The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-06
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: Steady; middling, 14ssc;
net receipts, 900; gross receipts, 900;
sales, 500; stock, 1890; coastwise. 7GS.
New Orleans: Quiet; middling. 1850;
net receipts, 1888; gross receipts. 1888
sales. 81; stock, 1o2,4o7; coastwise,
1875.
Mobile Steady; middling. 141kc; net
receipts. SO; gross receipts, SO; sales.
%; stock, 2o.96S.
Savannah Steady; middling. 14zc:
net receipts. 1905; gross receipts, 1905
stock 1908: coastwise 6.
Charleston; Quiet: mddling, 14&c:
net receipts, 32 gross receipts, 49,,
stock $3.50; continent, Al.
Wilmington: Quiet; middling l4c;
net receipts, "a gross receipts, "a;
stock, 12,449
receipts. I'LL; gross receipts. ILL.,
sales COL; stock, 21,732.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling. 15Ac
stock. 7245.
New York Quiet; middling. 15.25c:
net receipts, 1885; gross receipts. 4212:
sales. 2O,4O0; stock, 246,01S continent
100.
Boston: Quiet middling. 15.25c; gross
receipts, 500; stock, 11.7O4; to Great
Britain, 276.
Philadelphia Steady; middling
15.50c; stock, 1854.
Total today at all ports. net S499,
Great Britain, 276; continent, 3475;
stock, 549,8S8.
Consolidated at all ports, net 42,441;
Great Britain. S1,O23 France, 4916;
continent, 7428.
Total since September 1 at all ports,
net e.797.S19; Great Britain. 2,O24,231;
France. Ss3,b1s; continent 2,223,265; ia
pan, 1884; Mexico, 1878.
Interior Movement.
Houston: Steady; middling. 14Ac;
net receipts, SIG; gross receipts, 61s;
shipments, 26e; sales, 49, stock, 4O,-
522.
Augusta: Quiet; middling. 14%c; net
receipts, 81 gross receipts, CT; ship
ments, 1850; sales. 1856; stock, 27,643.
Memphis: Steady; middling, 14Nc;
net receipts. So; gross receipts, 422;
shipments, 1871; sales, $50; stock, a..
14b.
st. Louis: Quiet; middling. 14xc: net
receipts. rs; gross receipts, 1862; shin
ments, 1905 stock, 1885,
Cincinnati:s Net receipts, 362; gross
receipts, 1852; shipments, 2lO; stock.
14,OO7.
Little Rock: Quiet; middling, IA Lice;
net receipts, 427 gross receipts. 427:
shipments, SAB; stock, 29,5O2.
Total today: Net receipts, 1885; gross
receipts, 1885, shipments, 6045; sales,
ITO; stock, 220,477.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans. May 5.-Cotton futures
opened steady at an advance of 2 to 4
points on a better Liverpool market than
expected and continued dry weather in
the cotton belt After the call consid-
cradle fresh buying from outside sources
came in and the advance In July was IN
creased to points, while the new crop
months stood to 5 points up. At the
end of the first half hour of trading
scalping longs were taking profits, which
checked the advancing tendency and re-
duced the rise or points. Fastening
the profit taking was the forecast for I'M
settled weather and showers for the
western half of the cotton belt
Reports from east Texas and important
sections of Mississippi that little cotton
was UP had stimulating effect ON the
market. and from the middle of the
morning until noon the tone was very
steady. Prices of all the more active
months in both crops were put 8 points
over Yesterdays closing. Shorts who
had sold In the early trading on the ap-
parently reliable report of half an inch
OF rain in Texas, on the average bought
back their cotton when it was shown by
official returns that rain of consequence
had visited but two points i'm Texas. and
this buying helped prices. Bulls were not
aggressive and the market advanced of its
own accord AT noon the tone was quiet
and steady and prices were a point or
two down from the top.
l., the afternoon session both sides OF
the market seriously considered the
chances of rain in the cotton belt over
night, and as the forecast was in favor
OF the bears. prices fell off until at 2