Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
s. COTTON GOSSIP

Sterling S Beardsley says he believes
the commercial crop will be 1880, 900
bales or thereabouts
Talladega, Ala, wires: Country gins
running one day per week and our town
gins ginning five and six bales a day
against forty to fifty bales a day two
weeks ago"
"A majority OF the trade seems to
think that rains which fell during Sep
TENDER were harmful, especially in Tex
as and oklahoma" remarked Charles
Crutchfeld. but similar ideas prevailed
in 1900, when conditions were practically
the same and the yield turned out to be
the largest Texas ever raised up to that
time"
1t is reported that the estimate of
McFadden on this years crop is 49,
100000 bales,
Harry l., Goss, Of Heineken & Vogel-
sang, has applied for membership in the
New York Cotton Exchange.
c. IT, Crismann & Co. of Memphis,
estimates the crop at Il ,5S5 coo bales, as
100000; Florida, $4,000; Georgia, 800, -
600; Louisiana, 425 900 Mississippi,
$50. 900. South Carolina, l,45O, 900
North Carolina, 1850 900; Texas, 4,100,-
zoe; Tennessee, 400, 900; oklahoma, $50,
600; other States, $4,000.
Hause & Thompson, of Greensboro, N.
c., estimate the crop at l4,S00, goo bales,
including interS They do not append
the usual estimates by States for the
reason that the figures are made up with
reference to divisions of the belt ar
ranged in accordance with varying
weather conditions, which, of course, do
not coincide remotely with the State
lines.
Floyd Willis, of Jackson, Miss. figures
II differently from the rest. of the guess
ers. one hundred and seventy pounds
per acre on say 36, 422, 900 acres would
give 1884, 900 bales of 500 pounds net,
with an addition Of $4,000 bales. linters
and repacks,, giving crop of less than
100000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. t4-Hayward
Clark: The weather map shows
cloudy in Arkansas. Tennessee, Texas
and oklahoma; generally fair over the
rest of the belt; no precipitation. lndi
cations are for a rapid rise in tempera
lures to summer level in Texas.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says; e. Some shrinkRge in the esti-
mate OF the crop of the eastern States
many reports of gins running on short
time and some reports of gins having
closed down for the season, together
with some direct evidence showing that
serviceable cotton has not fully met the
decline in the futures market, sustained
bullish sentiment yesterday, but the
market was inclined to be duh and the
talent was in no humor to start any
thing big.
THE ultimate weakness of the bear
position lies in the fact that almost
every body is convinced that the net
reserves as of August 81. 1918, will be
smaller than were the net reserves as
of August 81, 1912. The immediate
strength of the bear position lies in the
fact that the true issue of the market is
obvious, and everybody Is wise to It,
A bullish Census Bureau report on DC
tober consumption is looked for to-day
Because of good weather and high prices
ginning returns to November IA are eX
pected to prove large. Because of the
low average spinning quality of the
crop, because Of lighter bales than last
year and because Of early general kill
ing frosts, consumers are expected tC
become more active competitors for the
purchase of the actual in the not dis
tant future