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Show REDUCTION IN COTTONS Deep Cuts Have Been Made -bj New England Mill Agents. NEW TORK, Dec 7 Sweeping re (Suctions in dotnestlo cotton goods, largely necessitated by the decline In the raw product, are reported to have been made here by the agents of several sev-eral great New England mills. The, cuts are likely to affect many grades. It Is said, but the most noteworthy so far made are In bleached sheetings and certain grades of print goods. In sheetings the agents of many large mills have reduced quotations from to 1 cent" a yard, with corresponding corre-sponding discbunts based on the quantities quan-tities purchased. The cuts reported in standard print cloths and shirtings average about one-half cent a yard. Unbleached cottons and gray goods have not thus far been affected. ' Worth street, the center of the dry goods commission business, is filled, with rumors of expected cuts by well-known well-known cotton commission-houses to meet the reductions made by their competitors. |