PRIMARY COTTON MARKET CONDITIONS IN OKLAHOMA. 
15 
in typical local markets from day to day, Table VIII has been pre- 
pared, showing the results of our collections at Mountain Park on 
five different dates in November and at Norman on ten different dates 
from October 21 to December 21. 
Table VIII. — Range of grades sampled at Mountain Park and Norman, Okla., 1 
on certain dates, with range in prices paid and published differences on same 
range of grades. 
Place. 
Date. 
Number 
of bales 
sampled. 
Highest 
grade. 
Lowest 
grade. 
Difference 
in cents 
per pound 
actually- 
paid. 
Published 
difference 
sheet 
difference. 
1912. 
Nov. 4 
Nov. 11 
Nov. 14 
Nov. 18 
Nov. 21 
Oct. 21 
Oct. 24 
Oct. 26 
Oct. 30 
Nov. 4 
Nov. 15 
Nov. 22 
Nov. 29 
Dec. 7 
Dec. 21 
16 
14 
15 
20 
17 
6 
8 
13 
13 
16 
5 
12 
10 
5 
8 
G.M 
G.M 
G.M 
S.M 
S.M 
S.M 
S.M 
G.M 
S.M 
S.M 
S.M 
S.M 
M . 
S. G. 0... 
S.G.O... 
S.G.O... 
S.L. M... 
L.M 
S.L.M... 
L.M 
S.L.M... 
L.M 
M 
1.45 
1. 7625 
1.40 
1.45 
1.80 
.10 
.15 
.25 
.40 
.55 
.25 
.90 
1.50 
.50 
2.25 
2.25 
Do 
2.25 
Do 
2.875 
Do 
.5625 
Do 
1. 4375 
.50 
Do 
1.125 
Do 
.625 
Do 
1.125 
Do 
.125 
Do 
L.M 
L.M 
L.M 
M. tinge... 
S. L. M. 
tinge. 
1 125 
Do 
1. 4375 
Do 
1.25 
Do 
M. spot. . . 
S.M 
.25 
Do 
1. 1875 
1 Special acknowledgment is made of the efficient assistance of Mr. Emil Schulze, of Norman, and Mr. C H. 
Pinkley, of Mountain Park. Without such aid this table could not have been presented. 
The figures for Mountain Park in Table VIII are especially sig- 
nificant as they show that practically the same range of prices oc- 
curred on November 18 when nothing better than strict middling 
nor worse than strict low middling was sold, as occurred on preceding 
days., when the grades ran from good middling down to strict good 
ordinary. In one case (November 18) with only two grades between 
the highest and lowest bales the difference in prices actually paid was 
$7.25 a bale, while in another (November 14) a difference of only $7 
occurred in spite of the fact that the highest and lowest were five 
grades apart. 
A significant fact in the data for November 21, not shown in the 
table, is that the highest price of the day was paid for a middling 
bale, although there were four better bales among those sampled. If 
we exclude this one high-priced bale from the tabulation, the actual 
price range would be 30 points less, and would then agree closely 
with the difference sheet. 
The sampling at Norman was more comprehensive and extended 
through a longer period than at any other point in the State. Nor- 
man has three cotton buyers. It is on the main line of the Santa Fe 
Eailroad and has no competing transportation line. It is in many 
ways typical of the small primary markets of the State. The results 
of the collections on 10 dates are given to show about what happens 
