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14 D II KARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 1913. . SUNDAY, DECEMBER * 1L i! 8 1 J 1 hews of Finance, Industry, Crops and Commerce Tit EXPECTS E! German Potash Trust Hopelessly Smashed DFI4.2SO.ODO' 1 TYcmmunt’s Attempt, to Monopolize World’s Fertilizer Supply Fails Completely. BE OPTIMISTIC Markets Quiet Awaiting Federal Figures—Private Guesses In cline to Higher Level. GINNING PROGRESSES FAST Out-turn of 12,000,000 Bales at End of November Is Con census of Opinion. MEMPHIS. Dec. «. -Comparative* dullnww. which usually characterizes trading In the cotton market Juat be fore the Government Issues lt« qua nti rative estimate of yield, has prevailed during the week. To make the dull ness more marked, there has been discussion of what the ginning re port, due Monday at the opening, will show as having been turned out to the close of November. Several pri vate reports have been issued and their usual accuracy has caused them to be given attention. Using the Information contained therein In connection with that re ceived from other sources, there has been a crystallization of Ideas around 12,000,000 bales, or a little more as the amount ginned, compared with 11.KRR.000 bales by the same date last veer, which was 87.9 per rent of the total, and with 12.817,000 in 1911, which was 82.4 per cent of the total. For the latter half of November, gin ning has been heavy. If the census report comes in line with average ex pectations. the amount will be some thing over 1,600.000 bales, which would compare with 1,554,000 for the same time last season. , Such an increase would hardly be regarded as bearish, judging from the recent action of the speculative mar ket, as opinion leans decidedly to the view that progress in picking and ginning has been unusually rapid and the total will represent as high per centage of the entire crop last year, or higher. It is freely predicted that subsequent reports will show a big falling off and thus confirm bull ish ideas. Await Estimate of Yield. A few days after the census rep/frt on ginning the trade will receive the Government’s estimate of tl*e yield,* and much interest and importance at taches to it. This will come Decem ber 12 and will give the amount of growth expressed in bales of 500 pounds. As the commercial, or run ning. bales usually run about 3 to 4 per cent heavier, it will be necessary to reduce the official figures propor tionately and then make allowance for the tleterv and repacks. Last sea son linters were 602,000 bales, and this year they should be as much or more, as each year there is an increased proportion, because of improved ma chinery for separating the lint from the seed. It is generally felt that the Gov ernment estimate will point to a com mercial crop of 14,000,000 to 14.250.- 000 bales, and the market during the past week or so has seemingly been trying to adjust itself to this figure. The average of the numerous private guesses that have come to light is around the higher figure, and if there is official confirmation, the cotton world having learned that the Gov ernment experts have improved their I method of arriving at conclusions, t lie | probabilities are that bullish activ ity will l>e stimulated, unless tratio developments become much worse than now they seem to be. Crop Movement Falls Off. The movement of the crop during the past week has shown further falling off. Hulls attribute this to ex haustion of supplies and an unwill ingness to sell at prices offered, and bears blame it on the attitude «»f spinners as a result of their knowl edge that manufacturing activity w as to be Jessened. In the belt there has been an ab sence of pressure to sell the actual that seems significant. The holders have showed patience during the pe riod of small buying and refused to boeonie alarmed enough to slash prices, middling seemingly having been pegged at 13 cents at the larger centers. There has been some revival of demand during the past few days and a slight advance in quotations at many centers However, sales have not been indicative of a dispo sition on the part of spinners to buy freely, and it looks very much as if the spot people will be put to a test as to their ability to dictate the price for which the remnant will be sold. McAdoo Chides Banks For Curtailing Credit WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.