But cotton prices were much lower than before the war, so everyone was poor.
At the end of the year 2009 the city suffered as the cotton prices increased.
Cotton prices have surged 5.5 percent in the last four days.
Cotton prices kept going up as the South remained the main supplier in the world.
Conditions turned much worse in the Panic of 1893, as cotton prices fell.
Other industries were affected directly by the fall of cotton prices.
As cotton prices were high, there was demand for Ellison's services.
On other markets, cotton prices rose while heating oil fell.
There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years.
As noted, cotton prices fell during the 1880s and 1890s, increasing economic pressures.