The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-03

Galveston: Quiet; middling, 145s; net
receipts 4244, gross receipts, 4244; stock,
1924 coastwise, 40496.
New Orleans. Quiet: Riddling 1850; net
receipts 1903; gross receipts 1905; sales,
a25; stock, 109,049; Great Britain, 5000;
continent Ills.
Mobile: Quiet; middling 14ssc; net re-
ceipts 80; gross receipts, 80; stock 2o,7s2;
coastwise. %.
Savannah: Quiet: middling, 141ac; net
receipts, s37; gross receipts, 1877; sales,
15; stock, 40,5O4; coastwise. 1915.
Charleston: Nominal net receipts. s.;
gross receipts, 8; stock, SOS.
Wilmington: Quiet; middling, 1880; net
1927.
Norfolk: Steady; middling, 14%c; net
receipts. 113S; gross receipts. 11sS; sales,
SO; stock. 20.s10; coastwise, 1882.
Baltimore: Nominal middling Is 1-Sc:
net receipts $50; gross receipts, 675 stock
724S.
New York: Quiet; middling, 1925; gross
receipts, 1927; sales, 17S.S00; stock, 242 1856
Boston: Quiet; middling. 1925; net re-
ceipts, 124; gross receipts, 1913; stock, TO-
26s.
Philadelphia: Steady; middling, 1850;
gross receipts, 100; stock, 1925.
Today. at all ports, net receipts, 1887
Great Britain, 5000; continent, Ills; stock
65o,50e.
Consolidated, at all ports, net receipts
1919; Great Britain 1854; France, 1916;
continent, 1908.
net receipts, 6,769,763; Great Britain, g.
0o6SS2; France. $685. continent, 2,317,-
800; Japan, 1884; Mexico, 1889.
Interior Movement
Houston: Steady: middling 1880; net
receipts 2214; gross receipts, 2214: ship
ments. I'LL; sales, 15s; stock, 1881.
Augusta: Quiet; net receipts, 200; gross
receipts, 200; shipments, 2SO; sales, 8;
stock 82,626.
Memphis: Steady; middling, 14Nc; net
receipts, 374; gross receipts, 419; ship
ments, 1854; sales, 800; stock 76,621.
st. Louis: Quiet midding, 14%c; nat
receipts, Is; gross receipts, 81; shipments,
1874; stock, 3,817.
Cincinnati: Net receipts, 145; gross re-
ceipts, 145; shipments, 1873; stock, 1857.
Little Rock: Quiet: middling IA 1-1sc met
receipts, "a; gross receipts, "a; shipments,
8; stock. 3O,295.
Total today: Net receipts. 297s; gross
receipts. 1856; shipments, S7O5; sales, 66s;
stock, 2c9,609
New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, May 2-Cotton futures
opened quiet point off to 8 points up.
Cables were better than expected and the
weather forecast for colder weather
caused considerable nervousness among
shorts with the result that soon after the
call October stood points over Satur-
days closing. July opened / point down.
but reacted and advanced a couple OF
points over Saturdays last quotation
The market had little life and bulls
evirced no disposition to force things,
with the result that at the end of the
first half hour Of trading October was
5 points and July was points down from
the top
ket by reports from Texas and Alabama
that the drouth was getting serious July
and October went points over Satur-
days closing and December went pointa
over. There was no life In the trading.
however, and toward noon the downward
trend of prices in the stock market De-
gan to have an effect. At noon the old
crop months we're l point down and the
new crops were to s points up COM
pared with Saturdays last quotations.
Many cablegrams were received from
Liverpool and Manchester stating that
the meeting between master spinners and
operatives had adjourned with no definite
action being taken on the question of
wage reduction. The uncertainty in this
quarter was against the market. :
Iii the afternoon session little business
was done and prices barely moved. At 2.
o'clock the July position was unchanged,
while the new crop months were points
up, compared with Saturdays closing.