Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
COTTON STATISTICS.
Official report for the United States for the
Commercial Year Closing with August.
Largest Crop Ever Grown.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 1.-The
COTTON exchange issued to-day an offcIal
report of the cotton crop of the United
| States for the commercial year ending
with the close of August, 1890, made Up
| by Secretary Hester. The report states
the total crop amounts to 1881 ,322
bales, exceeding the largest crop ever
grown by PCS ,4S9 bales, and the crop of
last year by 373 ,032 bales. Every
point throughout the cotton belt
| has been thoroughly investigated
by Geographic and other information
from the exchanges, railroad officials
and mill owners. 1t has been
checked aud rechecked. so that
the statements will bear the closest
scrutiny. The report comments
on the different methods in vogue for
computing the cotton crop. 1t objects
TO the way in which the cotton move
meut of Brunswick, Ga. , is now counted
and suggests cotton exchanges; insists
that the Brunswick figures he made
up ut some other important cotton
ports. 1t also objects TO the method of
deductIng cotton consumed i'll Southern
cotton ports from the totals of cotton
shipped across the Mississippi and Poto-
mac rivers. 1t claims that such
system is not only misleading, but
enormously decreases the figures
of Northern consumption. The leading
feature of the report IS the census of
Southern mills. Secretary Hester has
obtained reports from every mill in the
South and claims that his state
ment does not contain single
element of estimate. The information
-.
embracing larger field relating to the
consumption of cotton in the South and
its progress than has yet been compiled.
The total consumption of the South for
the past year is reported at 5{6, 365
bales, against 4Sl ,235 bales last year
The number of mills in operation is 270,
with l65 1870 spindles. Thirty mine new
mills, with 241 1854 spiudles, have COM
menced work during the year, and tif-
teen new mills have been completed, md
will be at work this fall. Forty-four
mills are idle, n number
of which expect 10 start
up again at an early date. The total
number of mills in the South is now 1856
with 40 ,Sl9 looms rank !, Sl9 .29l spin
dies. Secretary Hester says the increase
of spindles during the past
year is equivlant to nearly
one half of the entire number reported
in the south by the census of 1880. The
census of that year showed 1874 mills
with 56l 1850 spindles. The gain within
the past ten years has been 172 mills
with .22G, All splndles, the increase
in the number OF bales of cotton
consumed having been 357 ,6l5, or more
than lS9 per cent.
With reference to the cotton move
meut for the year, the statement makes
the net receipts ut delivery ports 5 ,S57,-
ia, u gain over last year of BOG 1923
bales; over land direct TO northern mills,
937 AL, a decrease from last year
of 1928 bales. The Southern consump-
ton, exclusive of 80 ,2l7 bales taken
from Southern outport, is 5l6 ,677, a
gain over last year of 67l9 bales. The
total crop is 1911 322 bales,
a gain over last year OF 373, o72 bales. |
Foreign exports, including so ,49l bales |
TO Canada, were 495, 53l, a gain over |
last year of los ,253 bales. The takinRs |
of cotton during the year for consump- |
tion in the United States amounted to |
2 ,346, l52 bales. OF this ,799 ,25S bales |
were to Northern spinners, against |
! 1856 ,979 last season.
This shows an increase of only 3,279 |
bales against an increase in the South of |
nearly GS 900 bales. Not only is the |
crop of lSS9-90 the largest crop ever pro-
duced, bit it has moved OFF with unex-
ampled rapidIty and brought full prices
the year, netting to |
the farming interest handsome |
surplus. One of the curious features OF |
this years movement was the shipment |
of more than 1000 bales OF American cot
ton through Ontario via the Canadian |
Pacific railway 10 japan. Fifty bales |
were also shipped to Japan from port |
of New York.