The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-09
COTTON MARKETDULL
70 BALES NEW STAPLE SOLD YEs-
 TERDAYi PRICE 12.65 TO I2.1o.
Temporary Decline--BulIish Let. ter Tells or Probnbili-
 ty or 11 Cents.

The local cotton market continues dull. The fall activities are slow in e opening up owing to the shortage in the continued picking and non.msrE. N bales of the new staple cotton were so,s aaona in the ,,sS Square yesterday from down to is i-s | cents. s ~ i1'''
 The receipts both by wagon and rail msn msre , nshs sltih,oush ,, one ,Sn warehouse raiI to arrive late in the afternoon. The receipts for the day were between 2oo and 25o bales. One sale of s3 tween sae and nd pHass ass csnE,ns esnts fse es faii-ls but the market declinea ister sr and fne price asked in the afternoon
 The farmers in the surrounding sa sSSntEs tSse aIs pIsn.s s. nesS EEoa rain farmer said that he had tied one or two blooms on to see if they would stay and that the. weather was such detached from the stalk. The top crop will make a fair yield If the proper seasons are gotten in the near future: that the farmer had been crying time the wolf" was at. the door and people generally are believing the cry
 The sinners' report was hisLer than was expected and caused temporary decline in the market. This will de. can result in no permanent depression. As general rule the shorter the crop the quicker will be the movement and the largest on record. 47s.s55 bales, and yet. the crop was small. only io:- 750.060 bales. The ginners' report In hfrataG a fraaF rnnVnmAnt ann hence the temporary decline.
 The movement is slow in local cir se so @ sssfns if the sstW.sn Ss buyers and the sellers. The receipts heavier the buyers and the sellers win get together: t As high as 12.sb was day and the buyers are offering from IF 1.2 up to IF s-16 cents.
 A local warehouseman is in receipt commission house in New. York which is very bullish The prediction is for higher. prices and the opinion Is ex. cents.
 December futures touched 12.so and then declined. closing IS points from hs1es Eeport shoMs eon tinued drouth throughout the South with rain in very few places, It Is sne saews that S should have a tendency to cause prices to advance.
 The ginnings as given in the census bureau report of the cotton ginned up to September Is as follows: 377562 bales against 402.0 last year and 900, ,000 year before when the crop was snnad ssxsa a9q ssss hssa asanst %9 ssssoo Gs ess year. Alabama 13.373 against 26.3oO: Georgia 105,927 against G4,6s3 and Mississippi 1.570 against 4.sSo last year.
 The weekly weather map follows:
 The mean temperature for The week was 70 to 80 degrees over the East ern portion of the belt and was so to S4 degrees over the Western portion. The temperature was lowest over North Carolina and highest over Lou isiana and East Texas. The ,emperl- ture was above normal except in the Carolinas, Eastern and Western Geor- gia and Middle and Eastern Tennes. see. The average daily excess was degrees at Mobile, Meridian. Palestine and Fort Smith,
 Rain fell during the week in nearly amounts were light except in scatter; was over Northwestern Oklahoma: where one station reports 2.74. few widely scattered stations in nearly ev- cry cotton growing State report more than one inch of rain. and Fort worth, Texas, Nashville. Tenn, and Charles ton, eS. G. report two inches or more. No rain fen during the week at some stations in the SCarolinas nor Eastern Georgia, or Central Mississippi.