The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
LOCAL COTTON RECEIPTS HEAVY Factors Are Busy Handing
 Staple. FEW TRADES ARE MADE Steady Week-End Future Market m
 All Months. Durinx Past Week the south Received Hishest Price Psid for spots
 at This Season of the
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 The local spot cotton market closed the week yesterday In lively fash Ion There were not so many trades but the receipts were the heaviest So wagon receipts amounted to about l. S57 bales. Of this amount about 500 bales came to the Square by wagon. 3-S to 13 1-2 cents From early morn ing until late in the afternoon the Square was crowded with the wagon Immediate vicinity.
 The sales recorded in the spot mar ket amounted to about 300 bales. Trades were made around the 13 7-16 cent mark. Considerable cotton was offered by the warehouses but there was not much looking around by the steady and firm at quotations and mfddling cotton was quoted at iS 5-ls The cotton market closed the week strong. The first prices of the mar xet were few points down on a poor Liverpool j. Later the market rallied and advanced for several points. All the cotton months closed nine to elev- en points over Fridays closing fig The initial prices of December fu- lures were three points off at Is.5S. month closed at it's highest. 13.7o. reg close ics the day before. January futures opened two points down at 1863 and then went as low as 1s.57. It closed high at 13-7e. eleven points higher The Liverpool market. due unchang- ed to one point lower. opened steady steady N one one to two points lower on near and two to four points down on later months. Spots were steady with sales estimated at 5000 bales.
 During the past week the South has been obtaining the highest prices paid for spot cotton at this period of the 1874. This fact too has been a reve- lation to the rank and file of the trade. especially the veterans of Wall ssow the pss of to market this season. From now on fl is expected that the receipts at the sinsight'' figures will be of smaller The weather map showed generally in 'f the e Central belt. The official fore rsst is for continued fair to warmer weather in the belt. The weather map is Favorable.
 Plenty of spots were offered by the factors who reported little looking around.
 The marse. was steady ye.tsgdayy points for the day.
 me ytsathsr map was favorable.
 ;ss sss @ss Pssssss P%s.sr fss ssntR tn. belt.
 me English market was not as good as expected.
 Prices for spot cotton have been sasnsr msek than lns for tSirtg-si9 SDnt % years s
 Atlanta wired: ''From the largest producing counties of the State re being beaten out of the boils and bur led in the ground by rains last week" Chicago reads: lowing to the exceed -ssy's- high cost of raw cotton, manu- lecturers have advanced the prices or
 ashed and brown muslins, tub
 e-a tide sheeting. ticking. den- inns. In fact on all domestics, re-or-
 a.e. sood and buyers are takine f--'~ af all printed fabrics percals ginghams, plain pieces. dyed fabric: a paids. The tremendous call oi last month in all ready to wear good:
 Following are some opinions of some New York cotton houses:
 endeavor Is playing, 2 prominent par and reactions are likely to follow should congestion develop on the Ions probable supply and demand remain strong"
 w. P. Brown: ''If futures were sell ing above a spot parity 1t would b, natural to expect a break from time tt time, but as that is not the case much further advance is inevitable ana probably 1t is not very far off
 Atwood. Violet & Co.,: ''The narke has merit enough to follow its owI course without the aid of manipula ton"
 Renskorf, Lyon & Co.: 'srhe only ad vice we have to give is to operate or the long side of the market, buying or recessions, If possible"
 $. B. chapin & Co.,: We expect t, see prices go ultimately much higher
 Edward Moyse 6 CO: "Enormou profit taking took place on the advance but the reaction has been insignifican and the market seems to gathe strength daily"
 Following Is a copy of a crop lette as sent out yesterday. by, Weh Broth
 Dear Sirs--A frost was had in tn northern portion or the eastern belt ol fxak Nba ktsars ,afa orse