— Following complaints from business men that banks were restricting credits on com mercial paper to meet expected pro visions of the new currency law. Secre tary McAdoo assured bankers the Gov ernment contemplated no regulations which would in any way interfere with ilie business of the country. The Secretary further stated the Treasury Department had large avail able resources, which it would not hesi tate to use to aid banks to comply w ith ! ihe law A letter from a note broker from Ohio alleged that large banks had ad vised their correspondents to “make I themselves just a« liquid as possible and • lay bo. in order to meet the require ments of the new bill.'' These banks said the note brokers have not been buying any paper since March and busi ness ' is at a standstill." Here's One.Man Made Richer by Income Tax NF'W YORK. Dec. 6.—Ftrtinge to.say. passage of the Income Tax law \* ill increase, and not decrease the income of at least one lucky person in this country. He is W 1> Morgan, a bank ratrder, of Hartford. Conn . who has prepared and patented a special form •' certificate to be used in the colic > on of interest coupons. * ’arg* number of hanks, itu-la/Hin: ■everal big institutions in this . JSSS 9 thern ’’ r 1 n r’a-’er - ■ f. r *-he ertifle*:, L. * ^tljnated that Mr Moigat • * small fortune. By BOERSIANER. CHICAGO, Dec 6.—-The potash monopoly Is hopelessly and helpless ly disintegrated. At a meeting of the German potash syndicate held in Merlin the other day monopolistic purposes were abandoned and meas ures adopted in an attempt to pre vent utter demoralization of the trade. This is the miserable end of false pretenses on the part of the Prus sian Government and of diplomatic hypocrisy. The antecedents should still be vivid 1n the minds of all who are interested in fertilization and in in ternational diplomacy. Some inde pendent potash mine owners had contracted to deliver a large amount of the commodity to American con sumers, chiefly to the VlrginJa- Oarolina Chemical Company and to another agricultural fertilizer con cern. The Prussian Government in tervened It pretended not to pro test against the price, but against the amount that was to be exported to one country "which endangered the world's supply.” So far as was then fand is yet) known, potash mines are confined to Germany and potash is a necessary ingredient in agricultural fertiliza tion. The .Prussians professed to be so licitous of the world’s welfare in that no country should be permitted to take out of Germany more of the essential ingredient than was abso lutely Imperative to its needs Pot ash was peculiarly precious. It must be jealously preserved. American contractors did not ac cept the Prussian Government's pro testations and insisted that the in- dependertf producers be permitted to fulfill their contracts. The matter finally received the attention of the Department of State In Washington, which instructed the American Am bassador to investigate the question Supplies Limitless. Investigation proved the Prussian Government was seven-tenths owner of the largest potash mine In Prus sia; that if was trying to effect a monopoly; that mines were being discovered in other parts of Ger many; that one newly discovered mine in Alpaca also contained enough potash alone to supply the world for a century. The discoveries were fiercely re sented not only by the Prussian, but by the Imperial Chancellery In Ber lin. The integrity and veracity of the American Ambassador were Im pugned with plausible Indignation. Tn a moment of confusion and ti midity in Washington the American representative in Germany was on the point of being recalled He prob ably had lost his post but for the courageous stand taken by a namt^r of Merlin correspondents of foreign newspapers who confirmed the Am bassador's findings. , The "prevention of a wasteful use of national resources” was in es sence an attempt to monopolize the industry in every respect—In limit ing output and in fixing prices. The Prussians thought to hold the uni verse by the tail. They went so far as to induce the Berlin office to try for a heavy duty on exports. Seventy Square Miles. Since then the deposits in Alsace have been further explored and have been shown to be enonno isljr great and rich. The field lias b*en proved by borings to extend to about 77 square miles of continuous deposits The first mine began production th*re last year and since then