Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-03-14

FACTS IN ITS HISTORY AND MANU-
FACTURE.

FACTURE.
The following statistics in TIE history of cot
ton, which we copy from Hunts Merchants
Magazine for March, will no doubt prove new
to the most of our readers, and instructive to
all. tAs facts for future reference they are in
valuable:
Up to the beginning of the eighteenth centu-
ry, the small amount of cotton imported into
England was from Cyprus and Smyrna.
The annual average importation into England,
the five years inclusive from l7OO to l7O0,
amounted to ], III 600 pounds.
In l73O Mr.. Wyatt first spun yarn cotton by
machinery.
In 1913, on the 25th November, the trustees
for the settlement of Georgia, were presented
with a paper of cotton-seed by Mr.. Philip Mil
ler, of Chelsea, England, which reached Geor-
gia in March, 1884
In 1875, the first cotton was sent to Holland
bv the Dutch colony of Surinam, in South Ame-
RIGA.
In 174I, raw cotton imports into England
amounted to 100000 pounds.
In 1742, at Birmingham, England, the nrst
cotton spinning mill was built its motive power
was mules or horses
In I76O, only E2OO, 900 was the entire value Of
manufactured cotton goods in England
1851, Arkwright afterwards knighted) OBJ
tanned the first patent for his spinning frame
In 1867, the spinning jenny was invented py
James darRrdVo, WHICH spun ~
stead OF one. Raw cotton imports this year
we're about 100000 pounds.
In l774 q bill prohibiting the expectation OF
machinery employed in the manufacture of co t.
ton received the royal assent of England. rive
years after, the mule-jenny was invented
In 1781, Ireland first exported cotton goods TO
England, having sent over 239 pounds raw cot
ton, mixtures Of cotton and manufactures, to
the value of e157, and 1888 pairs of cotton
stockings.
In 1882, England received her first cotton
from Brazil. The same year England received
IL S2S, 600 pounds imports, and exported AL ,OOU
pounds, setting down the quantity manufactured
at II, 100000 pounds.
In l7S5, Rev Mr. Cartwright invented the
power loom. The same year Watts steam
engines were first introduced as the motive
power in driving machinery in cotton manutac-
tories.
The following year, chlorine was first used for
bleaching.
In 1857 the first cotton-spinning machinery
In 1883 short staple cotton began to be eul!i-
waited in the South, and sea island cotton was
fir introduced here.
In 1890, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Mr..
Slater erected a cotton mill-the first in Anne
RIGA.
In 1892, Eli Whitney, of New Haven, Con
necticut, then residing in Georgia, invented his
first cotton gin.
In 1898, Switzerland introduced cotton mills
The United States exported this year, $500, ,OOC
pounds Prices in England from 22d. to 2Sd.;
in American exports amounted to $3,5OO,OOO.
In 1902, New Hampshire built her first cotton
factory. Two years after, the first power-loom
was introduced into the United States, at Whel
than, Massachusetts,.
In 1922, first cotton factory erected at Lowell
Massachusetts.
The following year Egypt first exported cot
ton to England.
In 1926, Roberts, in England, invented hi'
self-acting mule-spinner
cotton manufactures in England in 1850, it in
creased in little more than half century, tt
over e34, 100000.
In l84l, the Eastern States had invested il
cotton manufactures capital of $40,6l2,9 1884.