The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-03
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: Firm: middling. 15c; net
receipts, s175 gross receipts. S175;
sales, 1868; stock, 20o.S3S; to Great
Britain, 21,9s7; continent, 4374; coast
wise, 1861.
New Orleans: Steady; middling,
IA 15-1sc; net receipts, 42o4; gross re-
ceipts, 1904; sales, 1850; stock, 19S,
431; to Great Britain. $500.
Mobile: Quiet; middling. 14%c; net
receipts. 394 gross receipts, 1874; sales
SO; stock, 36.174 coastwise, %.
Savannah: Quiet; middling. 14%c;
net receipts, $50; gross receipts. $780,
sales, 1923; stock, 1859; coastwise,
1477.
Charleston: Firm. middling, 1880;
net receipts, 1927: gross receipts, 327
stock, 32.O33
Wilmington: Quiet; middling, 141kc:
net receipts, SOC; gross receipts. sos
stock 1888.
Norfolk Quiet; middling. 14%c; net
receipts, $50: gross receipts. $50; sales.
49, stock, 1858; coastwise, 462.
Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 15c
net receipts. 1921; gross receipts, 1921;
stock, 10,627.
New York: Quiet; middling, 14.S5c;
gross receipts, 3411; stock, 311,7O2;
coastwise, 2706.
Boston: Quiet; middling. 14S5c; net
receipts. 2S8; gross receipts. 1891; stock
15.463: to Great Britain, 2444.
Philadelphia: Quiet; middllng,
15.1Oc; gross receipts, $50; stock, all.
Brunswick: Net receipts, 1856; gross
receipts, SS5; continent, 6987.
Jacksonville: Net receipts, As; gross
receipts, As; coastwise. As.
Minor ports: Stock. 9239
Total today: At all ports, net 24,426;
Great Britain, 2S,231: continent, 11,361;
stock, 1,016670.
Consolidated at all ports. net, 1880;
Great Britain, 62.093; France, 25,753;
continent. 65,712; Japan. 1897.
Total since September /: At all ports,
Farnce, 70,s11; continent. 1,977,47O ia
pan, 94,771; Mexico, 1915.
Interior Movement
Houston: steady; middling. he; net re-
ceipts, 551S; gross receipts 551S; shipments
56S1: sales, 1902; stock. 92.5l3.
Augusta: Quiet; middling. IA 15-16c: net
receipts. 6S2; gross receipts. 1922; shipments
3063; sales. $40: stock, $685.
Memphis: Steady; middling. 15Ac; net
receipts, 1871; gross receipts, 1869; ship
ments, 1867; sales, 1850; stock. 20l. 1856.
st. Louis Quiet: middlng, 15Ac; net
receipts 1884, gross receipts. 1904; ship
ments, 1857: stock. 22,954.
Cincinnati: Net receipts. 2541; gross re-
ceipts. 2541; shipments. $40; stock, 1876
Little Rock: Firm middling, IA 13-16c
net receipts, 614; gross receipts, GA; ship
ments, 1874; stock, 34,473.
Louisville: Firm middling, 15Ac.
Total today: Net receipts, 1925; gross
receipts, 1885, shipments, 1881; sales,
1892; stock, 1876, 1885,
New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, February 2-Cotton fu-
lures opened steady, s to points off on
the old crop months and 3 points off on
the new. Cables were unfavorable and
selling was brisk on the first call The
new crop positions were stronger than
the old because the weather map did not
show any rain in the drouth districts in
the western half of the cotton belt
Selling was mainly from professional
traders. outsiders taking very little part
in 1t. Private cable messages from Liv-
erpool were less optimistic than for a
long time past and stimulated bearish
sentiment among local traders.
At the end OF the first half hour of
trading prices were exactly at the open
ing level.
The market strengthened toward the
middle of the morning on reports from
Waco, Dallas and other important points
in Texas, stating that accounts of rain
In that state had been greatly exagger-
ated and that only light rains had been
experienced anywhere. The soil was de-
scribed as being very dry and old cot
ton men were quoted as saying that un-
less the drouth is soon broken large
Texas crop will be an impossiblity this
coming season. October recovered to
within l point of yesterdays close and
the old crop months to within to 4
points of that level. At noon the market
was sagging again under somewhat in