The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-12-04
News and Notes of National
Interest.
COTTON FIGURES
For 1901 -'02---"Sir Lang Cheng"
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Washington final report OF
the statistician of the department OF
agriculture shows the actual growth
of cotton in the United States in the
years 19O1-'O2 to have been 1855, ATS
commercial bales, of which liz, $50
bales were marketed before Sept. /.
1901, and 1866, 1856 bales between
Sept. 1, 1901, and Aug. 81, 1902, l54.
500 bales being carried forward to the
gear 19O2-'O3. The commercial crop
Of the year amounted to 10, 663,224
bales, thus exceeding the amount
actually grown by 696, TAO bales. This
excess was due in the main to the
very extensive mark citing of cotton
held over from previous years. The
difference between the statistician's
preliminary estimate of the amount
grown issued Dec. 3, 1901, and the
amount of cotton that has come into
commercial channels during the year
having been used to discredit the.
statistician's reports on the crop of
the present year, most exhaustive
investigation of the commercial crop
and it's composition has been made by
the depar tment, large force of spec
ial agents having personally visited
every important point in the South.
The results of their Investigations are
summarized in the following state
ment: The amount of cotton brought
forward on Sept. 1, 1901, was 528.9U0
bales, and 1913, 100 bales of the crop of
1902 'O3 were marked prior to the 1st
of September. There also entered
Into the commercial crop 172 ,226 bales
of linters and 67,572 bales made up of
samples and waste cotton, known to
the trade as the city crop. This lat
ter, as will readily be understood, Ss
sounted twice, being taken from bales
already counted in the commercial
movement. With regard to llnters,
the report says that the enormous
growth of the seed crushing industry
has resulted in an improved condition
to the CROP, the perfect delinting of
the seed, which results from the use
Of improved machinery, contributing
to the annual crop an item that can no
longer be ignored. An equally OK.
haustive investigation shows that the
total purchase of cotton by Southern
mills during the year ending Aug. 81,
1902. amounted to l, 1881, 532 bales.
There is a mystery in the coffee
trade which is attracting attention
among the fiscal officials. Is there a
coffee trust? The recent overproduc-
ton of the berry in all coffee produc-
ing countries has resulted in breaking
the price to the producer to the lowest
figures known. Brazil, the great cof-
fee producing country of the world,
markets the bulk of her product in
the United States. che depression in
prices has brought on financial crisis
In that and other South American
countries. Within week cargoes of
raw No. 7 Rio coffee, the standard
grade, have sold in New York at 5 lie
cents pound. and in New Orleans
about the same, the lowest price ever
quoted. For several weeks past the
quotations for cargoes have ranged
downward from about six cents. The
quotations at the other ports of entry
have correspondent to these figures.
Nevertheless these low Wholesale
,nrices have not resulted in any APP
.preciable reduction in the retail price
of coffee. In the last half dozen years
prices of cargoes at the ports of entry
have varied from time to time, with
general downward tendency for the
reason above cited. but curiously
enough always without any CORES
bonding fuctuation in retail rates.
The following pensions have been
granted: Mississippi-Maior White,
Cannonsburg, Sc; VIM, E. Mason,
Greenville, S.; Morris Brooks, Dun
leith, $l2; Thomas Coleman, Cald-
mere, IS. Widows, minors and de-
pendent relatives: Drucilla A. Lynch,
Peden, So. Louisiana-Robert Ross,
kNewellton. IS; Moses Grant, New Or
leans, $12; Albert Richard Clark,
Amite, so (Mexican warl.