The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-06
COTTON

THE receip;s Of cotton to-day were fully
two hundred bales, good number
coming by rail, but the larger portion by
wagon. Prices are firm at our ouotutions
and buyers are anxious. There is uat os
much being stored Tor higher prices as there
was few weeks ago, planters generally h.
ing satisfied with the figures at which il is
now selling, II other interior towns are to
De Judged by Dallas, the stocks ON hand
will be materially reduced in the next Two
weeks. We quote the market firm to-day
at the following ruling prices;
Good Ordinary IA.
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There is a great diversity Of onin-
loH villa cotton men all over fine
country rs regards the yield of lSSi-2 and
Dallas operators are not different from
others. AZ the Board of Trade rooms TO-
daY, bear, and grizzly one at that, made
IlEures ior The bulls. He says the acreage
planted III cotton IN lSS0-l was 10, l2S 900,
ana that OF lsSl,2 Will be less than Il 900.
~ ~, me loWest. yield in ten years was in
1914 ., when, estimating by bales, the Weld
was 80 per cent. per acre He claims lint
the present crop is better than il was then
hut putting 1t al that per cent the crop of
lSSl-2 viii be 5,9500O0. The bears seem to
have the advantage of the bulls in iigurinG
rs wen as IN the nett reCcipts, the stocl; on
hand and the amounts in the hands of shin
hers IN this counlryand Europe. But they
should bear in mind 'thc best laid schemes
oil NICE and men gang aft aglec"
In Liverpool tho cotton market was
slaady; mlddlings, 1916 Orleans, q 1 JIG.
receipts lG,l0O, OF which 5000 were Ameri,
can. Sales, 10000, of which $3.50 were
American, and 1000 Tor expectation.
New York spots opened quiet and firm.
were reported stealier during the day
II 1916; sales, 273.
In New Orleans the market opcned and
closed quiet, without any change mid.
dlings, liz; sales, 1890.
The market in Galveston closed Quiet,
mlddlings. lie; receipts, ,3,927 sales, i.5i7,
81. Louis closed quiet; middlings. lll.
receipts, ,423; sales, 1S7; shipments. o3ll,
stock on hand, S5,IGS.
The cotton movement shows the nett
receipts to be lll3S7 bales AGAINST
sS,Gvo the same day last wear, nm
excess oI2S,S2 bales. The exports to Great
britain were 56,29l, continent 81 ,0S5, chan.
mel ports e56, France G,375. The stock on
hand at all the ports was t,lW,6j7, against
uzs,1@l NE u &c, corresponding day last year, an
excess of 9i2, lS6 bales
In order that our readers may understand
at q glance how the goods market stands in
relation TO the staple as compared with The
corresponding date in the past two years
We Introduce the following figures,
Mddllng cotton, 1870 IL i.2c. isSO
IL 1'Se; 1881, l2c, Standard shce,ings. lS7g
eci 1850, lie; 1881, &c, Printing cloths
0lXRi, lS79, 7.Sc; 1850, 1 i-Sc; iSSi, 3 t.9c
There me six large cotton mills In and
around petersburg, Va They have - 0l0
llWO bales of cotton and iganuGlctur,5
over ll,WN,0oO yards otoloth.
tily;hvn cotton mills in GEORGIA and
Others in process OF erection.
In North Carolina there are lny.lhrec
cotton mills in operation and six Others nro
IN progress and nearly completed rbcr,
are also four or five wooden mills In onera.
ton in "thc old North State wv"