The Arizona sentinel., 1880-10-02
Cotton Manufactures.

labor in England should stimulate
production in the United States.
This is especially true in regard
to the production of cotton gposI-.
Over 10000 mill operatives :,r,. on
a strike in one English district
alone, and the owners of nearly
all the mills Iu Lancashire wi,ose
hands have not struck have
agreed run them on short time.
This will reduce production nate.
rally, and enable manufactures
to work off surplus stock Il: DID
prices; but if American capitalists
take advantage Of this Labor dis
turbance in England they may be
enabled to displace English IN IA
ufactures to very great extent.
This country is the great cotton
field of the world, last seasons
crop of 5,757,397 bales, excae,ii:ag
that Of any previous year, Fac
most productive year before the
war was 1S59-60, when the cotton
crop reached 4,S23,77 balss. ''he
much larger crop of 1879 was
raised with far fewer hand. than
the slave holders empioyed in
1859-60. OF this raw cotton
American mills manufactured
$780, 900 bales in 1873, and it is
calculated that 1,7j0,00 bales will
be used up by our mills during
the present year. More than
half a million spindies were
added to the Northern mills atone
during the past year, and The
South is steadily adding To its
milling power. This season the
Southern mills took from the
crop OF the previous year 10000
bales, being an excess OF 81 $50
bales over 1879; and as thirteen
new mills are in course Of erac.
tion it is evident that next year's
production from the Southern
cotton mills will be very much in.
creased. The South has q very
great advantage every way over
the Eastern mill owners, because
they save 20 per cent. on the raw
material by having 1t OF the spoi,
and as the price of the raw mate.
rial is "a per cent. of the cost Of
the manufactured article, the diff
ference in favor of the South is
sufficient in time to make il the
great cotton manufacturing centre
of the world. The cheap labor Of
is Offset by the cheap
supply of the South; and the dif-
ference In the price of money be.
tween England and Georgia or
Louisiana, employed in manufac-
turing industries, is almost equal.
lied by the loss and depreciation
caused by strikes in the former
country. The experience OF
manufacturers is that
their home labor is easily taught,
and cheap. 1t is also
Here, then, is new
field for Industrial progress and
development. There are 13,0O0.'
600 acres of cotton land i'll the
South, capable of producing a
very mnch larger yielt: of cotton
fiber than is now produced, and
the bulk of this may as easily be
on the spot into thread
and cloth for export as exported
raw to be manufactured abroad.
II is a noteworthy fact. however,
hat while all the cotton nills of
he country have been runningto
heir full capacity during the past
wo years, the export of cotton
manufactures fell Off fr "a S,I,-
81, ,66O in 1858 to SO, ,353, ,95D in
879, and S9,981 AIS fer late year
,nding June 80, 1880. This was
wing to the increa>ei iiIrns de-
nand; but as We have pointed
ut, the shortening oi pTpdactinn
n England should act Il e sti,nu-
US to American manufacturers.
There is vast field to be covered
n this direction if i, is only fully