Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
COTTON MATTERS.

in the same line of business h that
CITY and New York, have sppar-
entity formed a combine, ii not a
conspiracy, TO depress the price OF
cotton by sending out III their
legged "circulars" to the press. the
most exaggerated reports relative
tc the magnitude OF the coming
cotton crop, ald discOuntlng all the
ienorts as to the damage done the
crop by the continued wet weather,
and the result has been that they
have succeeded in bearing the price
Of the staple down to a point 1t has
not reached since the war, Ii thar
reports did not influence the mark
ct ta the disastrous extent thal
they do, We might regard scme sf
them as huge Jokes, but they ar
really SeIIouS, and it is time for tif
people of the cotton region. tho$
Who are the suileiera 10y these uA
lust and unwarrauted reports, I,
Use IN their might and endeavOT u
pat It stop to them II Sell.detens8'
\ correspondent al the NicksOur91
mmerciaI>Ierald thus refers t9
a most ridiculous report sent out bS
McElroy & Co., some days agos
Will Texas make l5,GOO,0Oq
bales? she surely will, for McEIJ \
roy, the great cotton 'depTessorl
says IN his last circular:
Zone ot our correspondents IN
Southern Texas writes under date
of the 1oth that on recent tOur
through dozen counties in that
territory, he was much impressed
IS the match!eSs vlgOr OF the crop,
and the rich frnitaSe of The plant,
aud tnat despite the recent reports
of damage from drouth, the top
crop there alone, even it frost
should appear at the average date,
will make bale to the acre. We
consider this Information very re
liable
d" Now the top crop represents
about One>tOurth of sta 5
average, therefore that matchless,
vigorous iexas cotton should pro
duce tour bales per acre,
"Even Mulhatton might exclaim :
MirabiIe dictu."
This is only in keeping with the
average cotton reports sent out by
this firm daily. Their sole Ohjpc'
and purpose is 10 bear the cotton
market in The interest OF them
selves, and the great misfortune l.
that they are succeeuIrg in dong
so In the most effective manner
What the planters ought to do, II
they aie anie, Is TO hold their crops
back until the scarcity OF the staple
euhanees the demand, aud then
they may be able to get approx
mately what their crop is worth.
The rapid marketing of the STAPLE
lends color to the IeportS of al
unusually big crop, and unIess the
movement Is checked prices al,
g,Ing much below the present RUN
Gus fgures.-CUncOrdia Sentinel.
The New York Democracy in
their state Convention last Wed
neSday uomir ated Senator DAVID
L Hill for Governor. Tue Wisdom
of ihe Nomination is Questioned bS
man> DrmOcratS both within and
without ,hp Emul,- State.
Concogdia Sentinrl: TIE new
ut the accinrnt to Hon. Joseph B
| Bnatuer. of Catahnula parish, OF
Wednesday !aHt, by which he lo>I
one of his aims was received in vi.
dAlIa, where he was so well aDG
fdvorably known, with the mos
profound regret NJ, Boatner, il
seems, was working about the gir
on LIanada plantation, where ht
was getting Oat lot of cotton
when ty some means his arm be,
cIme caught III The machinery ano
was 80 badly lacerated and crushed
that ampntatlon was neces5a y, th,
operation being performed at once
hat not without a great deal a