Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP
Of TIE FIeeCy Staple

NEW YORK, Aug. 16-Carpenter,
Baggot & Co: Miss Giles reports condi-
ton of August IL at 1854, or q deteTiora-
ton Of 80 per cent when condition was
1910. This compares with S0.4 d month
ago, 81 per cent last year and 1872 in
Liverpool cables: Weld and continent
selling and lack Of spot demand caused
decline here"
Dallas wires: Texas and Oklahoma
generally clear and pleasant; cloudy a.
san Antonio"
McFadden, Wenman Marsh and Guild
bought March; SChin and Gwathmey
sold; Lee. Schill, Mitchell and Rothschild
, oought December; Stack, Sedenberg,
Guild and Cohen sold
Inc journal of Commerce reports a fair
ana average trade among dry goods job
! perS Urinary cotton goods markets are
steadler in consequence of the slight up
ward turn in raw cotton. Buying Of
print cloths smaller Many cotton yarn
I splnners in the South have work enough
| ahead for three months.
The heavy selling Of Riordan, Gwath-
mey, McGhee Rosenberg and Rothschild
| soiG the market off today during the
Meridian weather ideal; moisture suf-
hcient; rayages of bon 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 Reliable
! party in office from just across Texas
line says that 5000 bon weeviI were found
/ Yesterday IN two acres. Such reports are
! on the increase"
Hood. Herne * Co, Liverpool. cable as
! ioiiuWS: Manchester accounts are ia
Vorable. 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 cousump-
| uon; We have unfaVorable opinion of
market until half crop marketed
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16 Hayward &,
| ozark The map shows splendid weather;
! cloudy in south Texas and AtlantiCs, fair
elsewhere light showers in north central
| and northeastern part of belt good rains
| IN North Carolina, where needed; tenn
perature normal. Indications are for fur
| 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 at
not give one place that has more receipts
! for the week than last year.
! Houston receives more cotton today
a agairs last E% 33 o keGeipts today 922%
| this week LAO, against S39 last year:
| Dallas has a new bale also Palestine
It was rumored that rain had fallen at
| victoria and Markham in south Texas.
! New Orleans TimeS-DemOCrat S sum
| mary The bulls say: The August
! movement Is falling well below exporters
| expectations; rains in the Atlantic states
ana 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
/ sturdtneSS, and will make no more cotton
/ than last year, while the crop i'm the At
I iant1c states must he much below last
years freak yield, which resulted from a
! complete combination of extraordinarily
! favorable conditions COnsumptiOn 1872