ten others have begun producing or have received allotments in the vndlcate. More recently deposits ! ive been found in Baden, between the Rhine and the Black Forest, evidently a coninuatlon of those In Aina -e. Mean while, new mine* have been opened up very rapidly by the older dis tricts around the Hartz Mountains. The first mines opened th< re lay in tho plains to the cast of ue moun tains; later on deposits were struck to the north and then to The south of them; and still later the district has been greatly extended '-ward the northwest into the Province of Han over and to the south into Thuringia. It is thus a case of embarrassment of riches with which the potash people have to deal. Propose Drastic Remedy. The Prussian “preventive” bill proposed a Draconic remedy for the excessive increase of mines; no new ones were to bo allowed to begin production during a period of twenty years. This proposal was naturally objected to by all parties Interested In undeveloped properties and among the objectors were several of the German States themselves, which have become interested in potash mines, or which hoped that discov eries of the valuable «nlts would be made within their borders. The Prussian bill was accordingly modified In its most essential fea tures by the Federal Council and as enacted it provided that all mines be gun up to a certain date should re ceive production quotas for Imme diate use, but after that date a period of five years should elapse, after get ting a quota, before the mine in question might begin production. The law also made it possible for existing mines to buy up the quo tas assigned to new ones and to pro duce the corresponding quantities at their old shafts. No mine was al lowed to sell its own product: all sales had to be made by a central selling agency. Thus, while the law did not specifically provide for a syndicate, it practically necessitated the continuation of the old syndicate. The price at which potlffh might be sold was also specifically stated in the law. with a provision for changes from time to time by a government board that has charge of the ad ministration of the law’. Result Unsatisfactory. The result of the law has been e.m- mlnently unsatisfactory. Instead of checking the establishment of new mines, it has proved a strong stimu lus to the exportation of undeveloped properties. This was only a natural result, inasmuch as the law guar anteed production quotas to all new comers and fixed prices far above the necessary costs of production, with a reasonable percenta** - " of »»rofit. The new mines, too, were sure to find ready buyers of their quotas, in case the latter should turn out to be too small to Justify them in erecting operating plants and exploiting their mines upon their own account. Now the leaders of the potash In dustry are complaining that the law merely placed a premium upon the organization of new potash companies and that demoralization has ensued. President of the Great Chicago Constitution Now Provides for Taxes With Which to Retire Them Serially. Costs Less to Make Than Buy Powder WASHINGTON, Dec 6 -Figures showing that the Government can save 20 to 50 per cent on contracts for army materials If it makes them itself were made public recently by Representative ny<ie Travenner, of Illinois The fig ures were obtained from the Fran Il ford arsenal, Philadelphia. On orders placed with the Frankford arsenal between July 1, 1912. and April 25. 1913, amounting to $1,900,064, the Government saved $979,841. On an order for $800,120 artillery am munition now being manufactured by private concerns, the Government could have saved $81,215 if it had given the order to the arsenal. The Government pays higher wages, works its men eight instead of nine and ten hours a duy, and pays for .fifteen days' annual leave of absence, seven na tional holidays and thirteen Saturday afternoons during the summer. Air. Travenner points out that if the manufacturing were to be done at the arsenal at Rock Island. 