Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-19
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF the FIeecy Staple

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Carpenter, Bag.
got & Co: Schill and ring sold market
down. Waters was best buyer. There
was little bull support outside of Waters
Rumors of Habersham Kings figures
started the selling.
The cotton exchange seat of II. a
Sands was sold to B. b. Bryan for SIS, 800
an advance of $500 over the last previous
sales.
Liverpool bought cotton in New York
all day yesterday.
The market at present seems only
professional trading affair.
Business in Manchester is booming.
Members of the cotton exchange will
meet today to vote on the new building
proposition.
Browne, Drakeford & Co. Liverpool
cable: Market advanced in consequence
of Zeraga buying ring short; no actual.
SChill, Clifford, Rice and Wiggin bought
December; Finn, Hentz and Shut sold;
Hentz Schill and McFadden bought Jan
uary; Royce, Shantz, Finn and Norden
sold.
Dallas wires: Texas, western and cen
trail, northern portions, cloudy; east and
cloudy. Temperature, Dallas, So; Okla
Shearson, Geer, Wilson, Marsh and
Waters best buyers today McGhee,
Hartcorn, Shantz, Freeman and Rail best
sellers.
Following are IL a. m. bids: October
1856; December, ITO; January, Ills;
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-Hayward &
Clark: The weather map shows perfect
conditions; generally fair in western half
little scattered showers; warmer in Okla
homa and west Texas by 2 to degrees;
partly cloudy in central states with light
scattered showers generally cloudy In
Alabama, Tennessee Atlantics, with good
rains in Tennessee, Alabama, North Caro-
lima; no frost and no storm: Tempera-
lures overnight were higher in Oklahoma
and west Texas, and on the whole are
not even as low as on August 80 and 81
last year.
The government predicts warmer
weather IN the northern belt.
A large spot house at Dallas, Texas,
wires us: Spot, demand increasing; basis
much while this condition lasts.
Dallas Texas. wires Newspaper re
ports show storm damage night before
last greater than reported in Ellis, Dallas
Johnson and Mclean counties Good in
dications of more rain here soon. Spot
basis increasing strength each day and
country selling only moderately
Our travelling man wires from Cleburne
Texas: Showers continue in central and
north Texas, delaying gathering and re-
duCing grades.
Habersham King says: "A striking il
lustration of how one weeks develop
ments may be unsafe as a guide has been
presented this week. The fact that the
threatened gulf storm has run It's course
though | am not yet in possession of the
details Of the rainfall accompanying 1t, 1t
has enabled me to record this threatened
disaster as a source Of benefit to the en-
tire states of Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee, stopping deterioration where
they with original conditions TO follow.
recover the loss sustained for the past
ten days
THE Atlantics with the exception Of
several small areas producing a total Of
perhaps half a million bales where de
terioration continues, had already at
tained this condition, together with okla
homa. so that Arkansas and the western
and central parts OF Texas represent the
remaining portion. showing continued de
terioration, as the showers Of the week
I'm Texas has been too small and scat
tered 10 afford any relief
II call attention to the Texas analysis
for the reason that ! do not include the
whole state IN the deterioration
Following are 10 u. m, bids. October,
! So, December, NO; January, HIS,
March, MA
Estimated receipts Friday
1912 tqll.
New orleans ...... 1900 a. 500 l93l
Galveston ,......,..2l. 600 10 a 500 1870