The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-13
COTTON is CLIMBING UPWARD.

we're marked mp lac at New Orleans, Hous
ton and Galveston.
The seward movement was degree In
excess OF last years Receipts at all
potts were 22.j1l, compared with 90, 4SJ
for the corresponding day Of last year.
Since Friday they have been 110.50S bales,
cnmreie ed with s169l for the same time
of last week ana s6.646 for the correspond
ing time of last year. Thus far In the
scnson they have been 6.Oo1, 467 bales,
cGmI sred with 5,jOl,T 49, for the CORE
sprh6irg time OF last season. Exports
slnce Friday have been 100. 29S bales. com.
pared with 90, 1OT for the same time Of
last week and $500 for the corresponding
timc OF last yenr. Stock at United atcs
Tcrts for the day was sl33jO bales. com.
pared with S74 100 for the same day 81
last week and o1S,6i0 for the correspond
ing day OF last year
son 4g74 bnlcs later subtracted from Pen.
sacola's receipts.
Following hms been the semi weekly
movement at thirteen interior towns, with
80 ''' ' This week. Last week Last year.
Receipts o.. 437S3 81, la 4O,2i7
shipments 32699$ ,447'ss4i2 Si,S4s
Mr. Thco Price has issued pamphlet
giving In detail the towns from which he
has received the information as TO stocks
and the amount Of cotton In planters hands
that enabled him 10 arrive at his recently
published crop estimate. It is an OK
haustive report showing inquiries sent to
every town Of over 300 inhabitants In the
cotton producing section OF the South with
the names Of each arranged according ia
states. The report shows 1907 replies
from 1000 towns en- 51G counties and on
which Mir. Price bases his calculation.
Houston's estimated receipts for today
are 2SO0 10 2Gno against 1881 last year
New orleans expects $500 10 $500 against
o431 last year.
The American Einuer begins an early AZ
iiation of tho acreage question and In this
connection says;
At this season tho prospective cotton acre.
age for the year is on interesting one with
the trade as with the grower and the con
ditiong governing tho situation upon the
farm and plantation engage = wide ntten-
ton Those conditions arc not favorable
to ap excessive acreage, on tine contrary,
they point distinctly 20 very consider
able curtailment
Everything required tor the making NJ a
cotton crop is higher and labor is scarce
Fertilizers are much higher than usual.
corn and provisions have advanced from 80
20 20 ncr cent and merchants are reluctant
10 make advances Of these staples until the
crop &C. mp md It's prospect determined
This condition shuts out the impccunlous
cropper who must perforce 80 10 work
for wages.
The credit price for corn must he about
Sl.2b per hushcl MT the Interior store be
cause n Is worth = cents per pound and
cornmeal I'm proportion These are the eS-
seutials in making cotton crop; the aver
ago negro cropper has no moucy with which
ia supply them, and usually the merchant
M the planter begins making advances as
soon ~ work begins But tho high prices
now prevailing for those supplies will cause
a suspension of this rule. because the risk
is 70" gteat to he uudert Ken. md thous-
ands OF the rennllesS contingent must hr,l
some rhe. means than cottou-raislug 10
mako a living
II Is true that many win fnd employment
at wages upon the plantations nut thu.
great majority will seek other fields NJ
M'rk and largo areas Of cotton land will
no idle or given 10 crops that 30 not re-
qure SO much cultivation
he high price of fertilizers is another
factor In the situation that viii operate to
diminish both acreage and 1roductl Hon.
where tho merchGnt determines what shall
be purchased. The supplies along this llna
ere sure 10 he limited and tho urcns r,lnDt.
ed In cotton correspondlngly diminished
Iaken altogether, these conditions mean.
Tor the present year. restricted cotton
acreage. There rs absolutely nothing i'm the
situation TO encourage expansion, there Is
everything 10 discourage ID. and these re-
Sirnnlug conditions are both patent ana dc.
terminIng in their character. II the 'crop.
per cannot get advances he cannot nuke A
crop and that settles It,