The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-26

New York middling cotton. .."....''l'lo 2b inch bex44 10.55 ............a o.o2" 27 inch e4xeo 7.soo ............. SS'77s 3sis-inch 60x4s 6.25 ...........'. g217S ao 3o ,2 l2 ioh eaX60 535 ......... 11.25 SS "a men eex9 e69S 37s . 12.6S7 399 ioh 9Sx76 4s5 ...... 13.625 9s inoh so~s0 4 0O ,....... 14.625 '' -''''A 'V Tobacco Cloths .oo @VAiA Sheetings
 SSee inoh sSxs0 10O ...... 12.s75 S6 inch 4sx4S 300 ..........''' iSS'yYee 37 inch 4SX4S 400 ...........'. .so '' Twilis ., ss inch esx7e 400 ............. 16.7S on ,,., o,s 1e7os S0 inor . SS ,... 1475 37 finch 2.15 ............. ......''' 'ooe 37 inch 3.9b .......''.'.' A''-'
 Sateens
 39 inch 64x1o4 4.2o ........... ass7S aassss5e l3 inch 72x120 3.35 ............. 25.Sfo s-ounces,s F. duck, Grade A...... 2a'5 S-ounce army duck ............... 2s.f
 Finished Goods , Standard, 64x6O percale. lghts... 15.0 Standard, soxso percale, lghts...' as.o andard ssandard, 5SS N 90 work % shirt chambray lsS Standard fine chambray :...:..;. 1e.o 27-inch, eastern standard staple
 gingham da.c White flannel standard ......... 175 S'ehas'a ciass Oranoeu D'eaenea .. 1s47b
 s Class B '. '..'....'........... "N D'e'' 1875 s-ounce Canton flannel, eastern. ;. PHO 10-4 bleached wide shooting. Class .,,
 1o-4 bleached wide shooting. Class
 Indicates nominal.
 Average cotton goods price. 1SOS
 The amount of business coming to hand in the Philadelphia cotton yarn market is too small to enable an ob- server to form an Idea of how con sumers view the latest price ad- vances. The market was quiet be- fore these advances were made. It Is probably not any more so now. It Is pointed out by some that if there were any considerable stocks of yarn left in sellers hands. some of them would probably have come out in of | ferings made at prices slightly under the new hig>. quotations. No reports indicating sucn offerings have been heard of except in scattered cases among the southern carded knitting yarns.
 much stiffer advance than the one announced last Monday would prob ably/ not excite much opposition among the majority of yarn users, as he believes they are adequately cov- cred with yarns, as a general thing, TOT tno HeAI three InOnlnS. IneTeIOTe, according to his view. the yarn con- sumers likely to be affected by the latest price increases are chiefly those who are buying small addi- tional lots for prompt or early use, averaging them in with purchases
 made some time ago on much lower price basis.
 The opinion is held by the same | factor that the majority of the south ern spinners are covered with all the cotton they will need until the end of June and their bookings of yarn or ders are believed to call for produc- l ton through the next three months. If this idea of the average spinner's position is approximately correct, 1t Is indicated that yarn orders already placed will probably consume all of the relatively low-priced cotton owned by the mills.
 It is explained that this means that new business, taken from now on, will be expected by the spnners to move at prices fully covering cotton bought now for deliveries to the mills from July l, onward The point is made in this connection that the | chances that temporary setbacks may develop in cotton quotations during planting ard the early part of the