The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-20
Phenomenal Sales

Sales in my line have increased thls year by bounds in southern territory, said c. H. Brandon of Boston, who was registered yesterday at the Hotel En- pire
 q represent a great New York con- cern. Park & Tilford. importers and manufacturers of high grade drugs candies, perfumeries and cigars, ana for the past few years have oeeh III charge of southern sales. Business mas steadily increased here during this time and this year, notwithstanding the hard times talk, which began With the war the increase in business In thls section has broken all records There has been an increase of 186 per cent during the past year in our southern candy sales alone. Candy sales TOT last wear reached a total of si,75o,Ooo end our total business in the United States reached maximum or szz'- o0o,0
 .oThe south is rich field for our lines. and it will be necessary shortly to establish a branch in this sectiof- If my wishes are carried out Birmihs- ham will be selected for this purpose In my opinion this city shows greater nro.rise than any other and it is cer- trally located Birmingham is well thought of in the east and its name is constantly on the tongue or those interested in large business affairs
 Interesting Facts About Cotton
 .swhen there was much talk last win ter about reducing the cotton acreage It was believed that the south would not raise more than s,oOo.OOOO bales in 1915, but when the price of the staple began to advance the reduction In acreage seemed less annealine." said a local statistician. This years crop will be about 12,oooooo bales: at any rate, that is how 1t looks now. But such crop will not be too large.
 "The New York Jonrnal of Commerce says editorially: Considering the blow which the cotton industry and trade re- ceived just as last years crop was com I ing to maturity, the situation at the end of April can be regarded as quite com fortable During that month the con sumption of cotton in manufacturing i'll this country was greater by about l4'o0 bales than in the same month last year being 5lS610 bales compared with 4s9,e46 The cotton on hand in manufacturing es- establishments and warehouses was con- 1 sideraby larger and the quantity ex- ported was very much greater in spite oi the fact that none is recorded as reach | ing Germany. The amount sent to the United Kingdom was 37s,s2s bales against 147.29s in April last year: to France GA, 6ot against 25,O1s; to Italy 55,956 against S2, 66s, and to all other countries 172,574 against 75, 14o This makes the total export for the month SIP cos bales compared with S,22s in April last year. although then 11S,19S bales went to Germany while none went last month.
 "'At the same time we imported more cotton last month than in April last year 5447a bales against 32,s17. Most of this came from Egypt because it is long fine fibre of value for mixing with domes- tic cotton for some kinds of goods An other cheering sign has been the price which has ranged above g cents a pound while last fall, far as there was any market price it did not exceed cents That was the basis on which it was pro- posed to advance loans on warehouse cer- tificates. scheme which proved not tc be necessary
 Nine cents is by no means a very re- munerative price, but considering the large crop of last year 1t is hardly below normal and, in view of the terrible dis turbances of the early months of the market year for cotton. it may be consid. cred fortunate. For the nine months be- ginning with September and ending witt April the export proved to be 1881. .62l bales compared with S,ss42ss for the cor responding period year before, though the quantity sent to Germany declined from 2'Ssi,slo to 242ssi or more than twice as much as the difference '
 WE'VE MADE IT. HARRY