Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17
NEWS AND GOSSIP
Of the FleeCy Staple

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Carpenter.
Bt5aggot Co; Miss Giles reports condi-
Llon OF 81 per cent when condition was
1910. This compares with S04 a month
age, "a per cent last year and 1872 in
Liverpool cables: weld and continent
selling and lack of spot demand caused
Dallas wires: Texas and Oklahoma
generally clear and pleasant; cloudy at
McFadden Wenman Marsh and Guild
bought March; Schill and Gwathmey
sold; Lee. Schill, Mitchell and Rothschild
bought December; Stack Sedenberg
Guild and Cohen sold.
The journal of Commerce reports a fair
and average trade among dry goods Job
bers. Primary cotton goods markets are
sleddler IN consequence of the slight up
ward turn in raw cotton. Buying of
print cloths smaller. Many cotton yarn
splnners in the South have work enough
ahead for three months
The heavy selling of Riordan, Gwath
mey, McGhee, Rosenberg and Rothschild
sold the market off today during the
early trading.
Meridian weather ideal; moisture suf-
hclent; raVages Of boil weevil increase as
crop advances; crop about 70 per cent OF
Birmingham, Ala, wires: Crops in
this section would be magnificent if it
We're middle of July instead of August.
Shreveport, Texas, wires: <"Relia BILE
party in office from just across Texas
me says that 5000 boil weevil were found
Yesterday in two acres. Such reports are
on the increase"
Hood Hernie & Co, Liverpool cable as
1olloWs: Manchester accounts are ia
N0rable. There is no demand for spots
spinners have bought freely lately, and we
expect they will now fall back on their
stocks and take less than their consump-
ton. We have unfavorable opinion of
market until half crop marketed -
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16.-Hayward &
LARK: The map shows splendid weather;
cloudy IN south Texas and AtantiCs; fair
elsewhere; light showers in north central
and northeastern part of belt; good rains
IN North Carolina, where needed; tenn
ther rains in North Carolina, where they
DO much good; part cloudy in AtlantiCs :
cloudy IN west and south Texas, with bet
ter prospects for rain there over Sunday
Generally fair central states and Ala
bama.
East Texas wires following: Cater
pillars doing serious damage in this sec
ton"
The statement giving the movement az
interior towns for the week so far does
not give one place that has more receipts
Tor the week than last year.
Houston receives more cotton today
against $3.50 last year BrenRam has
TINS week 1,47O, against 500 last year
Dallas has a new bale, also Palestine.
1t was rumOred that rain had fallen at
victoria and Markham in south Texas.
New Orleans Times Democrat sum
mary: The bulls say: The August
movement is falling well below exporters
expectations; rains in the Atlantic states
and at an early date would make the
demand for early cotton acute; the
character of the complaints from Texas
justify the belief that the plants lacks
sturdiness, and will make no more cotton
than last year, while the crop in the At
IantiC states must be much below last
years freak YIELD which resulted from a
complete combination of extraordinarily
favorable conditions Consumption 1912
1913 Will pTOba bk equal that of 1q11-1q12