New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-17
TUESDAY,
MARCH IL. 1896.
THE BUREAUS COTTON FIGURES.
INDICATING A CROP OF s7ss.o7 BALES-Fof''
EIGN DEMAND FOR THE STAPLE.

EIGN DEMAND FOR THE STAPLE
Although the Governments cotton crop report "as
awaited with considerable nervousness by the pron-
ers and spectators in cotton yesterday II oa""I
be said that its announcement produced s"oeN
to the market or changed anybodys oehel as :" "'e
size of the crop Boiled down. the report sa'u "as
1.-The total CROP including forty bales produceo !"
Utah Is 67SSJO7 bales" On the theory thae 'ne
Bureau is usually to 10 per cent too low IN It's es'
mate. and that its figures really meant crop OF
100000 bales there was some selling on us a"-
nouncement, but this did not last long, sopere' .'
Fiction in view OF the undoubted pains 'ahe" w
the Government this time. inclined the traoers "
think that, after all, 1t is confirmation OF cfop
not exceeding 100000 bales which Is low ehous" "
suit the bulls, long as the present oeii'a"u Ao'
actual cotton con tinues.
Exporters took away $1,000 bales yesterday OF
5000 more than were received at the seaports. so
far this week the exports have been 'oVN oae''
against receipts at the ports OF 2O0 oaies Inc '"o
largest cotton firms In this city were neaVy buyers
on the local Cotton Exchange yesterday before ana
after the Bureau report was announced one OF tnem
the largest exporting firm in the city Tnere were re-
ports that about 10000 bales OF cotton VIII be shippeo
out of this port on May deliveries Bear operators
who began selling on the Bureau report oougnii
back their cotton later. The quotations wnich mao
fallen points under Saturdays close az o, one
time closed at unchanged figures for Nay poi MI
down for r Auga sns and Of Msy the
the market. May closed at 754 August at 1855. and
The market had to contend against fresh politi-
cal ''scare"-ths time over the British movements
in EpyDt which, it was said. caused decline OF
3-6id to 464d in Liverpool and an easier TONE "
spots there Nevertheless, Liverpool spot sales were
1000 bales the normal gqany y I'm spo s s sales ' IN
Southern markets, but good safes az this POI
Orleans sold $500 bales. Memphis Loo, and the ocai
market 1919. The port stocks IN America nav"
fallen to 665 1872 bales . -. con
Interior receipts were mixed. Augusta got 6zy
against IS bales last year; Memphis. i9S against
sGz; ST. Louis, 92, against 81; Clncinns,u' Lis
against 1875 and Houston, l.2l4 against zdo' nouS
Ton expects to-day 200 to 300, against 5,A2
Fall River Mass, dispatch says tnat any prop.
osit,on to curta production that point would not
be supported by a quarter OF the mills there
Washington, March 1.-THE statements furnisneo
the Department of Agriculture by all railways ana
TRANSFORMATION companies show that from Septem-
Der l. 1896 to February /. 1896, the total actual
movement of cotton from the States OF production
10 ports. Northern and Western mills, CANADA,
Mexico and all other destinations, ainoun.co 40
Gals OF the mills show actual purchases durnS mo
same period amounting to bD3, DaIes' Inc re
partments township and pre- met agents snow tnat
on February |, 1885, there renamed on pian'dtLons
90 fe3 bales In warehouses; 3jS al bales; at pfc
rs O6. J99 bales: congresses ll,52. paies am
AT depots and yards 1882 bales. Total So.,.4S
crop including forty bales produced in Ctah' 10
G7sS D7 commercial bales. The mill purcndses' W
states are as follows: Alabama, 4i,ssl bales: Ar.
kansas 1870: Georgia. 1895: kehtucky, ,"'iii9.
North Carolina 1871 AS: South Carolina, 22ooS;
tennessee &c. 464: Texas, 55l; Virginia, 1851 totai'
COS $50 bales - 1905, An nrar,e
lions and al Interior points September !. 1873 -,
The above figures are subject to revision in the
Departments tina report