Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-23

COTTON ESTIMATES AND MOVEMENTS
Many Of our cotton savants are fig
uring on atotal crop this year Of $780,
900 bales, and that we will receive
from now to the close of the Season
more than was received last year.
Recently collected statistics would
bear out the conclusion that they will
not be much over the mark. The total
receipts at all American ports, or the
amount OF the present crop that
has come into sight for
the present season, now reaches
All, 432 bales. The receipts
last year, from the close of February
to the end of the season, was 6l8,53l
bales, and the prospects point to as
much, perhaps more, this year. Allow
a hundred thousand bales from now to
the close Of February and we have a
total for the present year of about
4,92O,0OO bales, exclusive of
cotton consumed in the
South, say 100000 bales,
it was $4,000 last year, also 100000
bales for the inland movement, and
We have O total estimated crop of
5,496,OO0 bales. Many believe these
figures will not be far from the mark,
but, if anything, are slightly under it.
The excess Of receipts to date over
LAST year is now 4O3,7 76 bales. The
table Of receipts from this date to the
close Of last year is interesting
to those who make a study Of
cotton, and a few hereabouts do. From
the 14th Of February to the close Of
March the receipts we're 244,5OO bales,
or about 122, 900 per week. During
March the receipts we're 263, 913 bales;
April, 175,s5O bales; May, 97,14O
bales; June, 29,8O4 bales; July,
1887 bales, and August, 1887
bales. The total receipts to
this date last year was 3,723,656
bales, and the year before 3,46O,l92
bales, the total crop that year being
4,773,865 bales, and last year 5,074,l55
bales. In this connection the cotton
movement for the past five months of
the present year, IS reported by the
national cotton exchange, is a matter
Of concern to every cotton operator.
The figures show the overland move
ment during these FIVE months to have
been 392,446 bales, against 2l7,891
bales last year and 1892 bales the
year before for the same time. The
total overland movement last year to
the close Of August was 1882
bales against 9 1906 bales the
year before. The total receipts this
year, including the overland amount,
after making proper deductions for
the FIVE months, is 4,153, 165 bales, to
which add last years receipts after
this time and the southern consump-
ton, and the total will reach 5,75l,.
Az bales, which is somewhere neal
the highest estimates made by the
Liverpool operators. The highest
figures given hereabouts is in the
vicinity Of 100000 bales. The
national cotton exchange report
shows that during the FIVE months
ending January 3lst, Of thC
present year, 1,120,226 bales o.
cotton were taken for northern
consumption, an excess over last veal
Of 424,850 bales. During the same
time the shipments to Europe wer,
this year 2,117, 569 bales, an Excess
over last year of 141 $50 bales. o
this gears foreign shipments l 1880 0
went to England, 21S,965 to France
G)6,51S to continental Europe and 13,
7s6 bales up the English channel. TIL
receipts at the ports continue to b
liberal, and the anticipated falling O
has not yet set in, hence tn
high crop men at present hav
the best Of it. The staple continue
to flow in quite freely, especially
the markets tributary TO the MississiI
ri river valley, and it is a patent fax
that a considerable quantity Of cotto
is yet in the fields, ungathered. Ov,
in Crittendeu county, Arkansas, opp,
site this point, hands were at work a
Of last week picking out cotton fro
fields where it is thick. This,
course, will have but little effect {
the general result, but it adds to Il
conviction that a considerable part