Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-10
Cotton.

week sum up ll0O bales, 75O to ex-
porters and 400 to spinners, closing
firm at total advance over last Mon.
day of to on all classes, prices going up
sc on Thursday afternoon and lc on
Saturday. Quotations as follows: Or
dinary lOIc, good ordinary lite, low
middling 12sc, middling l24c, good
middling, 1zac, middling fair I3. OFF
colors 10 lower.
The New York market closed steady
at 1-16c above Fridays prices, and
5-16c higher than week ago. Sales
Saturday, 500 bales; stock on hand.
1884, bales. Futures closed firm at
9 to 10 points above the day before,
and an advance tor the week of 40
points on July, 36 on August, 81 on
September, q on October, 38 on No.
vember, 81 on December and 20 to 25
on forward months.
The New Orleans market closed
firm at an advance of to, and sales Of
$500 bales during the week. Middling
1870, Stock on hand 43,369 bales.
Futures 40 points up during the week
on July, 81 on August, and II to 10
points on the forward months.
The Liverpool cotton market closed
steady at an advance Of 1-l6d during
the week. Uplands 6 1916, Orleans
7Bd.
Receipts of cotton at all U. s. ports
on Saturday were 1861 bales,
and 1144 less than for the same day
last year. Total receipts for the
week ending Friday were 846l bales,
and 1867 less than last year for the
same week. Receipts at all ports since
September 1st sum up 1881 $50 bales
and are ,054,443 less than last year;
also 265, 124 less than the year before at
the same date. Total shipments
abroad this and the two previous
years respectively have been 3,4l7, ,46a
bales, against 4,3l2,750 and 3,676,8l4
bales. Stocks at present are 255, 1858
bales, against 338, ,O64 and 257, ,9l7 last
year and the year before at the same
time.
The total cotton movement for the
present season to July 7th, gives the
quantity of cotton which had come
in sight from September 1st to thai
time at 5,320,927 bales, and l, ,12l, ,37l
less than last year. OF this $4,000
bales is set down for Southern con.
sumption, AGA, 1886 bales as overland
movement and 4,627 ,49l bales as re.
ceipts at the ports. The Southern
consumption is $4,000 more than last
year for the same time, while the
overland movement is 43,463 bales
less. These figures are from last Sat
urday's Financial Chronicle.
The bucket shops have shut dowr
on cotton futures for July, August
and September in New York, anG
July and August at New Orleans
They are afraid of the anticipated
squeeze.
Six firms in New York own the
entire stock of cotton on hand
amounting to 100000 bales, and al
New Orleans there are only 22,0O(
bales, not on shipboard; while al
interior towns stocks are very light
hence the mauipulators are having ar
easy thing in their corner in opera
tions. The leading manipulation il
said to be Memphis cotton man.
The Worlds visible supply Of cot
ton on Saturday last was ,943,984
bales, a decrease compared with last
year at the same time Of 272,68l bales
and an increase over the year before
Of l24,343 bales; also an increase o.
4S2, ,697 bales over 1879 at the same
date. The foregoing are Financia'
Chronicle figures.
LIVERPOOL, July 10, 0,l:30 p. m.-Cottor
opened active and frmer, now l-l6c
higeer. Uplands, I'd; Orleans, 3-l6d
Sales to-day, 1900 bales Receipts
6l0O bales, American 5000. Futures are
firm.
New YORK, July 10, 12;4O p.m.-Cot
, ton firm. Ordinary, 10 5-l6c; good ordi
nary, II 11-l6c; low middling, u 9-16c
mddling, l3c; good middling, 1870
, middling fair, 141Sc; fair, l4}sc. Futures
are weak at l to 4 points below Saturdays
closing prices.
COTTON STATEMENT.
July 10. 1882.
Stock, September l, 1ssi........ S,lS
Received to-day......"....."."",. %
Received previously. 5o3-o5o,6O
shipped to-day. 10 --SlS,YS
; Shipped acknowledgements ,303-
Home Consumption TO date.w l37-3S6, ,45
Stock running aCoount."-.",,....,......"" ,SS
IMPORTS.
! Receipts thus far this week.......,...-. Z
Receipts thus far last week""..."..... ~
To-day perm. & @. r. R...,............. i
To day per NJ. q 7. X. R..."".."........ :
To-day per J., X N. =. R.r.,."".""."... Il
{ To-day per NJ. & l.. II. r. R............. =
To-day per c., .. 4 S. W. r. R..""-". :
To-day per steam amers..........."...-.......... 1
To-day per
REPORTS,
= Thus far this week........-.".,..""........ 5S
Thus far last IL
l To-day per NJ. h O. X. R......................
a To-day per NJ. h T. r. R......................
To-day per L. 4 N. r. R.R......................
! To-day per steamers h,................
To-day per steamers south.........-.......