The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-20
BUSINESS BAROMETER
|,,,s d Commodities and on Index to
"a Conditions Existing In the Markets.
/, WEEK HAS BEEN UNSATISFACTORY
and september Hotter Months
xoycmbcr-Cotton Receipts
~. vat Help General business.
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,ys.,.ton. Saturday. November 10.

Office OF Tho Post,
u.n.ton. Saturday. November 10. /
ns.t week has been unsatisfactory IN
c,rcles; In fact, jobbers and others
my. ,hs volume OF business for the month
NO hohind that OF August or September
are at a loss to account for the re-
I,kabIe shrinkase.
..s,,s,s moving freely and shows up well
.arr clearings, but this has no effect
= aa,av IN peace negotiations is one reason
" ~ ,nr the prevailing dizziness which is
.onflned to Houston or to Texas but ex-
A. oyer the whole country.
.,,s,e information and observations oil
,,ho travel over tho country are In d.
..,,,si,jon to the weekly trade reports
Nv DUN and Bradstreet's. In Chicago
.,..raa Of houses are tcnantless and thou
4, az, out of employment, yet the COM
s,,sl agencies, which base their returns on
! clearlnss, find times brisk. In the big
u the department stores and trusts arc
,ssnonslble for the commercial paralysis.
,bc large cities are not the only suffer-
invisible.
n commercial world realizes that some
I, Is radically wrong but can no moro To-
The cause than can the war investigat-
committee locate the blame for the blum
In the home camps during the recent
10 this country had with Spain.
The Hide Market.
ldss are weak and lower. The threat OF
ms, TO close down for four months is
n the reasons ascribed. The Chicago
"a md Leather Reporter thus reviews the
kct for country hides:
hi market is steady. The trading is lin
"a lots OF hides offered for ton days de-
ry. The present movement Is still on old
ers on Monday one car of bluffs sold at
which price is still bid by some tanners
arc sorely In need of hides. The receipts
The past week and SO far this week are
in to the regular average The Wis
in W MINERS n, ore out of the market for the
being. They say there will be no in
cment for them until bluffs have
rbed q DC basis. There are possibly three
Of bluffs all told in the. market this week
delivery inside of tcu days. The tanners
hide dealers are almost unanimous in
If opinions that there will be no liberal
fjur until bluffs are forced down to a DC
&. bluffs 10 to 60 pounds free of brands
grubs, are firm and ateady at 9Ac. One
was sold Monday ut that figure, with the
and rs at sac
4. ! extreme light hides % to 40 pounds
scarce. Some small lots were sold at
g. with the seconds at 91sc.
o. native steer hides 60 pounds and over,
OF brands and grubs. are scarce and nom
at 9i9d9Sc, with the second selection at
less One dealer is holding about 200
Ice hides He asks 10c and &c for the lot.
ril heavy native COW hides 60 pounds and
l. free of brands and grubs. are stronger.
Ing the closing days of last week two cars
pounds aud up sold to a Milwaukee tanner
NC, with the seconds at &c for ten days.
very.
randed steers and cows are dull and nom
at S9Gsa.c flat, while tanners refuse to
over SdShc.
bills are dun and neglected. They are held
EdSEc flat
Trade Notes.
lfkeys are in good demand at quotations
all receipts find ready sale.
eempson & Co. will have a car of bananas
Monday. The market is now bare and 1t
been difficult to obtain supplies on ac-
IT OF the wrecking of fruit vessels.
10 Westerman Produce company are in
Flpt OF car of choice assorted apples
Z. Jones reports country trade as good
city trade decidedly slack.
Xas eggs are still scarce and are firm at
lents In case lots.
ccrding to mall advices from Maine very
sardinc hsh are being caught. and most
Riese are too large even for mustards.
fferoing to a cable Sicily shelled almonds
prompt shipment are not procurablo at
than Alsc. From Malaga cable was
ved quoting BIS cd for prime and o5s sd
selected for immediate shipment
nned red salmon is reported to have sold
John, n. B., recently for So per case
,ots. Purchases at that figure have so
cea stocks there that $5.25 Is now the ask
price, with few sales.
y GAINED that when cotton passed be-
. lie cent mark, says the New York Com
~. II eNtingnished the employment of
help In Its cultivation In Texas, where
cent OF the labor expended was already
ey women and children, members of the
81 family who received no wages. With
n acre. '" 10 p". "'
!eported that the total yield of Per-
aa!ss thls year will be $1,000 cases,
~ .ov,vo for last year. Persia is suffer-
,oaa famine IN some other crops. which
'e i 70 curtail exports and prevent the
~ ,oeral shipments to America and
e ,Ilu. Europe Prices are likely to remain
'"n' win advancing tendency.