The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-13
New York Cotton Futures.


| Galveston Quiet; middling, 15Hc; net
receipts, 1874; gross receipts. 1914; sales,
| 27s; stock, 52.120; exports to continent,
ella; coastwise, 542.
New Orleans Firm; middling, 15c: net
| receipts, 3497; gross receipts 1900; stock.
94s42.
Mobile: Steady; middling. IA 15-16c; net
receipts, 705; gross receipts, 705; sales
TO; stock 2O,504.
Savannah: Steady; middling. 147sc; net
receipts, 1882; gross receipts, 300; stock.
SO, 104; exports coastwise, %.
Charleston: Firm; midding, 14Ac; net
receipts, 5; gross receipts, s: stock 1904
Wilmington: Quiet; middling, 14ssc; net
receipts, 1854; gross receipts, 1874; stock, 49,
ISL.
Norfolk: Firm; middling, 154c: net re-
ceipts, 4S4; gross receipts 4S4; sales, 1856;
stock, 1888; exports coastwise. 1852.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 1855;
stock, $685.
New York: Quiet; middling, 1850; net
receipts, 555; gross receipts, 1924 sales,
1885, stock, 20,135; exports to continent,
$685.
Boston, Quiet; middling, 1885, net re-
oeipts, IS; gross receipts, 1873; stock, 1884.
Philadelphia: Steady; middling, 1920;
gross receipts, 14o; stock, 1401
San Francisco: Net receipts, 572; gross
receipts, 1872; exports to Japan, 1872.
ports to France. 4474; continent. n,776; to
Japan 1879; stock. 510.9S6
Consolidated. at all ports: Net, E.939;
exports to Great Britain, 1895; continent,
A,e2s, to Japan. 1872.
Total since September, at all ports;
Net, 6,S5503S exports to Great Britain,
2,O55,2S9; to France, S37,ss2; to continent,
2, $50. 3S9; to Japan, S6,411; to Mexico,
1883
Interior Movement
Houston: Steady; middling, 15lsc; net
receipts, 931; gross receipts 931; ship
ments III; sales. sos; stock, T439.
Augusta: Steady; middling. 15Ac: net
receipts, 81; gross receipts, 81; shipments.
49, sales, 81; stock. 70212.
Memphis: Steady; middling, 15c; net re-
oeipts, 116; gross receipts, 225; shipments,
100; sales, 400; stock, CLIO.
st. Louis: Steady; middling 14Hc; net
receipts. Il gross receipts, sl4; shipments,
1884, sales. 500; stock, S1,Os1.
Cincinnati: Net receipts, INA; gross re-
oeipts, TIA; shipments. 22S4; stock. 1926.
Little Rock Steady; middling, l4ssc;
net receipts, 10; gross receipts, 10; ship
ments $685. stock, 2S,l94.
Total today: Net receipts, 2S05; gross re-
ceipts, s72s: shipments, 2sT5; sales, 1884;
stock, 1910
New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, May 12--Cotton futures
opened steady at an advance of to 7
points. Cables were slightly better than
expected and a good demand from shorts
vas In evidence on the first call. The
market was moderately active in the first
half hour of trading, but the advance
was checked by realizing sales from
longs The old crops were put to .
points above yesterdays closing, but the
best the new crops could do was rise
of s points. Shorts In the new crop po-
sitions were less confident than they were
Yesterday owing to the failure of rains to
materiali7e over the cotton country.
Practically no rain was reported any
where in the belt. Crop accounts. how
ever. were more favorable than other
wise. although several sections continued
TO complain o. the lack Of moisture.
Bulls became aggressive as the morn
ing grew older and their purchases of the
summer months caused excitement ana
rut both July and August % points over
Yesterdays closing. July touched l5,4sc
and August 1495c, showing difference
o. 81 points. Considerable trading was
done on the belief that these differences
would wholly disappear. The new crop
months continued 70 lag behind and q
large straddling business was put through
OH the growing conviction that the dife~-
ence between July and 'tohe" would
greatly widen. Some bulls predicted that
the difference would grow 20 800 points,
AZ the highest Of the morning October
was. is points up and December was IA
~. Reports from west Texas and some