New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
MODERATE TRADING
IN PRINT CLOTHS
Prices Hold straightforward
for Deliveries for Last Five
Months of Year.

Fall River, Mass, July 1S.-Actual
trading in the print cloth market last
week was moderate. Prices generally
have held steady, and manufacturers
have turned down opportunities TO sell
,at existing prices in fairly large
.amount contracts TO extend through the
lend of the current year. The demand
has been for deliveries to extend
,through the last five months of the
year. For contracts TO cover this period
several buyers were willing to pay full
asking prices. These prices were not
ssatisfactory, although there were some
manufacturers who agreed TO slight
concessions in prices or goods for near
sby delivery. Their willingness to do
this was due % the desire to keep their
PRODUCTION moving rather than to stock
M and take a chance of prices going
lower.
With cotton costing eight cents a
found, manufacturers say that there IS
no margin of profit between the cost
of cotton and the selling values of
cloth. Cotton in its recent decline did
rot reach eight cents, and il is now
we'll above nine cents pound. Besides
that expectation as reason for de-
clining to sell long contracts, manu-
facturers have hopes that cotton goods
Will 20 nlEneI. DuSlIeSS III CIOtHS SNiL-
able for printers uses is very quiet
lust now, and indications are that 1t
will remain so till the situation in dye
stuffs improves. Printers are sOrely
III need of dyes, and this condition is
causing considerable annoyance to
ayers and bleachers. There is a great
need for cotton textiles other than the
styles which are manufactured by the
New England mills. Some mills in
Rhode Island have done a very good
business in other textiles, which are be-
ing shipped abroad for the warning ma
tions, and the profits which are being
made are very satisfactory.
Some buyers have accumulations on
hand which they find they cannot move
easily, and on this account factors do
not care to come into the open market
and purchase while so much uncer-
tainty exists. Manufacturers hope TO
see buyers forced into the market, and
il would be a happy event to active
bidders for goods.
Fine goods manufacturers continue
to have more satisfactory business than
manufacturers Of goods of print cloth
yarns. There is steady but moderate
demand for various styles of fine goods,
and il is known that some mills making
fine goods have done a very comfortable
business ana pIoulS nave Deeu larry
good The New Bedford mills are do
ing we'll, although few mills are do
ing a voluminous business and making
abnormally large profits. Provided
they can cover on cotton at satisfac-
tory figures, fine goods manufacturers
will have little trouble in disposing of
their goods. There are some buyers
who are anxious to accept business
from mills for the remainder of the
year
In the market for print cloths the
narrow goods situation is very quiet.
The demand which has been met has
been for wide and medium wide goods.
There was some trading in twills,
sateens and other constructions. The
total sales for the week arc estimated
at l25,000 pieces, of which about $4,000
pieces are spots. Some of the selling
consisted of odd counts. On some
lines slight concessions averaging about
a sixteenth of cent were made.
The quotations: 2S-inch, 64x64, 3bc,
nominal; 2S-inch, 64x6O, &c, nominal !;
27-inch, 64x60. PIC, nominal; 27-inch,
56x56, 2l9c; 27-inch, 56x52, 22sc; SSH
inch, 64x64, &c; 39-inch, 6Sx72, 4%c.