The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-18
COTTON CROP LARGE
Expert Of New Orleans Makes
Value Over SIX Hundred
and Fory-on Millions.
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ing 30 =ay concerning ,h= co;,oa crop
and liz value:
The cotton croo o. IN r.:-st! S-a:=s
for The year =at.ay kin III. c!css= j.:
August amounts 10 li245.:. bzI=s.
Snoring & decrease Of 2.:I..,.. IN
der ina. u i.1z-5, - INCREASE ot l.
s34,sI4 over that G. 1872. and an
increase y. sI:.:zs ovs. ina. OF i.0a-3.
% the tscrssas Under last gear
% I:-llF, pr cen; vas in Texas and
Indian Territory. g.; $3.50 ps. cent in
other gulf States. and ~ ib-l0n u.
cent in the Atlantic Sta:.=.
Compared x!th Iaa. year. in .nnntI
figures, Texas. including Indian
Territory, has fallen OF $50 800 bales;
the group known as other guif states.
consisting OF Louisiana, Arkansas. Mis-
siszippi. Tennessee, Missouri, Okla
bona, Utah and Kansas, has decreased
1910 bales, and IN. group Of
Atlantic STATES alabama, Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, ksntuck: and Virginia has lost
231 900.
While III. commercial crop as a
whole has proven To be the largest
ever marketed, except that OF last
year. the advantage has been entirely
with the Atlantic States. which pro-
duced what would be considered a
bumper crop were not the phenomenal
~ lzr =
the gull states conditions amounted
practically TO disaster, Louisiana pro-
ducing less than half crop and Mis-
EiEsippi and Arkansas about two
thirds.
The average gross weigh: Of the
bales compared with lase year has de-
creased 4G7-190 pounds, but is still the
largest recorded. except that OF las,
year, and the average Of the season OF
1883 when the crop was 1924
$40 bales) the third largest croI
marketed.
In. grade, the crop has been a good
one, the average of the reports from
the leading markets showing as a
whole slight variation compared with
last season.
The years average OF price for the
cotton belt has been 11.07 cents per
pound. the highest for middling hav-
ing been II is cents on December .
1905, and the lowest 1915 on August
%, 1905. In 1906 the highest price
Of middling was II 3-16 and the low
est 6 12
The average commercial value per
bale of the crop is $685.. agains,
1861 last year. s61.sS the year be-
fore and $44.52 in 1929.
The money value OF the past crop
is the largest ever received for any
commercial crop recorded, and not
%ithstanding that it was 2,213,s97 bales
less than that Of last year. it brought
sl2,525.175 more. The lowest aver
age price per bale in any month dur
ing the past season was s5253 in
October, 1905, and 5000 in August
1906, while during the month of
December, 1905. the average per bale
ran as high as $500. Last year
1304-5) the January average was
1864 per bale. and there were five
months. from December to April, dur
ing which cotton sold at less than $40.
The feature of the past season has
been steady and strong demand for
the use OF manufacturers. and while
the outturn of the crop in amount
was surprise to the trade, 1t proved
TO be considerably short of require
ments
The total value of the crop compared
with the previous five years is as
follows: