Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-17
COTTON GOSSIP

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The census bureau places the total
supply OF cotton for the year ending Au-
gust 81 at 1916. 22l bales, as compared
with l7,S96.226 bales fOr the same Pc
Tiod last year.
The New York Cotton Exchange VII
open at u o'clock. noon, on Monday.
Also the stock exchange.
Dallas wires: Texas ard Oklahoma
generally cloudy; no rain reported in
either State
Liverpool cables that Manchester has
failed to confirm gloomy trade reports.
The majority of English spinners are
committed for the next few months and
must buy cotton. Business is less aC-
tive, but this is deemed natural, owing
TO the late advances. and Manchester
authorities look for full consumption un-
less the market advances extremely,
though on a narrow margin of profit.
The spot situation in the South is
pretty well portrayed in the following
dispatches 10 f. T. Hutton & Co:
Atlanta. Ga: Fair demand, but
movement just beginning in our terri
Greenyiile. S. c.: Fair demand spots,
but principally on call"
Dallas: Demand poor Interior &c
10 l2c out Of line. Stil raising Doing
harm now"
Not much demand spots from
Europe, but interior price very high, and
these rains viii stop movement and
selling, which is the main thing Europe
has been waiting for. Think good pur-
chase"
Fort Worth. Texas: Demand much
improved at better basis Spots have
not followed decline"
Houston: Heavy rains all over
State will make low grade and retard
movement. Better inquiry for spots"
Oklahoma city: spots demand very
slow with us. No Improvement"
TeXarkana: The rain has damaged
cotton considerably. AS for rains being
beneficial. it's a joke 10 people who
know. Prices being paid for spots in this
section are IL to 1872. Buyers are eager
at that. Mostly exporters buying They
realize the situation"
Decatur. Ala. spots demand only
fair. Mills are fighting hard to bully
cheap basis cotton"
Savannah: No weakness spots here.
Firmly held for fun prices. Offerings
spots advices to y. l. Carpenter &
Co.
Athens, Ca. spots following decline.
but very little Offering account small
receipts"
Augusta. Ca: Fair demand, spots
bringing January prices"
Raleigh n. G.. Spots in good de
mand; paving no attention to fiuctua-
tons in futures
Anderson. ). G. Crop conditions
good; movement free spots locally
quarter lower than Yesterday
Charlotte. \. C.: Think our crop
doing well, absolutely dependent on late
frost for good yield"
Advices from Washington say; Com
promise on the Clarke COTTON tax amend
ment IS IN sight. Just now It locks as
if the substitute suggested by Senator
Hoke Smith would be accepted This Is
a plan for regulating delivery pursuant
to sales made on exchanges. House
conferees are apparently favorable TO
the Smith substitute Protests have
poured in on Congress from the South
against the Clarke proposal in such
numbers that it is now certain the
Clarke bin win have to he modified or
eliminated. The Smith amendment Of
fered in the Senate caucus as a substi-
tute ard defeated accepts the New Or
leans Exchange contract as a model,
and would require the New York E,Xz
change to conform to that system"
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 16-Hayward
& Clark. The weather map is very IA
yOTable, shows partly cloudy in the
eastern States no rain, but cloudy in
the central and eastern States, with gen
eral rainfall, mostly light, under half
inch, except in Mobile and Memphis dis
tricts, where some heavier rains fell
Warmer in the western States.
Texas temperatures: Longview, CIou-
dy Ga, rain yesterday; Temple, cloudy,
&C; FL Paso, clear so; Boonsvile clear
and warm; COTSicana, cloudy: Sher-
man, Weatherford, cloudy; Brentwood,
NacogdoChes, cloudy, 50; Lampassas,
clear, g.; Houston, cloudy, So; Waxa-
hachie. cloudy, "a; Kemp, Arthur City,
cloudy and cool; Dallas, cloudy Sc: En-
mis-. cloudy "a; Denison, cloudy, light
rain: Denton. cloudy. IS, San Antonio
cloudy, G.; TeXarkana, cloudy, 65; Cliff.
ton. cloudy; Cleburne. cloudy So; Tyler.
Pleasant, cloudy, II: Greenville, cloudy
ana cool; Waco. cloudy, GO; oklahoma
generally cloudy, no rain. Temperatures,
60 to "a degrees.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says: The wire Of the Census Bureau
for Angst on cotton consumption in the
United States. promulgated from Wash
ington yesterday, completed the data
for the commercial year The totals are
about as predicted in this column and
confirm in remarkable way the totals
put forward by Secretary Hester in his
annual report on September J.
THE Bureau makes the total con-
sumption by Ameris~n mills, North and
South, including foreign cotton, for the
year 5,7S6 600 bales. while Mr. Hester
put the total at 5.8O5 900 bales. a differ
ence Of $4,000, or about one third of
per cent"
The next ginning report will be issued
at . a. mtl our time Thursday, October
: and VIII show cotton Ginned to Sep
TENDER p ana on same day at II a. m
our time. the Bureau will issue its last
regular cotton condition report of the
season, showing the condition Of cotton
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