The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-16
Daily Cotton Movement

| Galveston: Steady; middling, 15c; net
receipts. $50; gross receipts, 7S9; sales 200;
stock 45.006.
| New Orleans: Steady; middling, 15c; net
receipts. 6s4; gross receipts, SS4; sales, $40;
stock, 72,577: exports, to continent, 31ci
coastwise, 8.
Mobile: Firm; middling, 14ac; net re-
ceipts, 81; gross receipts. 81; sales, 100;
stock, 1880.
Savannah: Easy; midding, 147sc; net
receipts, PAS; gross receipts 456; sales,
1000; stock, 25.25s; coastwise, 2os
Charleston: Nominal; net receipts, Is;
gross receipts. Is; stock. 1890
Wilmington: Nominal; net receipts, 10;
gross receipts. 10; stock. 1857.
Norfolk: Steady; middling, 15c; net re-
ceipts. 221 gross receipts, POI; sales, 15;
stock, s4s9; coastwise 275.
Baltimore: Nomntl; middiing, 16Sc;
stock, 506s.
New York: Quiet; middling, 1T.25c; gross
receipts. 1o77; sales. 1916; stock. 172,2s7;
coastwise. $685.
Boston: Quiet; middling, 1925; gross re-
ceipts, 754; stock, 1866.
Philadelphia: Steady; middling, 1880;
stock. 1856.
Total today at all ports, net 2O2s ex-
ports, to continent, s1O1; stock, s62o21.
Consolidated at all ports. net, 1921;
exports. to Great Britain, s4,6s7; France,
4S43 continent, 1922
Total since September 1, at all ports,
net. 7o9s,ss6; exports, to Great Britain,
2,214,s24 France, Ss2,S1O continent, 1885,
7S; Japan. s0,S61; Mexico, 1884.
Interior Movement
Houston: Quiet; middling, 14%c net
receipts. 434; gross receipts. 49, ship
ments. 1000; stock, 21.72s.
Augusta :Quiet; middling. 15c; net re-
ceipts. 66; gross receipts, 167; shipments,
1885, sales, 22S; stock, Is, 23s.
Memphis Steady; middling, 15c; net re-
ceipts, 25; gross receipts, 70; shipments.
1895: sales. 265o; stock, 3s,ss7.
St. Louis: Steady; net receipts. 50; gross
receipts, $685. shipments, 1888; stock 49,
554.
Cincinnati: Net receipts, So; gross re-
cepts, So; shipments, 1859; stock, 1O.S35:
Louisville: Firm; middling. 15c.
little Rock: Quiet! middling, 144c; net
receipts. II: gross receipts, II; shipments.
&c., stock, 20915.
Total today: Net receipts col; gross re-
ceipts, 1444 shipments, 4sS2; sales. 2s7s;
stock. 134,25
New Orleans, Ju..e 15.--Cotton futures
opened quiet at a decline of 3 to 6 points.
Liverpool was very disappointing on the
near positions which led to talk of SELL
ing by prominent long interests. The
weather map was favorable except in
the extreme eastern portion of the cot
ton country where heavy rains were
again indicated. The ring was inclined
to be bearish and in the absence of
any bull support held the market down
to the initial decline in the first half
hour of trading.
Reports from two points in the earliest
sections of Texas that cotton was OPEN
ing in sufficient quantity to make pos
sible the belief that first bales would
come on the market before the end of
June increased bearish sentiment but
around the middle of the morning sup
port was offered July and the price was
quickly put up until It was points over
Yesterdays closing. other months were
not as strong. August still remaining /
point under yesterdays last quotation.
October made a net advance of l point
but December at its highest was still
2 points under yesterday. At noon the
market was quiet and steady at about
the highest of the morning.
In the afternoon session the market
developed an easy tone under renewed
short selling biased on optimistic re-
ports from the western cotton belt and
the list fell until at ? o'clock 1t was to