Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-26

/ Az ,625 bales. This would place the
total crop at b.522, l3l bales .snd It may
be regarded BY many as sgerS low ssti
mate. Buyers in the main incline Ia
high, estimates, but The one referred to
put bis ideas On paper as follows Es-
timated decrease in Texas 554,375
bales, reducing the total there 10 ! 900
600 bales; decrease in Mississippi
100, 900 bales, total yield $50 900; de.
crease in Alabama 10000, total yield
632, 900; decrease in Georgia 207 900
bales, total yield 693,OOO; decrease in
Arkansaw l29,5OO bales, total yield
$40, 800; decrease in Louisiana 1880
bales, total yield 474,5OOi decrease in
Tennessee 1880 bales, total yield
ZIG, $50; decrease ia the CarolinAs,
Florida and Virginia l9A5OO, total
yield | 100000. The percentage of
decrease is set downAs follows; Flor-
ida 5 per cent, North Carolina, Is per
cent; Tennessee, 10 per cent; South
Carolina. 20 per cent Alabama, q
per cent; Georgia, 23per cent; Texas,
l2l per cent in northern and IS per
cent in southern and central; Missis-
sippi, l5per cent gain in the bottoms
and 95-peT' cent lossy in the hills or
uplandG Losisiana, 10 Der cent 10
crease 10 bottoms and 80 per cent loss
in u plahds, Atkansaw, 20 percent in
crease in bottoms, and 30 per cant de.
crease in the uplands. The foregoing
may be a little wild as to the increase
in the river valley districts, but the
heavy percentage Of loss in the hills
Of many localities is perhaps ovev the
mark. AT all events a total decrease
Of nearly 100000 bales in the crop as
compared with last year, is little
more liberal than cotton buyers are
generally in the ha b estimating.
The cotton in sight,or what is known
as the worlds visible supply, is the
heaviest on record at this particular
date. The total on Saturday last was
2,6j8, 293 bales; excess over last year
24O,7O7; over the year before l39, 459;
over 1879, 673,S5l; over 1878, 822, l6l;
over 1877, SO6,755; over 1876, l6S,43S;
over 1875, 46O,O59 bales, and in greater
excess for most years away back to
1869, and beyond. The shipments to
Europe from the United States this
season show a decrease as compared
with last year for the same time
amounting to l40,8l0 beles.
The cotton movement from India
this season exhibits decrease Of
263, 400 bales as compared with last
year, though it is $4,000 in excess Of
the previous year. The total ship
ments from India to all Europe from
the FIRST Of the present year to 10th
inst. was l,429,606 bales. Advices
from India by latest mails report the
cotton crop prospects favorable for
an average yield. The monsoon had
been satisfactory and the rains were
all that could be desired, except in a
few localities.
The New York market closed firm
and the same as at the opening last
Monday, when prices advanced 1,16c
above the closing figure of the Satur-
day previous. Middling, 10lc. Sales
for the week, 1859 bales. Stock, 1885, 83
bales. Futures closed easy at 2 to 10
points higher than at last weeks
close, as follows: Deliveries for
November, lO55alO6O; December,
l0.6Oa-.-; January, 10.70,l07l;
February, 1Os5llOs6i March, 1O99a
ll.0G; April, 1l.l3ll1.14; May,
lL26a-.-; June, ll,37al1.3S; July,
11.49A1l.5O; August, 11.5sall.6O.
The New Orleans market closed
firm with sales for the week Of 1900
bales. Middling, 1Osc, and l.l6c
above the opening price, the advance
occurring on Monday, the 18th inst.
Stsck on hand, 9Ol,S9S bales. The
future market closed dull at to 5
points below last weeks figures, with
total sales for the week Of 1877, 300
bales.
The Liverpool future market closed
dull at 2 to 3,64d above last weeks
closing price. Spot deliveries steady
and the same as week ago, UplandS,
8 l5,l6d; orleans, GID, Sales for the
week ending Friday, $4,000 bales;
weeks receipts, 100000. Total since
since September Isl, 499,5OO, against
675,OOO last year. Total stocks, 1872.
600, against $4,000. Stock aAoat,
$4,000, against 2SS,OOO.
Total receipts Of cotton at all U.
s. ports last Saturday were 29,4l9
bales; decrease from the same day
last year Of 1901 bales. Total at
all ports last week, 22O,476
bales, and 1881 less than for the
same time last year. Total this season,
2,2l5,798 bales, and 9i3 more than
last year for the same period; also no.
81 more than for theyear before. Total
shipments this season, 1,1O6,993; last
year same time, 247,SO3; year before,
9S6,356. Total stocks, 943,2s3; same
time last year, 735,O29; year before,
9O6,4O4.
General Trade.
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