The news & observer., 1905-10-26
DELAY IN REPORT
AROUSED ANGER
The Bulletin on Cotton
Two Hours Late.
AGENTS WERE SLOW
The Report Shows 4,940,728 Bales
Ginned Up to October Eighteen.
This Was Unexpected in View
of Rumors Preceding it.
Cotton Fairly Bounded
(By the Associated Press }


Washington, Oct. 25.-The Census
Bureau issued a bulletin today plac-
ing the cotton ginned in the United
States up to October l at 4,940,728
bales, round bales being counted as
half bales. The statement is based on
reports made by the bureaus special
agents in the field.
No estimate is made of the total
cron for the year, but figures are given
out concerning crops of former years.
These figures show that up to this
date in 1904 the product of the gins
had reached a total of 6,417,S94 bales
out of total of 13,693,279 bales for
the year. In 1903 the total production
was 10,045,615 bales, and the ginning
output up to October 25, 1903. was
3,706,24S: in 1902 the total was 10,-
S27, ,16S and the output to October 25
was 5.6S3,006. Today's report covered
26,364 ginneries, and the statements
upon which it was prepared were sup
piled by telegraph by 1902 special
agents in the field, most of them repre-
senting one county each.
The fact that the bulletin was not
issued until 2 o'clock. two hours after
the usual time, caused some complaint
from brokers in different cities, and
some of these which reached the
bureau before the document was given
TO the public were of a sensational
character. They are summarized in
of the Maws0 0rleanssGa GaIton sIsxchaa ga:
New Orleans, La,
"Oct 25. 1905.
Hon. S. N. d. North, Director of the
Census, Washington d. c.:
Much disappointment and dissat-
isfaction here at delay in issuing gin
ners' report to 2 p. m. Bache & Com
pay, of New York, wire Hayward,
Wick & Clark, of New Orleans, as fol-
statement to the effect that the gin
ners' report has been delayed from II
o'clock to o'clock SO as TO allow
more time to certain parties to sell
cotton on. and Gays he Will stand by
the above
"One rumor here is that the report
will show counting round as half bales,
100000. All kinds of rumors are
being spread and parties are selling
the market down, under suspicious OF
something wrong in your bureau. l
send this because / think it proper
you should know it. The David Mil
Ter referred to was the receiver of
Sully & Company, and is a prominent
member of the New York Cotton Ex-
change.
III. c.. HESTER"
To this Director North replied:
Washington, ID. G.
Henry G.. Hester, Secretary New Or
leans Cotton Exchange, New Or
leans, 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 it are locked un and the
door guarded Oh the outside. More
than half of the telegraphc reports
from country agents were received
this morning and their compilation
prior to o'clock was a physical i'm :
possibility.
NORTH"
This telegram was forwarded be-
fore the bulletin w0s given out, and
after il was issued it was stated that
some Of the reports from the agents
were not received until 10 minutes
before o'clock.
The ginning product for the present
year to date by states is stated as fol-
lows:
SLUG -FOUR
Alabama. 641,133 bales; Arkansas
117,511; Florida. 3S,0O7; Georgia, l.
O5S,167; Indian Territory, 1922;
Kentucky, III: Louisiana, 141,7S0:
Mississippi, 311,472; Missouri, S,575;
North Carolina. 325,298: Oklahoma
$3.50; South Carolina, 639,974; Ten
nessee. 62,625; Texas, 1,417456; Vir-
ginia 4,051.