Americus Weekly Recorder in Americus, Georgia

Cotton Receipts and Market Rates In Early Americus

The issue reports cotton receipts at rations warehouses with yesterday’s and prior totals, quoting Good Middling and Middling ranges as market firm. Local notes mention a George Council express bale, a tramp through the city, and rail progress toward Antoch on the Western Extension of the A P and L. The piece urges cash terms, advertises goods at Barlow Block, and reports court adjournment due to Judge Pate’s sickness. It highlights reduced A P and L road cotton rates to Americus from Lumpkin Richland and Preston, notes local merchants’ activity, and argues for a local foundry to service growing engines and machine work to attract industry.