The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-03
STATEMENT OF THE
MONTHLY MOVEMENT
Hester's Figures Show Increase
Over Last Year
847,364 BALES IN FEBRUARY
Amount of Cotton Brought Into Sight
for the Past Six Months at all
Ports Is e,5es,sso
Bales.
S47,364 BALES IN FEBRUARY

New Orleans, March 2.-Secretary Hes
ter's New Orleans cotton exchange state
ment issued today covers the monthly
movement to the close of February. Com
pared with last year it shows an increase
for the month In round figures of lO4'OOO,
compared with year before last an In
crease of 177,0Oo and with 1900 an increase
of 200.
The total for February was s47,S64
against 74S,S $40 last year. 67O,74s year be-
fore last and S47.1s0 same time in 1900.
The amount brought into sight for the
six months from September to February
inclusive. is 114O00 over last year, $4,000
over year before last and 1,169,00O over
1900.
The movement from the first Of septem-
her to the close of February, inclusive,
shows receipts at all United States ports
1893, $780, against 6,46S,516 last year. $780,
0eS year before last and 6,5o6,sso same
time in 1900; overland across the Missis-
sippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers to north
ern mills and Canada, S4I,S57, against
S77. AT last year. s92, 92S year before last
and l. o92, POP same time in 1900; southern
mill takings, exclusive of quantity con-
sumed at southern outports, l,l9O'oVo
against 1062, 2o0 last year, S72,6l9 year be-
fore last and SSS, log same time In l9oo ana
interior stocks in excess of those held at
the commencement of the season, zooiob
against 3G6. 3H last year, 597,6O9 year be-
fore last and 42,096 same time In 1870
Total Crop In Sight, 8,833,353.
These make the total amount of the
cotton crop brought into sight for the
six months ending with the close or Feb
ruary 8. SSS, 1853 against S'774,56o last year.
S,22S 219 year before last and I,Il9,29i same
time in 1900. Northern spinners took dur
ing February 254, $50 bales against 23S' 4Ss
last year and 20O,077 year before last, in
creasing their total for the six months
to 1,619,612 against 1,63S,652 last year and
1873 as the year before last. This makes
their average weekly talkings for the sea-
son g. 636 against 63.373 last year and
5S, 76S year before last.
Foreign exports for the six months of
the season have been 5,135973 bales, show
ing an increase over last season of 1902
and an increase over the same period
year before last of 722,06s. The gain in
foreign exports during February COM
pared with February last year has been
1G6 g73 and compared with a gain during
the same period year before last OF
279 455.
Stocks at the Seaboard.
Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty
nine leading southern interior markets at
the close of February were 1,1S5, 4O3
against 1921 $50 the same date last year
and 1,523,134 the year before.
Including port and interior town stocks
left over from the previous season and
the number of bales of the current crop
brought into sight during the six months
the supply has been 9,103427 against
9,134 252 last year and S,350,753 the year
before
Up to the close of February last year
so 15-100 per cent of the cotton crop had
been marketed and for the same six
months in 1902 the percentage of the crop
brought into sight was 70 24.100 and for
the same time in 1900 the percentage mar
keted was 81 S0-100.