The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-24
New York Cotton Fut
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: Quiet; mddling, 1411c; net
receipts 1865; gross receipts, 1866; sales,
1908; stock, s4,736-
New Orleans Steady: midding, 145sc;
net, receipts, 5191: gross receipts, SOL;
sales, $50; stock, 121, 240; exports coastwise,
1143
Mobile: Nominal; middling, 141zc; net
receipts 424 gross receipts, 424 stock,
24.5l9; exports coastwise. 126
Savannah: Quiet; middling, 141zc; net
receipts, 1885; gross receipts, 1886; stock,
40 9S3.
receipts, So; gross receipts, So; stock, 9471;
exports coastwise, 5l1.
Wilmington: Steady; middling, 1850;
net receipts, 1877; gross receipts 7S7; stock,
11,H3.
Norfolk: Steady; middlng, 14s4c: net
receipts 1919; gross receipts, 1249; sales,
1873; stock, e. 1877; exports coastwise, 1sO76.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 15lsc;
stock, 60S1.
New York: Quiet; middling, 15.15c; net
receipts. 154; gross receipts. 1916; sales,
100; stock, 206. 1885, exports to Great Britain,
1892; to continent, 80; coastwfse, $685.
Boston Quiet; middling, 15.15c; net re-
cepts, so; gross receipts, 1902; sales, 100;
stock. 90A.
Philadelphia: Steady; middling. 10. 4oc;
gross receipts, IS stock. 4155.
Port Arthur: Net receipts, 5097; gross
receipts, 50e7; exports to continent. 5o97
Port Townsend: Net receipts 100; gross
receipts, $50; exports to Japan, $50.
Total today, at all ports: Net, 1879;
exports to Great Britain. 1892 to CONT
nent 800; TO Japan. $50; stock, A7,348.
Consolidated, at all ports: Exports to
Japan, 80.
Total since September l. at all ports:
Net, 6.7o2.5ls; exports to Great Britain,
/, as7, S4s; to France 628, AZ; to continent,
2, 2s3, 7ss; to Japan, rs, 9s2; to Mexico, 1883
Interior Movement
Houston: Steady; middling. 141sc; net
receipts. 1140; gross receipts, ITO; ship
ments 1906; sales. %; stock, 1885.
Augusta: Steady; middling, 141sc; net
receipts, 36S; gross receipts, 697; ship
ments, 1890; sales, 1866; stock, 35,101
Memphis: Quiet; middling, 14%c: net
receipts, 272; gross receipts, 1908; ship
ments 1926; sales, $50; stock. $780,
St Louis: Quiet: middling, 14Ac: net
receipts, IS; gross receipts, SIG; shipments,
933: stock, 1891.
Cincinnati: Net receipts 34s; gross re-
ceipts, S4S; shipments, 1872; sales, 400;
stock. 1871.
Little Rock Quiet; middling 14Ac; net
receipts, 14S; gross receipts, 143; ship
ments, 3S1; stock, 1885,
Total today: Net receipts. 23S7 gross
receipts, 41e2; shipments, Sos7; sales, 2041
stock, $50, 923.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. April 22.-The net results
of the week in the cotton market are a
decline of to points on the old crop
months and a decline of to 10 points on
the new The market was narrow
throughout the entire week. The cold
wave had little influence; trading was re-
stricted by the federal investigation of
| the market, and the spot firm failure in
Alabama.
AS soon as the week opened prices were
Influenced unfavorably by the grand jury
| inquiry into the bull campaign in the
New York market and reports of much
damage to young cotton by frost were
more or less ignored.
crossed and the failure of Knight, Yancey
| & Co. of Decatur. Ala. served to limit
trading all the more Toward the last of
| the week the average speculator would
not touch the old crop options and not a
few bulls transferred their interest from
the near to the distant positions.
| Briefly summed up the claims OF the
bulls in regard to the new crop were
that much young cotton was destroyed by
| the cold wave that was more or less In
| evidence all the week in the cotton coun-
| try and that much seed was rotting in the
| ground instead of terminating from the
| same cause This the long side commended
should have resulted in an advance OF
| from 50 to 70 points. The bears brought
| forth many reports to prove that cotton
had been injured only in a few places,
| and that what was lost was quickly re-
| planted They claimed that the effect OF
the cold was not material. The scarcity
OF seed was made much of by the bull
side Of the market, but bears stated that