The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24


says that for the weel, ending Friday, the
total receipts have reached 105, 403 bales,
against 145, 74l bales last week, 159,30S
bales the previous week and 1924 bales
three weeks since, making the total receipts
since the 1st of September, 1887, 1896, 002
bales, against 4, 213,6 41 bales for the same
period OF lS8G-87, showing an increase since
September ], 1887, of 1S2, 1861 bales.
The exports for the week reach total of
176,S bales of which 12G, 226 were to
Great Britain, 1865 to France and 1896
to the rest Of the continent.
The total sales for forward delivery for the
week are 733, 600 bales. For immediate de
livery The total sales foot UP this week $50
bales, including $40 Tor consumption, and
20 for speculation. OF the above 100 bales
were to arrive.
The imports into continental ports
have been $4,000 bales. There has been
decrease in the cotton in sight tonight of
ISL ,0G4 bales as compared with the same
date Of 1887, decrease of q, :3}35 bales as
compared with the corresponding date of
1856 and decrease of 1914 bales as COM
pared with 1885.
The old interior stocks have decreased
during the week II ,655 bales and are tonight
59,4l0 bales more than at the same period
last year. The receipts at the same towns
have been 1850 bales less than the same
week last year, and since September / the
receipts at all the towns are 1G4, 1888 bales
more than for the same time in 1867.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September ] 1887, are 1876, 004; in
1867, were 1852 900 bales, in 1856,
were 4, 453, S12 bales. Although the receipts
at the outports the past week were 1C5. 403
bales, the actual movement from plantations
was only 81. 033 bales, the balance being
taken from the stocks at the interior towns.
Last year the receipts from the plantations
for the same week We're l32, 567 bales and
for 1886, they were SO, 567 bales.
The increase in amount in sight tonight,
as compared with last year, is 5l5, 965 bales,
the increase as compared with 1856 is
800, 1872 bales and the increase over 18S4-5
is 900, 100 bales.
The Chronicle says that the speculation
in cotton for future delivery at New York
has been quite active for the week under re-
view. The opening was buoyant. The
reduced movement of the crop, although
said to be due in part to the severe weather
in the southwest was made the basis of an
active speculation, short crop estimates be-
ing again asserted with considerable peril
nacity, and the statistical position pointed
to; but the bears claimed that all this had
been "discounted." But the advance con
Nnued until this crop had risen 3Ga35 points
ffo----rffFe lowest figures of the present week
(Which occurred in the course of Tuesday,
and then the buying came to halt Much
of tie short interest" had in the mean
time been eliminated, and although receipts
at the ports continued small, Liverpool
weakened on Wednesday and New York
followed that; but there was q partial re-
coyery, with the difference, however, that
the early months were the weakest instead
of the strongest, as for some days previously,
and April, instead of March, became the
leading month in the volume of business.
Thursday weak opening under duh Liv-
erpool advices was followed by a recovery
on the smaller receipts at the ports, and
finally there was an irregular advance, the
interior movement being much reduced and
the receipts at Memphis and ST. Louis nota-
bly, small. Friday there was an early adj
vance on the continued small crop move
ment, but it was fully lost under sales to
realize, interior stocks being maintained at
pretty full figures. Cotton on the spot be-
gins to show some accumulation and the
demand is very slow, but in sympathy with
the speculative market quotations advanced
Lice. on Saturday and &c. on Tuesday.
But on Wednesday there was a decline Of
Lice, which was recovered Friday, and
middling uplands closed at 10Sc.
The Chronicles Geographic weather re-
ports from the south indicate decided drop
in temperature during the week, especially
in the southwest, the thermometer register
ing as low as four degrees above zero at
Palestine, Texas, and two above at Nash
Vile. Frost, snow and ice are reported in
many sections. The bad weather and con-
sequent poor roads have interfered with the
marketing, crtailing to an extent receipts
at the ports and interior towns.
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