New-York tribune., 1895-11-05
BRITISH SPINNERS BCTING COTTON
SALES OF 10 600 BALES IN LrvERPooI'-pEcREAs-
ING RECEIPTS N THE SOUTH

SALES OF 1900 BALES IN LrvERPooL-pEcKEAs-
ING RECEIPTS IN THE SOUTH
The cotton market was largely OF an ante-honcay
character yesterday. Total sales on the Ne"-io'A
Cotton Exchange only amounted to 1851" oaies'
There was an unexpected upft IN Liverpool "hSre
futures advanced 3-64 to 4-64 receded Nttle' out
closed 2s4 20 3-e4 above Saturday. Spo, sales there
r,a-s - 600 bales which seemed sufficient refuta-
ton NJ the talk OF poor business and short time IN
Lancashire Quotations on the New-fork cotton
Exchange opened u 10 IS points UP. but under ths
nrevalling dulness and selling By Lehman
Brothers and the German brigade. prices eased on.
closing to better than Saturday.
The port receipts were remarkably small. only
as 2 against S. ss3 last year. and 692 In 1888 when
the crop was 10000. Houston got the ridiculous
amount OF 32S ba.es, against l5oss last year. Shs
expects 1000 to-day against 25.5Oo last year New
Orleans expects 1900 TO lso0o bales. against @o"
last year. The bears assert that these small hs-
ures can only be accounted for on the theory that
farmers are holding back their cotton. Advices from
the South bearing this question are eagerly read
Among those received yesterday were the followlns
Mr. Frank Fi,zhugh, OF the firm OF Martin. Wise e
Ftzhugh. mas received from the house OF MS hrrn
in Paris Tex. the following letter: I'VE sent you a
message over the private wire this morning saying
George Price who manages our Greenv.e territory,
including eighteen buying points He had requested
bcs, estimate they could Of the total receipts fer
the season and IL ne e, report, tnat sney assresa'e '
ing of OF about 6.4. per cent We don't near that
the farmers holding 10 any extent
A Hesrne Tex special says: New Orleans Nov:
4-Mr carr, who has supervision OF 100 acres OK
Brazos plantations, says that all the farms COM
blned will make 50 per cent less than last year;
that the large county OF BraZos viii average .ess
than half Of last year San Patrico, extreme South
Texas, 50 per cent short on account OF drouth ant
Mexican weevil; many farmers won't plant cotton
next year account OF Mexican weevil. This in
sect Is IN Cameron. Milan and other counties in
Central Texas. and will hibernate there Ha;ties.
burg, Miss, write their merchants here after
careful study OF cotton situation IN that section
that bulk OF cotton has been marketed. that two
most prominent gins have closed. one proposing 10
return bagging ties and have them sold for their
account that the third gin viii close down 18th. A
party examining Arkansas writes Travelled over
Cotton Belt Railroad with inspector OF that sys-
tenl who said crop 10 per. cent short along
their road.
Galveston Nov. 4.-"The Galveston News" says
Mr.. NJ OF " NJ, returned yesterday from Trip
through Harris. Madison, Walker. Liberty and Mont
gomery counties. Everything picked No cotton be-
ing held on farms. No accumula;ions al gins. farms
or depots. Drove sixty miles Saturday. Willis 4
Bro. report on one OF their plantations made 81
bales: had expected 7oo only 30 unmarketsd.
Palmer. Ellis County, Tex, Oct S.On the sth
We Kinned fortyfou bales yesterday thirteen bales:
to-day seven bales. The coiton crop Is virtually
gathered and Einned. and least " per cent V
sold and shipped.