Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-16
THE FIRST BALE
OF Co ION from the Memphis District
Received by Fulmer, Thorn
ton 4 Co..
And Sold for Forty Cents Per Pound
Raistd by Col. Hooker, of
Delta, Miss.

The first bale of cotton of the ne crop
from the Memphis district, shipped by
Col. 7. B. Hooker of Delta, Coaho-
ma county, Miss, to Messrs. Fulmer,
Thornton & Co., over the Louis
vile, New Orleans and Texas Railroad,
was received yesterday morning at 80
O'Clock. 1t was taken at once to the Cct-
ton Exchange, where it was sampled, and
labeled: ''To be sold at public outcry, at
IL O'Clock am" Col. A. NJ. Stoddard was
notified. and at the sppointed hour was
on hand, bubbling over with eloquence,
and, after speech worthy of a Roman
senator, the bidding was begun at 25 cents
per pound, and was very spirited until it
reached 40 cents, at which price it was sold
to Messrs. q. Falls 4 Co., and is now on its
way East. 1t classed middling extra ben
der staple, and weighed 3S4 pounds. The
shipper, Col. Hooker, is one of the most
successful cotton growers in the Missis-
sippi bottom. In ten years he has grown
from small renter to be the owner of a
large landed estate, and will have at least
500 bales more to follow. But for over
flows Col. Hooker would have been
veritable nabob. He says since the con-
struction of the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas Railroad, which has carried SO
much labor to the bottom, and is doing so
much for its development, that but one
thing remains to be done to make it the
finest country in the world, and that is,
email cotton tax 70 enable the
Lsvee Board of the First District
to negotiate $500, ,0o0 more levee bonds to
elevate and broaden the present levee, so
that the possibility of an overflow could
no longer exit This can be done and not
be in the least 'Jurdepsome to taxpayers,
whose benefits by the levee would simply
he incslculable. Messrs. Fulmer, thornton
f. L 81
the first new bale, have been Col. Hook
er's merchants ever since their first exist
ence, and have had success in this city
co-equal to that of Col. Hooker in Missis-
sippi. While Memphis was short in her
cotton receipts the last sesson on account
of short crops in this district, this firms
receipts increased 33 per cent, and their
grocery sales in similar proportion. MIR.
Fuimer, who gives his personal attention
to the selling OF AL the cotton consigned to
his firm, is second to none AZ q salesman
and Is familiar with cotton from the seed
ing for the crop until it goes into fabrics.
he was born on cotton plantation in
Georgia, and in that State gained his first
know ledge in mating and manufacturing
it. Within the last few years he has wis.,
tied all of the largest markets and manu-
factories OF this country and also of
Europe, TO learn their wants, with the
view # placing his customers cotton On
the highest markets at all times. Mr.
Thornton, of the firm, devotes his
entire time to Buying and selling groceries.
He buys for cash and sells low on terms
to suit good men. This firm doss large
advancing business in cash supplies and
are liberal wiia the.r customers. One ex-
traordinsry feature CT this firms business
is that Mr.. Fulmer never sells bill of
g cceries end Mr.. Thornton never sells a
bale OF cotton-each attends strictly to his
own department Mr.. Fulmer of the firm
owns large planting interest in the First
district, and near Col. Hooker, aud fully
concurs in his views of a cotton tax.
MOrsuary Report.
Mortality report for the week ending
Saturday, August 10, 1885, lat O'Clock pm.