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

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Carpenter Rag
| 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 3. 3. Bryan for S1S,50Q
an advance of $500 over the last previous
! sales.
! Liverpool bought cotton in New York
all day yesterday.
The market al present seems only a
! 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 Wggin bought
| December; Finn, Hentz and Shut sold :;
| Hentz, SChill and McFadden bought Jan
uary; Royce, Shantz, Finn and Norden
! Dallas wires: Texas. western and cen
| trail. northern portions, cloudy; east and
panhandle, clear: BALANCE clear TO part
homa, clear and cool"
Shearson. Geer. Wilson. Marsh and
| Waters best buyers today McGhee.
Hartcorn, ShantZ, Freeman and Rail best
sellers.
Following are II a. M bids; October,
ii,5i December, l170 January Ills;
NEW ORLEANS, Sept Hayward &
Clark: The weather map shows perfect
conditions generally fair in western half;
homa and west Texas by 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 30 and 81
last year.
The government predicts warmer
weather in the northern belt.
\ large spot house at Dallas. Texas
wires us; Spot demand increasing; basis
advancing; market can not give away
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-
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
threa tened gulf storm has run its course,
though ! am not yet in possession OF the
details OF the rainfall accompanying it. il
has enabled me to record this threatened
disaster as u 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.
"rhe Atantics with the exception Of
several small areas producing total OF
perhaps half million bales where de
terioration continues, had already at
tuined this condition, together with okla
huma, 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
in Texas has been too small and scat
tered TO afford any relief
~ call attention to the Texas analysis
for the reason that I do not include the
whole state in the deterioration.
Following are 10 o. ~. bids October
0 So, December, no, January, MS;
March. 4 %.
Estimated receipts Friday
tgl2 lHll.
New oueanH. .... 500 10 500 931
Galveston ..........3l 600 10 ~ 500 1910