Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-16
COTTON GOSSIP

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The census bureau places the total
supply Of cotton for the year ending Au
gust 81 at l6.l56. 81 bales. as compared
with l7.S96.226 bales for the same pc
riod last year.
The New York Cotton Exchange will
open al y 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 fun 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 TO z. F Hutton a Co:
Atlanta, Ga. Fair demand. but
movement just beginning in our terri
Greenyille 5. c.: Fair demand spots,
but principally on call"
Dallas: Demand poor, Interior &c
to &c out Of line. Still raising, Doing
harm now"
Not much demand spots from
Europe, but 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 al 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
know. Prices being paid for spots in this
section are IS to 1871. Buyers are eager
at that. Mostly exporters buying They
realize the situation.
fair Mills are fighting hard TO bully
cheap basis cotton"
Savannah: NO weakness spots here
Firmly held for fun prices Offerings
small
Spots advices to y. L. Carpenter &
Athens. Ga. Spots following decline.
but very little offering account small
receipts"
Augusta. Ga: Fair demand. spots
Raleigh. \. c: "Spbts in good de
mand; paving no attention to fiuctua-
tons In futures"
Anderson. $. c. 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 in sight. lust now It locks as
If the substitute suggested by Senator
Hoke Smith would be accepted This is
plan for regula ting 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 It is now certain the
Clarke bill will have to be modified or
eliminated The Smith amendment Of
fered in the Senate caucus as a substi-
tute and defeated accepts the New Or
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
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
inca except N mobile ana memphis OlS-
tricts, where some heavier rains fell.
Warmer in the western STATES
Texas temperatures: Longvlew. clou-
dy, Ga. rain yesterday; Temple cloudy,
Sc; FL Paso, clear, 60; Boonsville, clear
man, Weatherford, cloudy; Brownwood.
NaCogdoChes, cloudy, 81: I4ampassas,
clear, 60 Houston. cloudy, So; Waxa-
hachie, cloudy, Ga; Kemp, Arthur City,
pl = nd TaI "a oil YHV~
mis-. cloudy, 81, Denison, cloudy, light
rain Denton. cloudy. S. San Antonio
cloudy. e.. Texarkana, cloudy. Sc: Cliff.
ton, cloudy; Cleburne. cloudy, 81, Tyler
cloudy, 20, Comanche, cloudy, Sc, Mount
Pleasant. cloudy, II; Greenvile. cloudy
and cool; Waco. cloudy So: Oklahoma,
generally cloudy no rain. Temperatures,
go TO Ga 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 a remarkable way the totals
put forward by Secretary Hester in his
annual report on September /.
THE Bureau makes the total CON
sumption by Amerisan mills North and
South. including foreign cotton. for the
put the total at $500, 900 bales a differ
ence of 10000, or about one third of
per cent"
The next ginning report will be issued
al g "A. mh our time Thursday, October
,. and Will show cotton ginned to Sep
TENDER % and on same day al 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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