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Show COTTON MARKET IS STRONGAND ACTIVE General Covering by Shorts the Feature of the Past Week in New Vork. By Leaaeid Wire to The Tribune. SEW VORK Sept. 3. The cotton market, mar-ket, has Ehown considerable actlvitv and strength of an unexpected character throughout the week. This has been particularly par-ticularly the feature of trade during the last two days. Covering of shorts has ben general, with a former leading southern bear operator covering a large line and doubling up on the bull side on the circulation of sensational crop damagn reports. This buying. In connection con-nection with renewed activity Ty some of the former leading local bull operators, has been the feature of the strength the market has shown, with the better demand and larsrer volume of business reported re-ported In spot cotton at Liverpool. From the extreme low levels of early !n the week prices are up 25 to 46 points for the general option list, and about. 25 to 30 points from last Saturday's closing, clos-ing, with the highest point reached during the forenoon yesterday. The New Orleans Or-leans and Liverpool markets have fluctuated In a similar manner and prices for spot. oottOO jn the principal southern south-ern markets have advanced about $1.23 per bale In sympathy. The movement of the crop as figured by the New Orleans cotton exchange shows that over 197,!lOo bales came Into sight this week, against 122,573 for this week last year, and 184,000 In 1909 and 147, "00 In 1908. Total stocks now at. the Interior towns show nn Increase from September 1 of 21,073 ba.les, against 7882 last year. This authority figures out a decrease In the total world's visible supply sup-ply of nil kinds for the week of 20,271 bales, a-galnst a decrease of fio.lSl for this we-ek la-st year, and makes the present pres-ent total visible supply of all kinds 1.57",-fi7 1.57",-fi7 bales, against 1,418.998 last year, of Which S42.967 bales are American cotton, cot-ton, against 829,238 last week and 7ti7.998 last year. The present total supply of American cotton at Liverpool of only 183.000 bales Is the smallest for some years past, and explains the sharp advance In the price of middling cotton and September contracts con-tracts In that market during the last week. These sto.-ks will soon be heavily Increased from the shipments from our southern ports of over 1K0.O0" bales during dur-ing the Inst two weeks, most of which are due to arrive between now and the next ten days. Closing Stock List. Sales If . L jCl5 Allls-Chalmers pfd ! 1 17 Amalg Copper 7,-00 Mi 551 r,r,j American Agi i 200. 52 62 o- Amer Beet Sugar .. 4,800 B8 524 53i American Can HOOI 10 93 9f Am Car ft Foundry. 40" 48 48 4 Amor Cotton oil .. TOO 51J 614 5H Amer H !fc It pfd 2" Am Ice Securities 17i American Linseed 81 Amor Locomotive . 300 86 34i 34 Am Smelt & Rcf'g . 8,700 GSi 674 6'i pr ferred 1041 Am Steel Foundries 2SJ Am Sugar Refining.. 1.200 1 l'.R 1 MJ 115 AmOr Tel & Tel 800 1S4 1841 1841 Am Tobacco pfd ... 2001 9241 92 92i American Woolen I .... 90 Anaconda Min Co.. 300 84i 88 331 AtohiBOn 3.400)1028 102 102i preferred lOli Atlantic C Line 100181 121 12"4 Baltimore & Ohio... 4,300( 96 Mi 841 Bethleham Steel ... soo, :n 284 294 Brooklyn R Tr...... 6,700( 78 72i 738 Camulian Pacific ... IT S"0'221J 21 2isi Central Leather 500 23 'Hi 38 preferred 100 95 95 94 i Central of N J 260 Chesapeake Ohio.. 1.500 T0J 694 69J Chicago &. Alton 25 Chi ("it Western 81.000 18 17 J 174 preferred 600 364 364 364 Chi & Nor Western - 100140 ho 1404 Chi. MM ft St. Paul.. 7,6001131111 1114 C. ' ' C ft St. Louis 55 Colo Kuc & Iron 1 400 28 27J 27 Colo & Southern....!..'.. 45 Con Gas 1,400 1334 132 132 Corn Products T"0 L2j L3 124 Delaware & Hudson.1 IGOjt D ft R 0 I.6O0 321 224 22 preferred 300 44 46 464 ristlllc-6' Securities. 800 304 30 SO Erie 3.600 25 284 2S 1st preferred ! S"0! 18', 48 4SB 2nd preferred 1"0 40 40 I 89 General EJleetrlc 3001151 160)160 Gt Northern pfd ... 4,000121 I20il30i do Ore Ctfs 300 47 47 47 Illinois t -niral 1364 lnterhor-Met I 50" 111 14414i preferred -, I 1.000 424 41J 4ii inter Harvester 1,000 1061 104j 1041 Inter-Marine pfd I I4fi Internet 1 Paper ....I TOO 94 9 9 mtemat'l Pump 1 304 Iowa Central 100 !' lot 184 K C Southern 30" 2T4 27J 27J preferred 69 Ladcde Gas 1034 Louisville ft Nash... 1.8001405140 1405 Minn A St. louis (,... 42 AL St. P ft S Ste. AL 200 1294129 1284 Mo, Kan ft Tes 1,400 38 28J 2SJ preferred .... 63 Mo Pacific 5.700 3r,, 354 861 National Hlscuit 100 1374 1274 1284 National Iead .... 600 49 1 4S4 is N Rya of Ms 2d pfd I . . I 881 N V Contra! 2.7"'' 102 l"-.'i 1031 N v. On4 o W 300 3' ' :yj '. :;85 Norfolk & Western..! 700 1001 100 1004 North American .. ....(..., 67 Northern Pacific ... 11,6001141 114 114 I -n. lflo alji 1 4 00 1 I 38 28 j Pennsylvania 7,800 120 11 9 120 People's "iis , 100 1081 1081 P, C 1 ' it St . Louis. . 100 08 !:; I 914 Pittsburg Coal I I'Odl is 18 175 Pressed steel Car... ioo 98 398 294 Pullman Pol Car....' 200)166 166 1544 Rv st. e Spring ; 800 :" 80 80 Reading I 98.0001891 1381 188 Republic Steel I 8,200 25 24 S3 preferred 1 s06 89 894 88 Rot k bland c 1 1.700 24i 24 24 preferred 9001 48 47 464 St. I, & 8 F 2d pfd .1 j 40 si. L Southwestern. 194 preferred 1 ". es Slot,s Shef St ft Ir.. .... .... 37 Southern Pacific ... 9,800 1071 1081 1061 Southern Railway ... 2,600 26 86 361 preferred I iftr,l 601 681 861 Tenn Copper ... 1 5nn rt?j 3!?J Texas ft Pacific ...I 300 281 234 23 T. St L ft West .. I (00 1 T i I 1 7 164 preferred 100 395' 39 394 Union Pacific .... 1 74,800 166 1165 1658 preferred I 20ol n 91 611 r s Realty tool 67 1 mt I 1 ' s Rubber I 60n :;t I ."64 361 preferred ! 1,000 II4 11 4 ' 1148 rtah copper .......1 :.3".. -r; -n; it; Vn Cur Chemical 90n .'.-j w: :, abash ' s''0; ill 13 121 preferred 600 -j8 I 27 2j Western Maryland .. 1,200 544 62 ! 681 Westincholifs Elec.l 400 88 ' "ij fi4j Western Union I i"oi T4JI 74 T14 Wheeling ft L Erie. I IOO Zl 2 U Li 1 dp 1 1 Vi 1 Hey ! 6.S00 1 16Sj l.'.-l ir.44 Total sales for the day. 405,600 shure |
