The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-31
ASSOCIATION MAY BE HERE IN JANUARY Hotel and Railroad Facilities a
 Strong InduCement GROWERS GAN SET PRICES Jordan corrects Reports Alleged to Have Been Made By Hln-Estl-
 mates the Crop at H.
 5oo,ooo Bales.

It is highly probable that the next meet ing of the Southern Cotton association set
 for January will be held in Birmingham
 This, according to D. B. Armstrong auditor of the association, will mean' un-
 less all signs fail, that about $500 mem
 bers will be present
 The only other point being considered
 as meeting place Is New Orleans. As
 the association held its two former meet
 ings there and besides Birmingham be- ing several hundred miles nearer the
 center of the cotton belt, MT. Armstrong
 thinks it is the logical place for the meet ing, and that the attendance here would
 be considerably increased on that account. Having collected all necessary data as to
 Birminghams railroad facilities and hotel
 accommodations MT. Armstrong is of the
 opinion that the meeting in January will
 be held here.
 Such will be his recommendations to the association. MT. Armstrong is an
 Alabamian and aside from being im- pressed with the obvious advantages of-
 fered by Birmingham naturally, he would
 like to see this meeting held in his native
 state, largely attended as 1t will be by
 representative planters and bankers of the south
 Mir. Armstrong besides being an officer in the association is also vice president of
 the Cotton States Journal, which is edited
 by Harvie Jordan, the president of the
 Southern Cotton association. Speaking of
 recent interview of the bearish Import
 alleged to have been given out by MT.
 Jordan in Washington last week, MT.
 Armstrong said: This interview was in-
 accurately reported MT. Jordan has
 never felt that this cotton crop would be
 more than enough, if enough, to supply
 the demands of the mills for the next
 twelve months. and he has repeatedly stated that if the farmers would market
 their crop slowly they would strike the
 highest average in prices Exactly what
 he did say on the matter and what his
 views are as to the crop actually are best
 set forth in q recent statement from
 which," which is as follows.
 Last week there appeared in the gen. eral press of the country and cotton mar
 ket letters of the trade, the publication of certain statements given out by me from Washington, D. C., in which some
 glaring inaccuracies occurred, half
 dozen different versions of the interview
 were published. In some of these l was quoted as saying That l had appealed to the census bureau at Washington to secure the postponement of the ginners' report in order to prevent the publication of a bullish report and that the dam age from the recent tropical storm had been overestimated and the damage would not be near so great as anticipated. Statements Get Mixed.
 What I did say in effect was, That inc bureau of cotton statistics would not issue the usual forecast of the crop on December 4, but would postpone 1t until December 10, waiting until after the issu- ance of the ginners' report on December S. and that no further condition reports would be made this season by that de- partment" This information was given me in Washington voluntarily and with out any thought on my part that such would be the action of the department This statement got mixed up, evidently in transmission, and "ginners' report' was substituted for bureau report stated further in substance that south western exporters were reported as send ing out information all over Europe to the effect that no good grades of cotton would be obtanable this season in any of the states except Texas and Oklahoma, and that this was done to induce the spinners to pay a heavy premium to the exporters of Texas cotton l denied the statement that the old states would be unable to furnish any good grades this season and that the growers east of Texas would he forced to sell their cot ton at discount.
 I was also quoted as predicting 'hig slump in the price of cotton What 1 said was, that if the farmers rushed their