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

The census bureau places the total
supply Of cotton for the year ending Au-
gust 81 at I6,156.221 bales, as compared
with 17,S96.225 bales for the same pc
rod last year.
The New York Cotton Exchange VIII
open at u o'clock. noon, on Monday.
Also the stock exchange.
Dallas wires: Texas and 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 reXt few months and
must buy cotton. Business IS less &C
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 narrow margin OF profit.
The spot situation in the South IS
pretty. well portrayed in the following
dispatches 70 +. F Hutton & Co:
Atlanta, Ga. Fair demand, but
movement Just beginning in our terri
tory. crop fine
Greenvile. 5. c.; Fair demand spots,
but principally on call"
Dallas: Demand poor Interior &c
to lac out Of line. Still raising. Doing
harm now"
Not much demand spots from
Europe. hut interior price very high, and
these rains will 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"
slow with us. No improvement"
Texarkana THE rain has damaged
cotton considers bly,. AS for rains being
beneficial, it's a joke 10 people who
section are IS to 1871. Buyers are eager
AZ that Mostly exporters buying. They
realize the situation
Decatur. Ala, Spots demand only
fair. Mills are fighting hard TO bully
savannah: NO weakness spots here
l'ismly held for full prices. Offerings
spots advices to y. L. Carpenter &
Athens, Ga. Spots following decline.
but very little Offering account small
receipts"
Augusta, Ga. Fair demand, spots
bringing January prices"
Raleigh. y. G: Spots in good de
mand: paving no attention to fiuctua-
tiunS i'm futures
Anderson. 5. G. Crop conditions
good; movement free, spots locally
quarter lower than YESTERDAY"
Charlotte, y. 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 i'm sight. Just now II LOCKS as
If the substitute suggested by Senator
IIoke Smith would be accepted. This is
"A plan for regulating delivery pursuant
to sales made on exchanges House
COnfereeS are apparently favorable 10
the Smith substitute. Protests have
poured in on Congress from the South
numbers that II is now certain the
Clarke bin will have to he modified or
eliminated. The Smith amendment Of
fcred in the Senate caucus as a substi-
tute and defeated accepts the New Or
leans Exchange contract s q model,
and would require the New York En-,
change to conform to that system"
NEW ORLEANS. Sent 1s-Hayward
& Clark: The weather map is very ia
vorable; 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
Warmer in the western States.
Texas temperatures: Longview. clou-
dy. g. rain Yesterday: Temple. cloudy
66; FL Paso, clear, so; Brownsville, clear
and warm. Corsicana, cloudy; Sher-
man, Weatherford, cloudy; Brentwood,
Nacogdoches, cloudy, g.; Lampassas
clear, GO; Houston, cloudy, 81. Waxa-
hachie. cloudy, "a, Kemp, Arthur City,
cloudy and cool; Dallas, cloudy. &c; En-
mis-. cloudy Ga; Denison, cloudy. light
rain; Denton, cloudy, Sc; San Antonio
cloudy, Sc; TeXarkana, cloudy, G6; Gift.
ton, cloudy, ClebuTne, cloudy So Tyler
cloudy, 70 ComanChe, cloudy. Sc; Mount
Pleasant cloudy, Il; Greenville, cloudy
and cool, Waco, cloudy, 50; oklahoma
generally cloudy, no rain. Temperatures,
The New Orleans Times Democra,
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 a remarkable way the totals
put forward by Secretary Hester in his
annual report on September l.
The Bureau makes the total con-
sumption by Amerisan mills. North and
South, including foreign cotton, for the
year 5.7S5 600 bales while Mr.. Hester
put the total at 3 sos 600 bales. a differ
ence Of 1900, or about one-third of
per cent"
The next ginning report will be issued
at a. inf our time Thursday, October
2 and win show cotton ginned to Sep
TENDER IS and on same day at II a m.
our time the Bureau will issue it's last
regular cotton condition report of the
season, showing the condition Of cotton
CT0p on SepteulbpT 25