The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02
THE OUTLOOK is GOOD.
Prospects for Busy Season Could Hardly
Be Better.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR HOUSTON
VIII Disbursc Freely Daring the
Coming Cotton season.

Yesterday the new bushes season opened.
and. while there was no squirt or boom, It
lis safe to say that few years have. ON the
first OF September. opened with brighter
promise OF good seasons business.
Houston is the great commercial center oil
the State. II can not boast OF being as large
in area as San Antonio which Is thirty six
square miles, while Houston has but nine
square miles. When II comes to business.
Icial and Industrial center Of Texas.
This year the outlook Is decidedly encour-
aging. II is estimated that the Texas cot
ton crop will amount to 100000 bales. OF
this Houston will receive from So to 70 per
cent OF the entire amount. Consequently
Houston Will profit immensely by the big
cotton crop.
The present crop is Just beginning 10 move
forward. 1t has been retarded by bad seasons
in the early stages of its growth, but now
that Il has started to move the marketing
win be done at a lively rate.
In tho picking, ginning, COMPRISING and
transporting to seaboard for export the Texas
cotton crop thousands OF hands are employed
and millions OF money spent. Houston gets
The greater share Of this benefit. The whole
sale houses in Houston supply the interior
merchants, who in turn furnish the planter
ana his help. This Of course brings money
TO Houston
Then It must be taken into consideration
that in the busy season the railroads employ
more men In every department, and this
money Is spent in Houston
The big congresses and oil mills located
here give employment to thousands of hands.
the lowest wages being $3.50 a day.
It Is therefore safe to say that when the
cotton season gets under full Roadway there
Will be an extra $4,000 disbursed in Hous-
ton every Saturday night. to say nothing
OF the great monthly pay rolls Of the South
ern Pacific, Central and other roads cen
tering here.
Therefore taken as a whole, the fall ana
winter outlook for Houston is bright. and
pessimsts should take back seat.
For some time past there has been fam
Inc of Texas eggs and local jobbers and com
mission houses can not secure supplies. one
interior merchant says that in his twenty
Ave years experience he never knew eggs
to he so scarce. Texas annually markets
hundreds of thousands of cases OF eggs and
yat but few realize the enormous amount
of money the egg crop Is worth
Mt. H. G. F. Candage the president OF the
Farmers National congress. recognized in
his opening speech at Baltimore that large
portion OF American prosperity is due to the
industrious American hen. He demonstrated
by statistical proofs that the energetic bid
dies vi the United States, through habits Of
early rising and by attending strictly to busl-
ness seven days in the week. annually lay
800 900 worth of eggs. But this is not all
They rear families that eventually go on
the market as roastera and broilers, and this
total value OF $4,000, 0G0
Great rs the American hon as u wealth
producer. Her annual output has bigger
cash value than the annual combined product
IN colo Of the Klondiko, Nome aud tho Trans
Naal.
Receipts OF Texas fruit yesterday were
light and good prices were obtained Tho
only drawback was the rainy weather, which
prevented peddlers getting about and de-
TERED many from visiting the big market,
Tho Box-Saunders Commission company
succeeds tho Box Bell Saunders Commission
company of this oity, Mr. A. . Bell with
drawing from tho firm by mutual consent
The above firm Will continue the business
at their former location, Houston stock yards
All tho banks viii be closed Monday In
observance Of Labor Day The merchandise
brokers will also observe the day.
Condensed milk prices are nrm and arc
said to be liable to further advances.
II. h. Williamson yesterday unloaded
car OF mixed California fruit, consisting OF
peaches, pears, nectarluos. toksy and white
and black grapes.