The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-10

Britain 49, 49,. ........ -. 1873. 900
Stock of American afloat for Great
Britain same time last year $50. 4oo,eOo
View York Cotton MarKet.
New York, December 9.-Speculation in
! cotton was today the heaviest for some
| n,oaths past Fluctuations were frequent
and violent, The basis of the improvement
was the unfavorabe weather conditions IN
tho cotton belt combined withzthe generahy
favorable purport of the English caeaes.
The cold wave was expected to continue
fer several days and snow was reported IN
extensive districts. Trading still favored
| 5aiillary March May and August A few
conservative parties sold freely on the rise.
II aiding was more generally ir the biccNs
than it has been and good parties were
| buying, being encouraged to do so by strong
SPOT cotton advices from southern mar
| kets and Indications that exporters and
| American SD rners were in keener comretl-
| ton for supplies. Just before the eloa"
| there was A slap break Under very active
| selling led b. houses with English ana
| New Orleans connections Our market
was finally steady at a net advance of 1
| TO points A conspicuous feature of the
! early speculation was early covering III
| the January delivery by number of lead
! ing bears who had held out all through
| the recent advance in the nope OF a reac-
ton. This demand caused relatNe seiehs'H
! in that option.
/ Cotton, firm; midding, S-16; net re-
CENTS sos bales; gross, AIS; sales SOW
stock, 10,6h3; exports to Great Britaih' o''oo'
continent, 1927. ., err
| ,,orfs m Great Britain, 27,774s to France,
90; to the continent, 1894; stock l,Solo'4
consolidated Net receipts 392,02 ex-
| norris TO Great Britain, 1912; to France
As III: continent 126,O4S. ,.-
/ Total since September l: Net rece n poa
IL
I TO France, 343,421; continent, l,2oVooo.
! New Orleans Cotton Market
| New orleans. December Cotton steady;
sales 1900 bales; ordinary, 81 sooo orolh-
| arv. 5-16: low middling, 4 n-l6; middllng,
! 5 good middling, 81 mlddiing lair' VA
| receipts, Is 92S; stock, 44,6Ol
| Consolidated: Receipts, net, S92,O2o; ex-
norris To Great Britain, 17O129; to FRANCE
! 45.717; continent, 126,049; stock, l'Soz,oa4'
| Cotton futures steady; December, o.oo DID,
January, 511d512; February, o.l'1'.i o.
March, 521@522; April oSe@U1 %1oas aa All
@5.SS; June 5S7@5.SS; July o4l@o,4z, Au-
! gust, 5.41a5. AZ; September, 5.s3 bid; OCTOBER
5.35 bid.
| l,aiiv Statement
| Ga1veston-Steady; middling, 5A; saies'
600 bales; receipts, 1885, stock, 81, aoS.
Mobile-Firm; mddling 3; sales' oVo paies'
| receipts, 1884; stock, 1000
se1annab-Steady; middling, 1-16; sales,
eo7 bales; receipts 1857 stock, l64'ooS'
charleston-Steady; middling, .; receipts'
| 2,621; stock, 1915 ooa;o+s
I Wilmington-Firm mioolins' o7s' iSSS-P'N'
| 1927; stock, 1913 mo
| 'Norfolk-Firm; middling, 5-l6; sales' 'oS
| bales; receipts, Ass; stock, Sc. 20.
RaItimore-Nominal; middllng, 59s; re-
| celpts 1862 bales stock, 1000. ..
Roston-Steady; middling, 5A' receip's'
l.
Philadelphia-Firm; middilng, l-io' re-
I ceipts. $50 bales; stock 5Sol
| Memnbis--Steady; middling, z5zl6; safes
| 5000 bales; receipts, Alb; receipts, ioo,ooz.
Aueusta-Steady; middling. 11-16; re-
| ceipts, 1,496 bales; stock 19O,oof'
| Visible supply
| New Orleans. December 9--Secretary Hes
| ter,s statement of the worlds visible supply
| of cotton made up from speclai caples an
| telegraphic advices compares the lsuies %
| this week with last week, Iast year anu ~ ~
1904 the la tier the 9901, 900 crop year 1t
shows an increase for the week just closed
| of 10s 37S bales against an increase oil Ioo,-
| S04 bales last year and an increase VI io''Ai'
| bales in 1894. 200 ,,,..
| A Rag 0e0 bales last week, 3,S56209 bales last
| year and 4,399032 bales in 1881. VI TINS the
| total of American cotton Is 4,4S6,4SS bales
! against 1852, 060 bales last week. Sooo so.
| bales last year and 40iOooz pdies III iooi'
and of all other kinds including Egypt,
| Brazil> India, etc. $4,000 bales against ga
| 900 bales last week, 2lS,OO0 bales last year
! and 1928 POO bales in 1894
The total worlds visible supply of cot
ton shows an increase compared with ias.
week of 1O9 .37S bales an increase compared
with last wear of S49 ,229 bales, and an in
crease compared with 1894 of 306, i06 bales
Hester's Weekly Statement
| New Orleans December 9.-Secretary
| Hester's weekly New Orleans cotton ex-
| change statement issued before the close
| OF business today shows an increase III the
| movement into sight compared with the
seven days ending this date last year III
round figures $1,000, an increase over the
same days year before last Of lso,JVo and al
increase over the same time in 1894 of
60O00.
For the ninety days Of December, the
totals show an increase over last year OF
CT GOO an increase over the same period year
before last of 10000 and an increase over
1891 of 1000.
For the 100 days Of the season that have
ELAPSED the aggregate is ahead of the l0O
DAYS of last year, 30, 900, ahead OF the same
days year before last of 100000 and ahead
of 1894 by G0O,O0O.
The amount brought into sight during
the past week is sol 1853 bales against AIS ,924
for the seven days ending this date last
year, BIG, 5S7 year before last and Al, ALP the
same time in 1854 and FOR the nine days Of
December 1t has been G47,954 against 5S7,SS7;
last year 44l III year before last and 646,512
iu7a In