Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-07
WITH TEXAS AS A TEXT
Secretary Hester Makes Some Com parative Statements as to the
 Cotton Movement.

NEW ORLEANS, La., April 6.-The New Orleans cotton exchange statement of the cotton crop movement from the gulf and Atlantic states, just issued by Secretary Hester, shows actual deliveries from the state of Texas for the first seven months of the season to the close of March, inclusive, of 8, ,055, ,565 bales, against 1,Ss0 ,052 bales for the same time last season, making net increase of l ,175, 513 bales. The deliveries at the Texas seaboard show an increase of 6l5, ,282 bales. The shipments via Cairo and St. Louis were 145 ,407 bales; to New Orleans 375 ,934 bales, and rail shipments to Mexico 32 ,262 bales, while the shipments across tbe Mississippi river north of St. Louis have decreased 13, 372 bales. The de liveries from the state of Texas from and after March 31 last year were 179 ,008 bales, the commercial crop of Texas last year having been ?, ,059 ,060 bales.
 statement recently issued, giving an analysis of the movement ot cotton in sight, divides the cotton belt into three groups, viz: First, Texas and the India Territory; second, the other gulf states, embracing Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis- sippi and Tennessee; third, the Atlantic states, embracing North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. This analysis shows the crop brought into sight for the first seven months of the season to the close of March, inclusive: Texas, 8, ,OS6 1888 bales, against 1 ,892, ,S62 in 1894 and l ,sS5 ,b72 in 1893; other g uli states, 2,602 ,576, against 2,031 1884 in 1894 and ,647 ,979 in 1888; Atlantic states, 8, ,364 ,0C4, against 2,992 ,l5o in 1894 and 9, ,436 ,454 in 1893.
 The statement does not divide Texas and the other gulf states for 1S92-the g, ,035, 900 crop year--as there were no subsequent monthly figures made up for Texas in that year, but il gives the following compari- sons between this year and 1892:
 Texas and other gulf states together this year, 5,6S9, 464 bales, against 5, ,143 ,910 in 1892; Atlantic states this year, 3,364 .004, against 8 ,250 1873 in 1892. Excess compared with 1892 in 1exas and other gulf states, 545, ,654; excess compared with 1892 in At lantic states, 113, ,625 bales.
 The difference In the Texas crop as given above and Texas tin sight' consists of the cotton actually shipped out of the state to the close of March, whereas the in sight" includes also stocks at counted interior towns at the close of March in excess of September l.
 An important feature in this report is the showing of the deliveries from the diff ferent groups after the close of March in the first three years. There were from Texas 166, 198 bales in 1894 and 172, ,851 in 1898; from other gull states, 1s4 33s in O her gulf states together 290, ,S22 in 1893 ,and $50, ,000 In 1892. In 1892, the {, ,035 GOO crop year, Texas and the Indian territory furn- ished 26h per cent. of the total crop. Ap- plying this to the amount in sight to March 31, of that year, gives Texas 2, 224. .O0U bales and the other gulf states 2, 219 ,000 bales, in- dicating an increase for the seven months of this year over 1892 for Texas of 863, ,000 and decrease for the other gulf states of 817, coo. This shows that compared with 1892, Texas had furnished S6S ,000 more and the Atlantic states 113 900 more. or say to. gether 976, GOO bales. This has been offsett by falling if of s17 1000 bales irf the gulf statss, making the net excess of the total lin sightn for the United States, March 3I, 859. GOO bales.