Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-01
RECEIPTS OF
cotton BROKE
ALL RECORDS
l.4l5 BALES ON YESTERDAY
Records For Single Day and
Season We're Smashed
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THE RGGORD- D-BhEAhERS.
Receipts yesterday, 1,415 bales. =
Receipts to date, 22,7OO bales. y
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Yesterday was an epochal date in
the history of the cotton business in
Americus, for it not only marked the
dav of the largest single days cotton
receipts ever known, here, but also
that of the largest receipts of cotton
for a single month.
From the beginning, the present cot
ton season has been unsual, but it was
not until yesterday that it reached the
final climax in the receipt of 1,415
bales of cotton in single day. This
he.5orke all records concerning which
there is any knowledge here, in fact,
there are but few other days, with the
exception of other Saturdays during
The present season, that can compare
with Yesterday Then it is found to
be true that yesterdays receipts ag-
gregated 100 bales more than the next
largest single days receipts of the
present season.
From these unusual figures cap be
gained very definite knowledge CT the
abnormal cotton season that has been
experienced here this year. But still
Il further and more dramatic testimony
is furnished concerning the cotton re-
ceipts in the consideration of the fact
that there have been received here
this year up to date 22,270 bales Of
cotton, as compared with II 300 bales
fsr the corresponding period of last
year. From this it appears that there
1 have been marketed here up to date
more than twice as many bales as
1were brought in up to October 1 of
last year.
So unusually large is the number
of bales marketed up to date that one
is not compelled to look up statis-
.eNics in order to prove that it is the
heaviest season ever known here. Ev-
cry warehouseman of any length of
service or familiarity with the local
field will reply at once to any query
of that kind that there can be no
doubt about its being the season of
the heaviest receipts ever known here.
With these records already estab
lished, one naturally would inquire
concerning the total receipts of the
& season, as they are forecasted today
81 by the men who handle cotton. There
is no more hesitancy on the part of
cotton men to say that the total re-
ceipts of the season will break all
records than there is for them to say
that all records have been broken up
n to date. 1t is generally agreed in this
connection that the receipts at the
close of the present season will ag-
lM gregate 10000 bales in comparison
with last seasons crop, which was
Ya0out $4,000, an average years re-
eeipts locally.
These figures tell more eloquently
than anything else could the emark-
able conditions that have existed III
lthe cotton fields of Sumter county this
n season. They tell, also, in figures that
a# are indisputable, the fact that Sumter
i county has raised very large crop
Of cotton. There may be shortages
elsewhere, but they are not true of
Ibis county, nor, probably, OF this I'M
mediate section which sends it's cot
ton largely to Americus.
The season has been distinctly unique
in the fact that more cotton has beeh
open, and open earlier, than, perhaps
has ever been true here before. Inc
kmatter of securing labor to pick the
MI large areas that have been ready loi
the harvest at one time has been one
to worry the mist careful farmer II
has, indeed, been a beneficent Prov
sion of nature that no heavy Wlnd oi
Iytn storms have been experienced al
they would have cost thousands o
dollars if they had come during thl
period when. so much open cotton ha