Arizona republican., 1921-01-05
PROTESI AGAINST
 INFLATED REPORT IF
 PIMA COTTON CROP

Vigorous protests from local or ganizations have been filed with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce against an inflated estimate of the Pima cotton crop of the Southwest alleged to have been released by that organization, which estimate local or ganizations feel will have a "bearish or depressing effect on the market if allowed to stand uncontested.
 A telegram was received yesterday from a mill man in Massachusetts stating that the chamber of commerce of Los Angeles estimated the Pima cotton crop of the Southwest at 1S9, GOO bales. This impression was i'm mediately corrected by the local as- sociation and the Arizona American Egyptian Cotton Growers Association and the Phoenix Chamber of Com merce immediately wired protests tC Los Angeles.
 The association telegram, sent by tn. president, W. s. Stevens, was a: follows:
 "Los Angeles Chamber of Com meree,
 Los Angeles, California. 'Your estimate of Pima cotton
 crop of 5000 haIes absurd and I 1 75,00o bales, Imperial valley 5000, Yuma 4,oo0, San Joaquin 7,50o, other districts 5000, total 96,500. "You should give wide publicity to a correction of this estimate as it is doing great aamage to the | market in the New England mill | districts. Suggest that you be
 very careful in future in permit
 ting such bearish propaganda to get out of your office"
 The chamber of commerce wired
 Cotton association here advises | that report issued from your Of
 flee to mill and manufacturing district gives cotton crop at double
 actual figures. This will reflect
 on market. Already seriously af-
 feeted. Please have statement
 issued giving actual situation and
 figures"
 ITO both these telegrams the To Angeles chamber replied with denial that such figures had been issued, said the publicity director for the asso citation, ''yet the Daily News Recor of New York of December 28 carrie a Los Angeles story cated the previou day, quoting the Los Angeles Cham Der of Commerce as estimating tn cotton crop from the territory con tiguous to that city at 377,25O balel It seems probable that the Eastern mi men figured that half of this wa Pima, thus arriving at the estimate ( double our actual production.
 Tt is quite impossible to entirel nullify the damage oone by any i'm pression that we have double ou actual production Of cotton, but tn 1 association is doing everything pos sible to correct the erroneous impres sion that has gotten out, and thu protect the market as much as possibl
 "The government crop estimate is sued yesterday corroborates the assC citation estimate in a striking manne We have contended for months ths the total yield of Pima cotton woul be less than one hundred thousau bales. and our latest estimate of 96 900 bales takes into account u amount that will not be probabl ! picked.
 The estimate issued yesterday l l.. NJ. Harrison, the government as ricultural statistician here, Shows total probable Pima crop of S3.2i bales for Arizona and the Californ
 statistician. E. E. Kaufman. estimat, the total Pima in California at Is ,0i . .. bales. a total for the Southwest 1O1,200 bales produced. which talli | very closely with our estimate"