The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-15
THE COTTON BELT CHANGING.
STATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
NOW RAISE ENOROMUs CROPS.
A Vast Field for the Manufactured
PrOduct-Peoplc of Japan and the
Orient Must he Clothed.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
North Carolina has already enough iAll:
within her borders to spin every bale O
cotton raised in the State and little IL
spare, AID in few years the same will ht
| true of Georgia. South Carolina and few
other Atlantic States. But now it is pre-.
dicted that Within ten years these great
Southern mills will be as far from the cen-
ter OF COTTON production as the New Eng
land mills when the distance is me tsuled
by freight rates The reason for - IS not
far TO seek. The cotton bslt has been
changing and shifting year by year Tie
great bulk Of our cotton came from the
States east of tie Mississippi twenty wears
aPo. bun today about seven Tennis of the
ci'ap is raised Beyond that river. The cot
ton belt was supposed originally to run only
through the best lands OF Virginia. Georaia
and the two Carolinas with the edges
Overlapping parts of the contiguous Sta. e..
'eNas was not thought Ct. Arkansas Was
LOO Tar west. and Missouri and Kansas
were supposed 10 be good only for corn AMI
cattle.
ihS map OF the cotton belt is entirely all
teiou' ana each successive year II nust he
oI'a'n seu 10 lhoiuae new territory where
t t, nSurlsEss abundantly. Texas has
ioFeei aheau IN cotton raising so randy
mat growers wonder whore IL viii SION,
AThansas has more recently started unnn
"a similar career. whlls the farmers of
hahsaS and Missouri are beginning n. r,ire
costoh On a large scale. At the preselt
NV, ,nee OF increase this great belt west of the
.. ssSsippi VIII soon be raising taree-
all
OF the South around which so much Interest
cehters today WIN have as great n pr,blem
10 s1ive as the New England malls ara
with. ''o
But the growth aud Development of the
coutoA mills in the South will conIbnue
NOV ynAt pne movement has been once
,1s macy WIZ not stop in the copton
VIII appear In Kansas and Missouri All
souih TO the gulf. There is sometbimy IN
ln.s new cotton belt that promises gye,,
li~hgs Tor The future. The climate Is IN |
some respects, better suited 10 co,t,n |
srrow4ng THAN the Atlantic sesbn,rJ St,fe,
i,he copion plants demonstrate this be,ter |
, III, IVY sclehDiiic theory. rbe busa |
$500 $500 h'si'er ana pears longer, while open
laiuess ieiis make the hawesrlng aasier
una the injury from insects aud we,sbos.
ess. W." "sathec
:, W = eaMmated by tae Department of 40.
avuiVure tnai cotton can be raised s,iseess-
Why IN nearly one-thiri OF the terrior,,
u tne United States. At present ne 49,
81 ps.t covers "a degrees of lonrlt,,d,
, s ABOUT 10 degrees OF latitude. hui oniv,
poSN one-lwontielh OF the land is aetuaily
ESQ st Ter cohon growing. Thus Tho aa'
oV,oov acres or COTTON plantations renrs
ent only fraction OF the vast ennsrn =,
o ~ SOIL mat mas never been tillAd
u ne rear thalt cotton growing ms ra.,t
- zeniuh, and tba. 1t mus son daaIi,,s
! s.ew OF the low prices received Tor ~ {
'onis UP every season thel ths new c,a ~, I
aslhs 10 come in, but like similar n,, ny /
iAres, ~ iaiss 20 produce any nar,anes.
esups' me world has lust bay,, - ~,
ovion. Our snvaslon OF The Jbpsnese aSe
ss with this product Is but a nron,is n,al
MI we may expect on a L,rgar 80, VI
lher Quarters. There are over soo i No. ~ 4
~ nsllnsh beings existing ON mis- elohs
nu o. ms number about siaR ara ,, 1,gue'
10y cssd, They 1.-Two An climates VIZ =
sue prosection Us needed. out tbat nr "tsis (
~ ~ mus, come In the form Of 600. n
oenes' The vast hories of he S,,a v'on a
le islands OF the Papsfic ana ~ V M OF o
irissn continent require cotfon sae great
leihsng. To-day they no with.ss vols Tor
ICES zee. within their means. ''apie az 81
TIE worlds yield OF cotton h.a ri
=. .ne"ty I'VE years, aud il bas nsu
'uo'ed itself In the last ten ycar. neSriy q