111., where the Government has a power plant in the Mississippi, an even greater saving could be made. Lumber Produced in 1909 Worth Billion WASHINGTON, Deo. 6 -Lumbet ranked third in value in I'nlted States products in 1909. the Census Bureau re ported to-dav There were 41.804 estab lishments in tho business, with a total capital of $1,182,330,552. They em ployed 797.825 persons, who received $367,863,055 in salaries and wages. The products totaled $1,160,644,628 In value. In addition lumber and its more elementary products to the value of $5,667,950 were reported by establish ments engaged primarily in the manu facture of other products, chiefly furni ture. refrigerators, fancy and paper boxes, and pianos, organs and mate rials. Sugar Trust Suits Total $29,000,000 NEW ORLEANS, Deo. 6 With fifteen I additional suits tiled in the United j States District Court, tho American ! Sugar Refining Company Is made de- 1 fondant in <ivil anti-trust prosecutions under the Sherman law for damages ap proximating $29,000. WW. The suits were tiled by Louisiana eane j growers, sugar dealers and manufactur ers. Alleging at the American Sugar Refin in S’ ( 'ninnunv ia •.» ers. lllegi Refining Corn par. has manipulated the detriment an is a monopoly ami the sugar mai ket to I financial loss of the Bay State to Enforce New Publicity Edict BOSTON, MASS., Dec 6. Quarterly statements showing the amounts paid to attorneys, legislative agents, news paper writers and advertising agen cies must be submitted to the Public Service Commission by all corporations under its jurisdictions. An order to this effect was adopted fld an executive session of the cominis- ' More than 150 corporations are af fected. Including all steam and elect trie railways, telephone and telegraph Oompa riles The order, effective from October i, was prompted by an investigation now being made b\ the commission of tire payment by the New Haven Railroad of n largo sum appearing under the caption, “Other expenses," in a recent statement of expenditures. Russia in Need of Cash Aud Is Applying Here Special Cable to The American. ST PETERSBURG, Dec. 6.—General weakness on tire St Petersburg Stock Exchange occasions must comment. It was stated here that tire Government Intends curtailing the credit of several banking houses accuse*! of having fa vored extensive speculation; hut the real cause is uneasiness due to unfavorable rumors concerning the recent visit of Premier Ivokowtsoff to Berlin and Paris. It seems his mission was not nearlv so successful as reported and the fact is that foreign markets are not in clined to open their pursestrings to Rus sia. It was stated that Kokowtsoff is mak ing overtures to a number of Ameri can banks for a loan which is required for tin extension of railways and the construction of new ones Raw Wool Now Free: Bond Hoods Released Washington. Dec 6.—Raw wool went on the free list Monday under the provisions of tho new tariff act. Wool held in bonded warehoused awaiting ad mu'sinn fret of duty in New York alone is estimated at $1,000,000. Philadelphia manufacturers withdrew’ more than 8.000.000 pounds of raw wohl from bonded warehouses this week, ac cording to estimates of customs house officials. Most of the wool came from New Zealand. England and Ireland. Be- Doe the withdrawals began it was stated the warehouses contained about 10,000.00J pounds. At Provider., o, 1.300,00b pounds of wool were withdrawn front bond Bank Expects Better Business in January, CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—In the view of George M. Reynoldh. president of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, January will mark a definite Pirn for betterment in the business situation. Mr. Reynolds predicates his opinion on the condition and business of the institution of which lie is the head “Our deposits to-day are $9,000,000 higher than they were on the corre sponding days a year ago. Our cash means are ampler and our general re sources stronger. And though the. country banks owe us some $25,000,- 1 . payments are prompt enough to make us feel comfortable. The atmosphere has been gloomy. Pessimism still is the keynote in the Ktreet. It might, therefore, sound ul- tracourageous to predict confidently a decided Improvement after the turn of the year, hut one must refuse to be affected by the feelins and senti ments of the. financial district and take for safer indications tHe charac- °x f *! ,e vve are doing in this bank. „ South Among the Leaners. Of course, some sections are still leaning heavily upon our shoulders I he South, for Instance, where bor row Ings were largely based upon a cotton crop whose bountlfulness was diminished by the floods. Not a few enterprises that were flourishing six months ago require renewed credits. These are all perfectly good, as art* the loans made by