Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-08
HEAVIER THE PAST WEEK
LOCAL COTTON MOVEMENT THAN
FOR ANY WEEK PRIOR.
Problem Confronting The Farmers Is
Where They Are TO Secure Supplies.

The local movement in cotton last
week Vas SUITE better tfran tirat -1ff tire
previous weeks, owing t. the increased
running hours of the gins. The condl-
ton of the crop is reported to be
good but the amount Of the yield is
less than even .those who predicted a
short crop expected. Day by day the
amount of cotton brought to the city
grows less as compared with that
which should come in ii the yield was
up to the average. and the buyers are
having lively scramble t. buy enough
to fill their orders. Another feature
chat causes them uneaSineSS is the
who have brought good staple to the
city have tried to get as high as 20
cents per pound for it, and prices asked
for all grades are high. At the close OF
the market Saturday evening, hill cot
ton was worth 10 Is cents per pound,
river cotton 10 1-2 and 10 81 cents,
bender cotton II cents, and staples
from Is to 16 cents The following is
the cotton letter and the spinnerS' re-
port, which was furnished by the G.. c.
Taylor company:
Ginners' Report.
/ Pine Bluff, Nov. THE second ef
a series Of reports on cotton ginned
of this years growth was published
this morning, little after the open
ing. The quantity gnnad TO October
is figured o,S39,627 bales. Counting
round bales as half bales 3,7o6,24S.
These figures compare with 5,926,67c
bales round and fiat. ginned tc. same
date last year, about a.00O 900 less.
This was a smaller amount than look
ed for, and While the season is about
three to four weeks later. the discrep
ancy was more than Could be account
ed for by lateness of season. The
above statistics We're collected through
a canvass of the cotton states by 63l
local agents, which found that 27,723
ginneries had been operated this sea-
son prior to October IS. To the same
date last year 29,314 ginneries had
been operated. A most important and
influential feature of the report is To-
| IN hot ;ol,t
according to Mr. Hester, there had
been marketed 3.150,000 bales, leaving
on plantations Of amount ginned to Oc-
tober Is, only 6S7,639 bales, p,uS
the amount ginned in the mean
time. During the same time
last wear there was marketed of last
seasons crop 1922, sos bales, and as the
amount ginned to October was $685.
go bales, there remained IN planta-
tiors of 2,303 .S07 bales, ,625, ,16S ables
more. plus same amount ginned from
said date to November 5, all of which
refutes reports as to farmers holding
back, and proves more than does any
thing else, that the crop IS smaller
than most people believe, accepting
conditions as they find them. European
representatives are buying cotton in
the interior just as ia t IS it leaves the
gin, exports for g. days of the season
| footing up 1,600,915 bales, against L.
cor 1oc ND il,
diton to this, there was on shlpboard
last night, awaiting clearance 301,323
bales. compared with 21O,144 one year
ago. This is remarkable considering
movement since September ! to be
543, 500 less than last year. American
ports and interior stocks are 223, 900
smaller than this time twelve months
ago $4,000 against 100000. Ameri-
can mills have not taken within 100000
of what they took to even date last
year, 734 600 agai..ot $4,000; for
eign 100000 less than last year,
$4,000 against 1,133,000, and if
they had instead O. visible of Amer
can showing a deficit cf 2S6.000 when
compared with year ago. it would
show smaller stock Of the world by
7333 900 less than last year. How and
where spinners of the world are to Sc
cure supplies out o. crop that PROM
less SO small as does this seasons to
mako good THIS 1873 900 bales il crder
to equal last years takings, which were
reduced to a minimum, Is the problem
that confronts the spinner, Visible
supply last night 2,097, 122 American
against 2.583, AT last year