Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-11
COTTON GOSSIP

NEW YORK. April HI. NJ. Ander-
son: old positions were under pres
sure al the opening of the market, Ne"
crops showed little or no changes.
Rocky Mohr sold 10000 bales of July
at lie TO Dick Bros.
7 Liverpool cables: american forward
66,9s7 bales. Total 74.434 bales. Amer
lean decrease 40, $50 bales"
After the call. Bashford, McEnanay,
Parrott, Wilson, Martin, McFadden, wa
ters and Orvis were the leading buyers.
The selling was attributed mainly to
Cassard. Finn, Rosenberg, Schley, Roth
schild, Guild, Shants and Riordan.
Orvis was credited with buying 5000
bales Of July on the call The selling
was scattered, but sentiment was bear
ish. The ring sold.
Traders who liquidated so freely yes
terday were more than anxious to buy
their cotton back to-day, but offerings
were light. Some say the heavy seillns
yesterday was longs taking proht Win
the intention of replacing their lines al
| liberal concessions.
Liverpool cables: American middlng
fair 7.5ld, good middling lid, middling
| 6.95d, low middling 6.1yd, good ordinary
6.F5d, ordinary slid.
! The New York journal of Commerce
says IN the Brazos Valley nearly ali
4 the cotton is planted and half Of IL Is
/ up 10 good stand and planting Is pc
/ ing pushed vigorously. BrownWood'
| Tex, reports that Texas has an eAcel-
| lent stand.
The levee situation at Beulah. Miss,
l20 miles north of New Orleans, re
ported critical and dixie may fan az
any time. The Angola leNee also ad-
mitted 10 be in bad shape. a break al
Beulah would flood a vast section OF cot
ton and sugar country. Railroads oper-
aung west from Memphis reported en-
tirely out OF commission as result
of Wash-Outs.
Port receipts are to-day estimated at
%. 900 bales. compared with 30.4S4 last
week and 1898 bales for the correoo
spending week last year, against 4zVes
bales for the same week the year before.
Following arc II a. m bids May
12O4. July l2,02. October 1l.53, Janu-
airy ll.5S .F
NEW ORLEANS. April 11.-Hayward
& Clark; The weather map shows fair
cloudy over Eastern half; no rains in
Western or Central belt. Generai
showers in Alabama and Atantlcs.
Mostly light, except heavier rain ~
fair and clear weather over the entire
belt. with promise Of good weather Tor
several days
The revision committee of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange made tne
following changes in the color ana az
ferenCes.
Low ordinary to good ordinary. of
color. 5-l6c of. was Lice OF; spotteu
o C off, was isc off; strict good ordinary
to fair. off color. Lice off, was l-l6c on
| spotted lsc off, was isc OF, low Ordinary
To strict good ordinary, light tinged, sc
off. was llc off; tinged, sc on, was fsc
off; low middling TO fair, light tinGed,
Csc Off. was &c OFF; tinged, l2c on was
BE- off; low ordinary 10 strict low mia
ding, light stained, &c on, was sc on
stained age off, was lc Oft, middling ~
fair, light stained &c of, was esc on
stained lisc off, was lc off.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says a grade difference revision
strengthened the New Orleans contract
market yesterday and the flood situa-
fair weather was promised in the West,
and news of "a fall i'm the Mississippi
| River of siN-tenths Of foot az one OF
the crevasses ON the Arkansas line was
made TO read as applying 10 Memphis,
and the talent taking advantage Of a
spot aecline Of 1915 Of cent at Dallas,
and Of sluggish &nOt markets elsewhere
sold the contract market on TO the
i'm the Mississippi are not as rule, fol
lowed closely by full crops in the river
states. Nevertheless. the effect Of the
Mississippi Valley overflows on the
South's crop as d whole, now that the
annual outturn runs well above the
~. 900 600 bale mark, Is not very appar-
ent since at the outside they made a
difference on the total OF only l0O,0 600 o.
200 600 bales. For this reason cOnstitu-
tional bulls do not depend ON foods and
overtlows TO make out a case for them
at the present time the bullish cause
Is hacked by the belief that the crop
Of 1925 viii pan out less than bearish
expectations by between a quarter ano
q half-mililou bales: by the belief that
fresh demand for the actual in impor-
tant volume VIII be i'm evidence before
very long .s "a result ~ continued mill
activity uad shrinking raw cotton sup
ply abroad, by the belief that too much
rain and cold weather over most Of the
pelt. and dry weather when rains were
needed over small portion OF the West
have combined 10 make the new CruI
start laIe one in place Of an early one
on the average.
Following are 10 a. m. bids. May
1851; July, 80; october, 11.J9; Jan
uary ll.6l.
Estimated receipts FOR Saturday.
1918. 49,. 1872
New Orleans ......... - 100 To- 2 900 a.atl