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This picture of a Lee Line Steamers wharfboat is from a unused therefore undated postcard.\u00a0 The gentlemen standing by the mule cart could be cotton merchants waiting for a bale or two of cotton to be unloaded from the wharfboat and taken to their cotton office on Front Street Memphis for grading.\u00a0\u00a0 My mothers grandfather had his cotton office on Front Street along with numerous other cotton merchants.<\/p>\n

Definition of Cotton<\/p>\n

\u201cCotton is the over-coat of a seed that is planted and grown in the Southern States to keep the producer broke and the buyer crazy; is planted in the spring, mortgaged in the summer and left in the field in the winter.\u00a0 The fiber varies in color and weight and the man who can guess nearest the length of a fiber is called a cotton man by the public, a fool by the farmer and a poor business man by his creditors.\u00a0 The price of cotton is fixed in New York and goes up when you have sold and down when you have bought.\u201d\u00a0 A buyer working for a group of mills in the South was sent to New York to watch the cotton market and after a few days deliberation wired his firm as follows:\u00a0 \u201cSome think it will go up and some think it will go down , I do too, whatever you do will be wrong, act at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

This humorus definition of cotton came from the memoirs (dated July 21, 1921) of my mothers grandfather Marius Harrison Gunther who was a cotton and tobacco broker in New Orleans and Memphis in the 1870\u2032s through the 1920\u2032s.\u00a0 The Lee Line hauled millions of pounds of cotton and cotton seed from 1862 until the early to mid 1890\u2032s when the railroads took much of the cotton trade from the steamboats.<\/p>\n

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