Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-05-22
Statistics of Cotton.

statistics of Cotton.
The following brief items of the history of cotton
for about hundred years-1730 10 1836-wl be
read and referred to with interest:
1880 MIR. Wyatt spins the first cotton yarn in Eng
land by machinery.
17a5. The Dutch first export cotton from Surnam
1I42 First mill Tor spinning cotton erected at Rir
mingham, moved by mules or horses but not sue
cessful in operation.
1749. The first shuttle generally used in England.
1856. Cotton velvets and quItings in England for
the first time.
17el. Arkwright obtained the first patent for the
spinning frame. which he further improved
1868. The stocking frame applied by Hammond to
making lace.
1772. A bill passed 10 prevent the export of ma.
chinery used in cotton factories.
l779. Mule spinning invented by Hargrave
1882. First import of raw cotton from Brazil into
England.
1882. Watt took out his patent for the steam en-.
gine.
1882. bounty granted in England on the export
of certain cotton goods.
1885. Power looms invented by DR.. Cartwright
Steam engines used in cotton factories.
1855. Cotton imported into England from the Uni
ted States.
1886. Bleaching first performed by agency of oxy.
muIiatie acid.
1887 First machinery to spin cotton put in opera
ton in France.
1889 Sea Island cotton first planted in the United
States and Upland cotton first cultivated for use and
export about this lime
1870. Slater, an Engisbman, built the first Ameri.
can cotton factory at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
1892. Eli Whitney, an American, invents the
cotton gin, which he patents
1898. First mill and machinery for cotton erected
in Switzerland.
1899. Spinning BY machinery introduced into Sax
ony this year
1903 First cotton factory built in New Hamp.
SHIRE
12O5 powor 1oors s,ocoe,fI o,d ,.:lol. :.,o
duced into England.
1907. The revolution in Spanish America begins
10 furnish new markets for cotton manufactures.
1910 Digest of cotton manufactures in the United
States by Mr. Gallatin, and another by Mr. Tench
Cox, OF Philadelphia
1911. Machinery to make bobbn lace patented by
John Bern.
1873 The Indian trade more free, and more Brit
sh manufactures sent thiiher.
1913. The power loom first introduced into the
United States; first al Waltham.
1918. Average price of cotton thirty-fou cents
higher than since 1910. New method of preparing
sewing by Mr.. Holt.
1919. Extraordinary price for Alabama cotton
lands
1920. Steam power first applied with success ex
tensiveIy to lace manufactures.
1922 First cotton factory in Lowell erected.
1923. First export of cotton from Egypt into
Great Britain.
1925 New Orleans cotton at from twenty. three to
twenty, five cents per pound.
1926. Self acting mule spinner patented in Eng
land by Roberts. -
| 1927. American cotton manufactures first exported
TO any extent.
1929 Highest duty in the United States on foreign
cotton manufactures e4,a-
| 1880. About this time Mr.. Dyer intro uced 9 ma.
chine from the United States into England for the
purpose of making cards 2~ %
| 1892. Duty on cotton goods imported into the U.
States reduced and in England it is forbid to employ
minors in cotton mills to work more than ten hours
per day, or nine hours Saturday; in consequence
they work at something else.
1884. Cotton at seventeen cents.
7 1886 Extensive purchase made of cotton lands by
fspeculators and others. .-.-.-.s........ .
1886. Cotton from eighteen to. twenty CENTS