Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
ON CHANGE.
Spots Down LIS in the New
Orleans Market.
FUTURES LOWER ALL AROUND.
Wheat Weakened and Closed.L
Closes Fraction Down-Oats Lower.
Sugar and Coffee Markets-Hog
Products Lower.
Commercial Dots.

The four Atlantic ports cleared Friday
397, 900 bushels wheat, 46,S16 packages
flour, III, 40S bushels corn, 1882 bushels
oats.
1t is said that S. V. White is running the
deal in Lackawana which has caused such
remarkable fluctuations in that stock re-
Gently.
At San Francisco yesterday the stock ex-
change adopted a resolution prohibiting
traffic in mining stock futures.
At the principal markets Friday receipts
of wheat were $50 gS4 bushels, shipments
81, 692 bushels; receipts of corn 1,054, 600
bushels, shipments 1,202, 1874 bushels.
There are now fifty ''tank'' steamers ply
ing between this country and Europe car
rying oil in bulk They carry about five
million barrels OF oil annually.
The New York stock exchange officially
reports silver as follows: On hand, 8, 234,-
7S5 ounces; deposited, %, 456 ounces; with
drawn, 1000 ounces brown certificates out
standing, 1922; green, 2211. Total, 1898.
The statement of the Imperial bank OF
Germany shows an increase in specie of
%, 656, 600 marks.
The Western sugar refining company of
San Francisco Friday advanced its rate
one-eighth of a cent per pound on all grades
in large lots. This is the first change in the
SNuGuu1C oAuNC ttAA4haAJ
a letter from the Northwest SAYS that
Minneapolis mills are sold ahead on flour and
farmers deliveries are falling off, so millers
are obliged to move wheat from country
elevators to ELL sales. This accounts for
Minneapolis squirt of receipts while Duluth
receipts are nominal.
An estimate of Chicago provision stocks
February l, is as follows New pork about
10000 barrels old pork, $4,000 barrels 4;
lard, 1000 tierceS; short ribs, 63, 000, 900 to
50, O00, coo pounds. Estimates on new pork
very widely The above figures on new
pork is an extreme, other guesses putting it
much lower.
The shipments of wheat from Eastern
European and Australian and South Amer
lean ports during the past week were $780,
coo bushels, of which AGO, 900 bushels were
to the United Kingdom and 400. 600 bushels
to the continent. The shipments the pre-
ceding week were l, $50, 0OO bushels.
Mercantile paper seems for the present to
be the feature of the market for investment
of funds at short time, as tirSt-class names
can be had at better advantage than time
loans. The ordinary quality, especially Of
houses in the South, does not meet with
much favor among local buyers, but is
taken by some out-of-town buyers for the
difference 1t apparently pays.
The cold weather that has prevailed dur
ing the past week has been highly favor
able to the sugar cane, the density of the
Juice having been considerably increased
thereby At Caibarien and Sagua, the last
districts in which grinding operations were
inauguraued. most of the few which have
not as yet lit their fires, viii commence
grinding as soon as their last preparations
are terminated.
The three big combination nail, iron and
steel mills. the Belmont Wheeling iron
company, and Benwood, have decided to
unite in one big concern, and have taken
action toward that end. The capital will
rcAch about So 600, 900, and it viii be one of
the biggest concerns OF the kind in the
country.
The tenth annual report of the statistics
Of coal production in Illinois, prepared by
the state bureau Of labor statistics, has
Just been issued for the year ending July l,