The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-17
!. Receip's "a dato this season
:. Receipts to Same date last season
3. Total receipts last season.

san Felipe. No cotton heing held here
Skdmore. -Iberc IS no crop worth gath
crng.
Miueola: No cotton being held
LcWisvllc. Very little hclpg held aud
only In small lots Nv farmers
Caddo Mills.--l.css than 100 bales held
by formers IN this nnrt 81 the county.
buyers have about 800.
Bocrnc. Total receipts here viii not cx-
coed 900 bales. about TO bales held by
farmers and merchants.
Mason. Cotton Il being marketed as fast
as tcauls can takc TO market.
Sweet Home VERY little cotton being
held and that nv farmers
Glen Rose Seems impossible 10 get at
exact receipts onlt from giu reports, which
show un TO date not more than one third
OF what WAS glnncd last year. Crop Will
be larger than Inst wear from present ind
cations. provided frost viii stay on for
some weeks vet.
Mount Vernon. Thus far the cotton re-
celpts at this place have been about one
third more as Compated with the same
time last year. The total reccntS FOR last
year were about 1000 bales There ia
some cotton being held by farmers, but
none hv BUYERS.
Aauila "A very small amount is being
held, priucipaily by farmers. The crop
this year will be some better than last
year
kingshury. Tho farmers have $50 bales
here. holding for better prices Cotton Is
practically all gathered.
leuaha.--Ncry little cotton being held by
farmers, more by buyers. The better
class of farmers are selling as fast as they
can get II 70 market
Leesvlne. The cotton is being sold as
fast as gathered. Those who held cotton
last yeur lost by IT., and no one, merchant
or farmer Is holding aug 10, amount 70
this season. Tho crop Is pructicaliF gain
cred, Tho amount yct 20 come Wall not
cGn8l two bales TO the farm.
frelsburg Tho cotton receipts have been
about ono.tbird Ms compared with that OF
III fhN
T.. hoilmann. who has about ~ Dalcs
and Is holding for better prlces.
Brady. The farmers are marketing It A.
fast as Il IS ginucd. and merchants mr.,
shipping The season is closing up, aud
many pickers are leaving the county.
Goldthwaite.A the yard there has been
weighed up 10 date 3i7B bales, against 2S'
bales this time last year very little peina
nelds.
Abbott. No cotton being held by anyone
There are lots ~ green bols which " they
open. Will swcIl receipts 70 three-fourtns Of
what they were last year.
Blossom.-yery little, II any, cotton a
being held here by farmers or others
Weather conditions favorable 10 maturing
considerable cotton yet
Hearne.--'lhe Post man took advantage
OF an opportunity 10 view the BRACES bot
tom from Hearne to Stone city and car
state from actunl observation that the large
majority OF the cotton fields along the
Hearne ana Brazos Valley railroad be
tween these points presents the appearance
Of having been picked over 80 Thoroughly
that a lock Of the staple can he seen now
and then. Win the prevailing fair wealth
er for the mex. week, there will he little
cotton afterwards 20 be picked. Around
the gins on some OF the plantations can b.
seen some cotton which is being held foi
better prices.
MeDadc.-Na cotton being held by buyers
and very little by formers. Picking IS prac
ticnlly over boil weevils having DESTROYER