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 16.l56.2-1 bales. as compared
with lI.SS6.c26 bales for the same pc
TiOd last year.
The New York Cotton Exchange will
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 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 uH-
less the market advances extremely,
though on narrow margin Of profit.
The spot situation in the South IS
pretty well portrayed in the follow ing
dispatches to Z. +. Hutton & Co:
Atlanta. Ga. Fair demand, but
movement iuot. beginning in our terri
Cireenville. 5. G.. Fair demand spots.
but principally on call"
Dallas: Demand poor. Interior J, &C
to PC out Of line. still raising. Doing
Not much demand spots from
Europe. but interior price very high. ana
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 win 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 TO people who
know. Prices being paid for spots in this
section are l& 10 1872 Buyers are ger
a that. Mostly exporters buying They
realize the situation"
Decatur. Ala. spots demand only
fair. Mills are lighting hard TO bully
cheap basis coton"
Savannah: No weakness spots here.
Firmly held for full prices. offerings
spots advices to y. L. Carpenter &
Co:
Athens. Ga. "Suots following decline.
but very little Offering account small
receipts"
Augusta. Ga: Fair demand, spots
bringing January prices"
Raleigh. y. C.: Spots in good de-
mand: paying no attention to fuctua-
tons in futures"
Anderson, :. e. 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 i'm sight Just now 1t Locks as
II the substitute suggested by Senator
HOke Smith would be accepted This is
a plan for REGULATE 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
against the Clarke proposal in such
numbers that 1t is now certain the
Clarke bin will have to be modified or
eliminated. The Smith amendment Of
fered in the Senate caucus as substl-
tute and defeated accepts the New Or
leans Exchange contract as a model,
and would require the New York Ex.,
change to conform to that system"
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 16.-Hayward
* Clark. The weather map is very IA
vorahle. shows partly cloudy in the
eastern States, no rain, but cloudy in
the central and eastern states. with gen
nral rainfall, mostly light. under half
Jricts. where some heavier rains fell.
Warmer in the western States
Texas temperatures: Lougview. clou-
ely, Ga rain yesterday. Temple, cloudy.
&c. Fl Paso, clear. 60: Brownsville. clear
and warm: Corsicana. cloudy, Sher-
man, Weatherford. cloudy: BroWnwood.
NacogdocHes. cloudy. g.. Iampassas
clear. c.. Houston, cloudy, Sc; WsXa-
hachie. cloudy, g. Kemp Arthur CITY.
cloudy ard cool: Dallas. cloudy. Go: En-
mis-, cloudy, "a. DensOn. cloudy. light
rain: Denton cloudy. Sc; san Antonio,
cloudy, -. ToNarkaua. cloudy. &c: cir.
cloudy. 20. Comanche, CLOUDY, 66 Mount
Pleasant cloudy, n. GrePnyiHr. cloudy
and cool. Waco, cloudy. 10. Oklahoma
generally cloudy. no rain. Temperatures,
CO to 81 degrees
Ths New Orleans Times-D Democrat
says The wire Of the Census Bureau
for Angst on Gotten consumption in the
United states. promulgated from Wash
ingtun yesterday. completed the data
for the commercial year. The totals are
about as predicted in this column and
confirm in a remarka bic way the totals
nut forward by Secretary Hester in his
annual report on September T.
The Bureau makes the total con-
sumption by Amerisan mills. North and
South. including foreign cotton, for the
year 5,IS6.unO bales. while Mr. Hester
puJ the total at 5.S0j, 900 bales. a diffei-
ence Of 1900, or about ouc-third. Of
per cent
The next ginning report viii be issued
at e a. mn our time Thursday October
. and VIII show cotton ginned to Sep
icmber - qua on same day at II a.. M
our time, the Bureau viii issue its last
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