Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
ON CHANGE
Spot Cotton Unchanged and
Fairly Steady.
FUTURES GENERALLY HIGHER.
Some Traders Think Wheat is Drifting to
-. the Slough of Despond, But 1t
y Closed Higher, Nevertheless.
Weak Features-aIarkets.
Commercial and Financial


The four Atlantic ports cleared Wednes
day Tor export 3l5,247 bushels wheat, 6lS,
2s6 bushels corn, 20, 124 packages flour, IS.
US bushels oats, 50,6 51 bushels rye
The French commission company ha.
| bought IN New York for customer IOt
bales Of August cotton at $3.50, the Lowest
,tsRfice ever reached for that option.
7 New DIRK, at the close of business Wed.
nesday, reported export engagements there
/ and AT other ports, of 46S,0O0 bushels OF
/ wheat, 496, coo bushels corn, and $500 sacks
! and barrels of -four
The big failure reported on the 10th in
70 1cIS and St. Petersburg, Guensburg, was
said 10 be due chiefly to the decline in cot
Ton. 1t, nevertheless, had more or less
eject on the wheat market.
Stocks of contract grades of grain in
Chicago regular elevators at the close of
,s4syls mess Saturday last were 6,97l 1914 bush
els wheat, 633, 81 bushels OF corn, 529,O31
bushels oats, and 403, 40 bushels of rye
Bradstreets reported a decrease of ]. OS3,-
GOO bushels wheat in store east of the Rocky
mountains; decrease of 4Sl,00O bushels
west OF the Rockies; an increase of 1,4S6,-
OCO bushels corn an increase of ASP, 900
bushels oats.
Total eastbound shipments from Chicago
LAST week amounted to 81, 455 tons, against
'7O0,592 tons for the previous week and
1852 tons Tor the same week last year
Michigan Central led with 10, 154 tons.
The Tennessee coal, iron and railroad
company has finally agreed with the De
Bardeleben coal and IRON company upon
terms Of consolidation, the SlosS iron and
steel company having been left out, owing,
il is alleged. TO the demands made on ac-
count OF that corporation.
\ statement prepared at the treasury de-
h1rr
February there was 4 net increase of
80 iO5, fb4 in circulation and net increase
Of SIS, 152, $50 in money and bullion in the
'sreasury. The changes in circulation were
as follows:
Increase-Silver certificates, 5000, s79;
currency certificates, Sl2, 600, and
national bank notes, S652, Sal
Decrease-Gold coin, 1881: standard
silver dollars, S21l0; subsidiary silver,
SlO7, 254; gold certificates, S3.l77, $50; treas
ury notes. 1919, 766; United States notes,
s., sos, CPS The circulation per capita.
March l. was S24.74, and the changes in
money and bullion in the treasury were as
follows:
Increase-Gold coin. 1898. standard |
silver dollars, 81, 267, 10; subsidiary silver.
s292, $50; treasury notes, 4,0O2, 9IS: United |
States notes, 1896, CPS; silver bullion, |
s.. 460.SlI
Decrease-National bank notes, 81, $780,
464; gold bullion, 81, 024, 100
The agricultural department in its March
report complies an estimate of the worlds
wheat crop OF 1891. The total turns out
less sensational than one would imagine
Leaving out Bulgaria and Caucasia. not
included in prior statements, the total of
he worlds wheat crop for last year QS9U
was 8, 23S, Pas, 600 bushels, against 2. 2O3 SS9-
10 in 1880, 2,0S5 200, 600 in 1889, p 2I2 O00 900
n 1888 and :, 227, o00, 600 in 1857.
Reports from sixty different points in
Minnesota and the Dakotas show that there
5, on q safe estimate, nearly 100000
bushels Of wheat in farmers hands.