The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-23
COTTON.


A midsummer duilness pervaded the
local spot market during the past week
The sales were very light and merely nom
inal. The tone of the market continued
quiet and easy. The decline in futures
Thursday, in which August contracts were
most prominent, caused a decline of 1sc on
all grades of spots. To-day the market
remained unchanged, with no sales re-
ported.
The following We're the official spot quo
tatlons, at the close Of the market at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good middling ........................5 15-lG
NluuhhS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 59s
Low middling ..........................5 SIG
Good ordinary ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1-16
Market quiet and easy; sales, spot,
none; for week rs.
Receipts-The receipts of cotton at this
port from all sources for the past week
we're 29l bales upland and II bags sea
island, against 50 bales upland and . bags
sea island for the same week last year.
The particulars of the receipts were as
follows Per Central Railway, SO bales :
Per Savannah, Florida and Western Rail-
way, 20 bales; per Charleston and Savan-
nah Railway / BALE per South Bound
Railroad, . bales; per Florida Central and
Peninsular, p bales; per Georgia and Ala
bama Railroad, 179 bales
Exports-The exports for the past week
were 754 bales upland and 500 bags sea Is
land, moving as follows: To New York, CTS
bales upland and 800 bags sea island; to
Baltimore. 2 bales upland; 10 the interior,
1874 bales upland
Stocks-The stock on hand and on ship
boad to-day were 2,571 bales upland and
1902 bags sea island against 2 176 bales up
land and 7,117 bags sea island al the cCr-
responding time last year.
Sea Island Cotton-The market during
the past week was firm and unchanged
with sales of 1877 bales The receipts were
IA bales. The sales We're made on a basis
of the following quotations.:
Extra choice F'loridas .........!....4 Q14ts
Choice Floridas ......................l Gl312
Extra fine Floridas ..... T......... .l21a0l2A
Fancy Georgias l212Ql2A
Extra choice Georgias ..............l2 Gtl2A
Choice Georgia .l0AUlA
Extra fine Georgias .................O QlOn
Fine Georglas ............-.,.......... Sts4 we
Medium fine Georgias ............ 81
Common Georgias1.
The receipts for the past week were il
bags, against 8 bags for the same week
last year
Exports for week were 500 bales, moving
as follows: To Manchester, 200 bales; 10
Liverpool 239 bales; to Havre, IS bales; TO
Northern ports for domestic consumption,
275 bales
Exports for same week last year, "a
bags.
The total receipts from Sept to date
amount to 1927 bags, against S3,8S3 bags
for the corresponding time last year
The total exports from Sept. / to date
have been 1928 bags. of which 49, were
to Great Britain 4,230 to France; 2603 TO
the continent; 2S,51 bags 10 Northern ports
for domestic consumption, and 2C73 to
Brunswick
The total exports from the same period
last year were 1902.
Stock on hand and on shipboard to-day
were 1902, against I'LL this day last year
Charleston, S. c., July 22-Sea island
cotton market: Receipts for the week,
none; exports, 226; sales, bags; stocks,
173O bags
Quotauons-Medium fine off co,or 100;
fine off color, 10$4c
The total receipts since Sept. l, 1897, have
been 1889 bags, against 9,474 bags for the
same time last year. The exports since
Sept. l, 1897, have been 1851 bags, against
9,464 bags for the same time last year.
Savannah Receipts, Exports and Stocks
Received this day ................... IA
Received same day last year ..... ]
Received same day year before last 81
Received past week ................ 302
Received same day last year ...... 81
Received same week in 1895 .. 25y
Receipts since Sept J. 1897 .......1, 1ss. 81
Receipts same time las. Year 49,. Sfi, 6S8
Receipts same time year before last 754, 2S5
Receipts same time Ia 1895 ........ 943, 2l6
Exports this day, coastwise. .. 3i2
Exports past week, coastwise ...... 1868
Exports Since Sept. !. 1857
TO Great Britain .................... 73,740
10 france ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 32.547
To the continent .................,..... 627,62l
Iotai foreign ..'.'''''-''''.''....... 733,9O8