New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-26
DROP IN GINNED COTTON.
Tess THIN List YEAR.
Total to October Is, $780, res Bales
-Leak Guarded against.

ueshinrton Oct. GA total Of 4e4072S bales
=. cotton ginned IN the United States up to
october IS IS thu statement announced in a
hulletin issued by the Census Bureau to-day.
IN this calculation round bales counted as
haIf bales. and the figures given in the bulletin
are based on reports made by the bureaus spe-
c;a1 agents in the field.
No estimate is made of the total crop for the
year. but figures are given out concerning crops
NJ former years. These figures show that up to
This date in 1904 the product of the gins had
reached a total Of e.417, s94 bales out OF a total
of Is6es.27s bales for the year. In 1908 the
total production was 10.045,6i5 bales, and the
ginning output up TO October 25 was 3.70s.24S;
in 1902 the total output was 10,S27,16s. and the
o-tput TO October % was 56s3006. To-dsy's
report covered 26, 1854 gnneries, and the state
rnents upon which 1t prepared were sup
plied by telegraph by 702 special agents in the
field most Of them representing one county
each.
The fact that the bulletin was not issued
until z o'clock. two hours after the usual time,
caused some complaint from brokers in differ
ent cities and some of these which reached the
bureau before the document given to the
public were of a sensational character. These
are summarized in the following from Secretary
Hester of the New-Orleans Cotton Exchange:
New-OrIeans, La, October Is, 1905.
Hon S. n. D. North. Director of the Census,
Washington:
Much disappointment and dissatisfaction here
ct delay in issuing ginners' report to p. m.
Rache & Co, of New York, wire Hayward, Wick
& Clark, Of New-Orleans, as follows: David
Miller has just made the statement TO the effect
that the ginners' report has been delayed from
y o'clock to 2 o'clock to allow more time
to certain parties TO sell cotton on, and says he
will stand by the above" One rumor here is
that the report will show. counting round as
half bales, 61o0.1oo. All kinds of rumors are
being spread. and parties selling the market
down, under suspicion Of something wrong in
your bureau. I send this because I think it
nroper you should know it. The David Miller
Is a prominent member of the New-York Cotton
Exchange. H g. HESTER
To this Director North replied:
Washington. October %, 1905.
Henry G. Hester. Secretary New-Orleans Cotton
Exchange Orleans, La:
Telegram received. Nobody in this Office
knows, even approximately, at the moment how
many bales ginned the report will show. The
men engaged in compiling 1t are locked up and
the door guarded on the outside. More than
half OF the Geographic reports from county
agents were received this morning, and their
compilation prior TO o'clock was & physical i'm
possibility NORTH
This dispatch was forwarded before the bull
ietin was given out, and after It was issued it
was stated that some Of the reports from the
agents were not received until 1850 o'clock.
The ginnery product for the present year to
date, By States, follows:
Alabama, sA1I33 bales; Arkansas. 1851:
Florida, S8O07; Georgia. 1.05S,167: Indian Terri
tory. 1922; Kentucky III; Louisiana, 14,7S0:
Mississippi 855472 Missouri 55aS: North
Carolina. 63e,974; Tennessee, 62,625; Texas
1.417.45e and Virginia, 74,O51,