, the
latter being weighted by the large stocks.
/ lie lar MOnlNS nave improved III new
York more than the near.
Liverpool closed at a decline Of l point
after improving ,.
The crop Is needing rain everywhere.
There was none throughout the cotton belt
yesterday nor the day before.
Port receipts to-day, $500, against 900 last
year.
Spots quiet and steady. Sales, 10000
Quotations unchanged.
CEoP NEWS
Paris, TeX.-Crops up here never better.
HS. Q recently been over all of Northeast
Texas and the Indian Territory.
Wilmington. y. C.-The condition of the
growing crop in North and South Carolina
is somewhat improved under favorable
weather, but the average is fully p per
cent lower than last season.
Gree..Vile, Missouri crop prospects
continue fine and the weather so far this
week has been all that planters could desire.
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
New YORK, June 4.-To-day outside of
corn roads the only important movements
were in Union Pacific, sugar and Z few
specialtics.
Opening prices Were not al lower, though
Rock Island was down , per cent and the
general list recovered Immediately from the
depression. There was no special strength
shown outside of few specialties, among
which Wheeling and Lake Erie were the
most prominent. Final changes showed
only small losses and gains in the general
list, but Rock Island is down per cent and
Burlington :.
Railroad. government and state bonds
dun.