The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-24
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: quiet; mlddf1ng, 15c; net
receipts, 1896; gross receipts, 1896;
1922.
New Orleans: Firm; middling, 15c;
net receipts, 1887; gross receipts, 3645;
sales, 500; stock, S0,413; to Great Brit
ain, 1000; continent, 20.
Mobile: Net receipts, 222; gross re-
ceipts, 222; stock, 1910; coastwise,
1851.
Savannah: Quiet: Middling, 14.4sc;
net receipts, 100; gross receipts, 100.
sales, 1875; stock, 25,929; coastwise,
1856.
Charleston: Nominal; net receipts, 77;
stock, 1904; coastwise, EOS.
Wilmington Quiet; middling, 14% c.:
net receipts. 253; gross receipts, 259;
stock, 1913.
Norfolk: Quiet; middling, 1880; net
receipts, 1441; gross receipts, 1441;
sales. 100; stock, 1888; coastwise,
2762.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 1870;
gross receipts, 400 stock, 1908.
New York: Quiet; middling, 1900
net receipts. $50; gross receipts, 1881;
sales, 1885; stock, 261,743.
Boston: Quiet; middling, 15.40c; net
receipts, IL; gross receipts, 1916; stock,
1853
Philadelphia: Steady; middling,
1886; stock, 1904.
Total today at all ports, net 11,572;
Great Britain. 1000; continent, 1922;
Japan, 316; stock, 4S4,075.
Consolidated at all ports. net 20,092;
Great Britain, 81. 500; continent, 22SO;
Japan, 316.
Total since September / at all ports,
net s.s57.52O; Great Britain, 2.1o4.4ss;
France, S43,7S5:, continent, 2,996,799;
Japan, S6.907; Mexico, 1888.
Interior Movement
Houston Steady; middling. 15c net
receipts. 1892 gross receipts, 1892; ship
ments, 2174; sales. 915; stock, 2s,o26.
Augusta: Quiet; middling. 15Bc; net
receipts. 145; gross receipts, SlS; ship
ments, 495; sales, 1874; stock, 1896.
Memphis: Quiet; middling, 15Bc; net
receipts, 2SS; gross receipts, $50; ship
ments. 1886; sales, $50; stock, $500.
ST. Louis. Quiet; middling, 15c; gross
receipts. 1852; shipments, 1852; stock,
2S,S1S.
Cincinnati: Net receipts. 761; gross
receipts, 761 shipments, Sal; stock,
140S9.
net receipts, S73; gross receipts, S73;
shipments, 81; stock, 26.425.
Louisville: Firm middling, 15hc.
Total today: Net receipts, 1889; gross
receipts, 1865; shipments, 512S; sales
1889; stock, 1862.
New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, May 23.-Cotton futures
opened steady at an advance of 7 to IA
points on reports of too much rain over
Sunday from many sections of the cotton
belt. Some points in Texas reported over
10 inches of rain in two days, which
resulted in the washing of crops and put
ting them in standing water. After the
call the old crop months stood u to Is
points up, while the new crops were 9
to II up. The weather affected the old
crops more than the new, because the
short interest In the old positions was
more easily frightened Gables were
about as expected, and shorts took cour-
age from the lack of any crop scare in
the Liverpool market and at the end of
the first half hour of trading put out
enough cotton to check the advance.
Selling increased toward the middle of
the morning and the pressure was suffi-
Client to put October down to the level of
Saturdays closing while the other active
deliveries lost all but 2 points of their
advance. The bear side was greatly en-
couraged by the receipt of kilograms
from points here and there in the cotton
belt to the effect that the rains were
saving the crop after long weeks
Of drouth. Not few districts In Texas
reported the best rains in from one to
two years. Some damage to crops was
admitted. but It was claimed that the
great good to follow from the moisture
being put into tn eground would more
being offset any present harm> The bulls