The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-15
" ROUND The TICKER"


me weather map is again very ia
yorable. practically no rain being in
| dicated in the belt. A few showers
| fell on the gulf coast and on the At
| lantic coast. Temperatures are very
high, night temperatures over the belt
| ranging from ~ to rs degrees,
The marine strike looks worse than
ever, an increased number of men and
| lines being affected. The general be-
| lief is, however, that the strike will
not be allowed to go very much fur
| Their.
New York reports a higher and mod
erately active dry goods market
The census report says that lnters
consumed in June this year in this
country We're 1907 bales VS.. 13,4S4 in
May and 102,49 in June last year, maxi
| ing the total cN"r''''''>''on for June of
"a bales against sol, 4S2 in May and
6lS,3l9 IN Juno % "",t year For the
cotton alone is 5,257,726 bales VS..
| 6,025,032 during the same period last
year. Active spindles during June
numbered 33, 943 4O5 VS.. 33,556.O11 in
May and 1865, 2S5 in June of last year.
end of June 1,364,027 bales VS. 1895, s75
at the end of May and 1.673,129 at the
end of June last year. This is the one
really bullish item in the report.
Western belt favorable, Louisiana
fair tonight. part cloudy tomorrow.
morrow; Oklahoma, East and West
Texas fair.
Local thundershowers and no change
in temperature is the forecast for
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi Ac-
cording to the way some people think
this is favorable, for it will stave, off
complaints of drouth.
Ellis, Tex. wires that with ten more
days of good weather crops should be
H., Apn ch N Iat md IN11ia
is In the biggest cotton county of the
biggest cotton state
Greenville. S. c. wires crop reports
are improving.
Price changes in grain were fire.
uuent and coveredo wide enough
range to suit interests on both sides OF
the market yesterday. December corn
and all futures of oats after advancing
to the highest prices of the season and
the best known for December corn at
any time, had break. Corn traders
explaining the break, attributed 1t to
oats and rye, the good croD, reports.
rains in the west and southwest and
large sales of December corn by I'D
dixie. who was one of the largest buy
ers last week The crowd got long on
the bulge and sold out. The techfli-
cal position was such that the huying
support for p time was Door and with
n reduced short interest as result
of the recent steady advance, values
were easily depressed. There are p
n,,nher of large local traders who are
hullish on oats and hearish in Decem-
her corn on crop prospects. They nave
taken profits on their long oats for tho
present and are selling December corn
on huloes Some traders who are bull
ish and took profits IN both corn end
oats on the early advance vesterd'"
sNid after the closn that had heon hreak
enough and that with any GOOD buying
values would ro hirher Oats were do
cidedlv stronger as shorts wore good
huvers n few Of tho lNcal traders said
Yesterday YVES high day for the sea-
son on al' grains.
Grain forecast. fair tonight and
W~dnesdov wNr''N".
Hog sales at go" on steadv.
TrorS noetlv IN cents tower m rood
o~d ohoice rc~-' others IN to p cNnts
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