Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-30
ON 'CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Closed Lower at
Liverpool.
FUTURES LOSE A FEW POINTS.
Wheat See-Sawed All Day, Finally Clos
ing Lcwer-Oorn and Oats In
Sympathy-Hog Products
Some Weaker.
ON CHANGE.
Commercial Dots.

Exports of wheat from San Francisco last
week were four cargoes.
The Rice trust deal at New Orleans is
said to have been consummated.
Chicago is complaining of scarcity of cars
for Eastern shipment.
The quantity of -four and wheat on pas
sage to European markets during the past
week increased 100, 900 bushels, and corn
$50, 900 bushels.
The Liverpool Corn Trade News esti-
mates the weekly requirements of maize in
the United Kingdom and on tke continent
to be ., 100000 bushels.
The four Atlantic ports cleared yesterday
226.550 bushels of wheat, 80, 22S3 packages of
-four, $4,000 bushels corn, 80, OILS bushels of
oats and 16, S41 bushels Of rye.
Cornegie brothers have signed contract
for the delivery to the bessemer works of
upward of 1000, 600 tons of iron ore.
The Indian crop advices report the condi-
ton of wheat good on 100000 acres, dis
couraging on 14.000000 acres, while there
are no returns from 10000, 600 acres.
Bradstreet's reported 2 decrease last
week of 4O3, 900 bushels in wheat stocks
east of the Rocky mountains, a decrease of
633, 600 bushels west of the Rockies, a de-
crease of 600 bushels in corn, an in
crease of $4,000 bushels in oats.
The cotton mills in the Southern states
in 1890 consumed G00,GO0 bales, or one
zfa9rth of the entire quantity worked up in
wis country that year. This is a gain over
1850 of more than 100000 bales The pro-
duction of iron ore in the South in 1891 was
one-fourth OF the output of Great Britain.
The English look with envy at the re-
markable growth of the coal output of this
country. A comparison of the number of
square miles of coal discovered in the
two countries gives for the United States
192, 900, while England has II, 900 and Nova
Scotia is, 000. In 1860 the United States
mined y, 1856, $50 tons of anthracite coal and
in 1891 IS, $40 $40 tons. The showing for
sbituminous for the same years gives for
1860 5,775, 070 tons and for 1891 %, 4g6, 900
tons.
In a review of the wool trade the past
wear a prominent London firm SAYS: 1t
would appear the iInportations of Austria
Ian and Cape woods into Europe and
America had increased from $4,000 bales
in 1860 TO zoos, 600 bales in 1891, and that
the value had increased from &c. $50, 900 to
co, O67, 600, so that while quantity has in
creased over seven and half fold, values
have increased only four fold.
From the statement of the imports and
exports of domestic merchandise of the
United States for the moGth of November
last and the previous eleven months, it
seems that for the month, in comparison
with the same month last year, the imports
increased 1861, IA, and for the eleven
months decreased SS,727, 4S9. The imports
of goods free of duty increased for the
month IS. 1885,, $50, and for the eleven months
sl25, 81, 0TO, while the goods subject to duty
decreased 81, 6T2, 1l2, and $129, 59S. 559 for
the same periods respectively.
The board Of trade returns Of the United
Kingdom for the past year do notshow that
expansion that has bean usual for some
years past. The total imports for the year
amounted to e4S5, 69l, 0G0, or an increase OF
3.5 per cent, while the exports of domestic
produce amounted TO e247, 272, coo, or a de-
crease Of 62 per cent as compared with the
previous year. The increase on the imports
is wholly made up Of additional receipts OF
breaastuffs, cotton and wool Of cotton