The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-12
ROUND THE TICKER
Cotton.

GObbOMs
New Orleans. Galveston clears ll,OOQ
bales, Savannah -. 600, Pacific coast
10000 total Of $4,000 bales 50 far today.
-Kofler.
New Orleans.-Spots here reported
steady and about unchanged. Good de-
mand for white cotton but weather
cloudy, unfavorably for CHASING
washington.-Sen Lodge has pre-
scented In senate compromise reserva-
| ton to article 10 Of the league OF ma;
| tons coyenant.-WollmAn.
New Orieans.-The market is rising
in the unconfirmed rumOr that the
peace treaty has been ratified.-S' 4 u.
Rainfall at Greenwood, Miss. last
night was ais.
New orleans-Sentimen getting more
bullish. especially new crop; while 40
not advise buv on advance, think snort
/ sale still unwise.-White 20 Cotter q
/ Turner.
New York-Selling Of implanted crops
short at current discounts under March
Of eight to nine cents per pound does
not appeal to the rank and file. BE.
sides many people feel that prices OF
| raw cotton are not so inflated as those
OF cotton goods. Meantime the mills pay
the current proices for cotton Willingly
even though they are the highest for
/
down in a sort of price canyon and 10
many they look so low that they are
disposed to cover shorts or go long
Journal of Commerce.
New York-Weather conditions are
somewhat improved, more seasonable
temperatures prevailing. Reports COM
ing to hand indicate an increase OF at
least 10 per cent in acreage, Watch
weather conditions closely.-JunE TO
McFall.
Gwathmey, New York, wires: Looks
to us new crops buy on dips"
New orleans-Spot people report
some spasmodic demand for lower
| grades, proba bly, for export which may
be the first sign Of beneficial effect OF
the advance on exchange rates.-kot-
Ter.
New York-Weakness of foreign ex-
change caused some selling. but traders
buying on theory rains bring Wall street
buying Hubbard to Reese.
New Orleans-vernon Davis wires
from Jackson, Miss. Heavy genera
rains yesterday and last night in this
territory and they mean curtailed acre
age and a bad and later start, ever
without further rain, for tAis will put
up to the first of April With nothing
done. Shepard & Gluck
New York-National GinnerS' associa
ton estimates domestic consumption
for February at 521 900 bales agains
591, 900 in January and $4,000 February
last year.
Grain. y
ChicagoABlizzard in Chicago, al
wire service crippled very badly.
Chicago-United State Grain corpora
ton has purchased this week abou
1850 barrels OF flour at prices averag
ing $10.68 Baltimore basis, and 500
Pacific coast basis.
Chicago-The early commission sell
ing is beginning to tell, Support doe
not improve in corn There is scat
tered commission demand in oats a
S3c. Undertone both markets easy
Babcock to Clark & Co.
Forecast-All grain states: Fair to
, | night, Saturday and Sunday; rlsin
temperatures Saturday.
New York-Ocean rates on foodstuff
! from the United States to Great Britai
! have been raised As to rs cents per 10
J pounds
, "hicago-American corn at Liverpool
is pence lower, at 20 shillings
New York wires: "All indications S
far point to much slower export de
| mand."
Chicago-Corn weakening on rain re
lief to winter wheat and talk of a goo
? | wheat condition in Nebraska. Export
! | news also a shade bearish. More tai
: | that the oats export demand may
; | practically through. Selling OF corn hs
been persistent.-Wild to s. & G,
Memphis receipts: Corn II, oats 81
hay 20 and alfalfa meal Is cars.
= Hog receipts; Chicago $4,000, Oman
z, 1900, Kansas City 1000, Sioux Cit
!; 1850, ST. Joseph 5000, St Louis 500
y Ghicago-Receipts: Wheat 22,00
v corn $4,000, oats ll2,Q00. shipments
?, Wheat $4,000, corn 10000, oats 1890
. St. Louis--Receipts; Wheat $500
:. corn 1872, 900, oats $4,000. Shipments
J. Wheat $4,000 corn 1876, 900, oats 1896
n Stocks.
a New York.-Wabash and Illinois Ger
I trail have decided to accept section q
!, of the Cummins law.
!; New York--The market last few da.
J; | has been much like a 20-Story buildiI
l, en- a 10-story foundation. 1t may
brought to the attention of the sire
that it Isl idle to argue that immediate
: after Monday there will be easy none
); possibility. AS for gold imports Il
subject has been greatly overplay'
4 speculatively.
70 New York--A very great amount
money is being tied up today at II
customhouse in the office of the CO
n lector of internal reveue in the shal
"a of certified checks for payment of il
y come tax which the delay in handlir
I, will probably not allow to get back in
n the banks before next week. This COZ
ID dition emphasizes the necessity +
x keeping the stock market for the ne
3, few days under strict control.-Mors