Southerners. “It is merely a question of carrying such people longer than we had‘fig ured on. Even so, the general collec tions elsewhere more than compen sate for the tardiness in the quarters mentioned. "And as we gradually adjust our selves to the tariff you will find that business will look up again. Currency Reform Nearer. ‘T am forgetting the currency ques tion. The differences between the ad ministration and the bankers are not. many and not now exceptionally vital. “To be sure, bankers can not yield the points of being forced into an investment and of investment without representation. "We are willing to waive features which we (leemQunwls* and compro mise on clauses that we consider in imical to the welfare of banking sci ence, but upor the two questions 1 have Just stated we must be firm. I have great hopes that these essentials will be recognized.” NEW YORK. Dec. 6. -Instead of following ilie time honored practice of authorizing .State Legislatures to levy sufficient taxes year by year, the new Louisiana Constitution actually levies these taxes, naming a fixed rat* which the officials say will be sufficient to pay the serial bonds to be issued in December as they fall due in from one to fifty years, as well as th semi-annual Installments of in terest. Has No Discretion. The Legislature is given no discre tion in the matter, according to Caldwell, Masslick & Reed, attorneys of this city, who say that after levy ing the tax the same article provides for emergencies by requiring the State Auditor to make a computation each year of the amount which can be realized by the levy of the fixed rate. If that amount Is not sufficient, due to reduction of the assessed val uation or other causes not now fore seen, the Auditor is required to com pute a new rate that will be sufficient and extend it upon the tax rolls for collection as other State taxes are col lected. States are Immune frpm suit, but their officers are subject to writs of mandamus to compel the perform ance of specific duties, and this pro vision for automatic extension of the rate of the tax is one that the bond holders can enforce by mandamus. A few months ago the attention of investors was called to the default of the city of Atchison, Kans., in ttie payment of maturing bonds, no sink ing fund having been provided, and the city being determined to compel its creditors to accept new’ bonds at a rate of interest lower than tho market rate. The courts promptly gave relief, although they gave tho city a few years in which to make up the default. More Cities Adopt Plan. A great many municipalities have adopted the new plan, and a notable case is that of Seattle, which a few months ago issued one to five-year serial bonds to the amount of $1,00.0,- 000 to pay a debt falling due, al though the first ordinance for the payment of the debt provided for twenty-year bonds. The adoption of this policy by the State of Louisiana will go a long way in inspiring the confidence of investors, and is likely to prove a model in State financial legislation, both in Its plan for grad ual retirement of the State debt and its provisions for actually guarantee ing the payments. The ATLANTA 3 NIGHTS COMMENCING MONDAY DEC. 8 SPECIAL MATINEE WEDNESDAY KLAW & ERLANGER Present 1| ROBERT W\ HilliarD An A9CHK KAVTON. Who SoDe* the Jfrsterj “THE ARGYLE CASE" By ttARRIKT FORD AND HARVEY J. O'HK.I.INS. In collaboration with (hr fa- noan defective*. WILLIAM J. BURNS. PHILADELPHIA COMMENTS LAST WEEKi "Best thing Hilliard has done.”— Preaa. “REAL Detective Play.”— 1 Telegraph. “Tense, Ingenious. Inquirer. "Excellent Acting.”—■ North American. "Fine Climaxes.**- Record. "Sparkling Comedy." Itulletlo. "Best Detec tive Play Yet.”- Ledger. The Dictograph—-The Finger Print Proem—Original Near York Cast. R S |ST* O - » \ IMNt.S—-25c, 50e, 75c, *1. *1.50 and %Z ■ ^ *■— w - WEDNESDAY MATINEE—25c to $J.50. Thursday, Friday, Saturday Seat Sale Monday 9 a. m. MATINEE SATURDAY THE FhJfcS O ST EVER ASSEMBLED IN THE BIGGEST PLAY OF THE CENTURY H. H. ERAZEE Prenanis Rose /" COGHLAN WU.TOM LACKAYE kl I.IM- VVAjLlJOi'h UKAMAT1C MAttTKKf"tkt k • _ LOUT* ROBERTSON NI*X F1GMAN LVMA DICKSON RIDLEY A JAMES ATLANTA AUDITOR % GEORGIA V>c OriglBNl Pro4 Dtrwt frooo a Re an—ma mt the 4« Yt»*r. Mas* > nti and th^ Cart Theater. * kWf a NIGHTS, 25c. 50c. 75c. $1. S1.50, $Z MATINEE. 25c. 50c. 75c. #1. *130. 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