Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-04
! Less Cotton Is Produced In is Country It Demands Much
 Better Prices.
Y COTTON MEANS
 LOW PRINTING CLOTHS.
Ifoes Have R9Ft Face With the VarYing Prices of Cotton, and Are Lower Today Than
 Eyer Before.

ew York, Oct. IA special to The
 hes from Washington says:
 E Ihe phenominally low price recently
 orted, said to be tho lowest point
 ehed in many years, lends special in-
 ast to Q series of tables just complied s the treasury bureau of statistics, show
 the remarkable. increase in cotton
 auetion and coincidental fall in
 res These tables show that the
 aited States, the chief cotton producer < the world, has quadrupled her cotton
 pluction since 1872, and that the price
 cotton in the same period, has fallen
 about one-fourth that which prevailed
 that year.
 In 1872 the cotton crop of the United
 ates is shown to have been 1884, ,0S4,- .
 2 pounds, with an average price of
 a.l9 cents per pound. In 1898 the crop
 freported at 5,667 ,S72, ,051 pounds, with hayerage price of 6.23 cents per pound. Fhua the production of 1898 is more than
 ur times that of 1872, and the average &rico but little over one-fourth that of |hat year.
 When it is considered that the other pntions of the world that grow cotton have not all reduced their production [neantime, it is apparent that the in- Eaeased cotton supply of the world in |ha quarter of century under consider |ition has been very great and far in ad. |nnce of the increase in population or |@nsuming power
 Twenty-Five years ago the United Sates produced 70 per cent of the cot pEof the world; today she produces 85 per cent of the world $ cotton.
 This increase ill the percentage has 9een, not because of a reduction of he cotton produced i'll other parts of the Yorld but simply on account of the in- rease Ill our own. The cotton supply the other cotton producing sections of le world in 1S72-3 was ,667 ,000 bales, nd In lS97-S, 1 ,665,000 bales. The av- rage cotton production of other conn. les from 1872 to 1878 was S,000 ales per annum and from 1890 to 1897 as ,924, 900 ba es per annum, showing lat there also has been slight growth cotton production ill other parts of the orid, while our own production has zen increasing enormously.
 Not only has the prices of cotton fal- Il at about the same rate the produc- on has increased, but there has also zen a corresponding fall in the price of othes manufactured from cotton. The port of the bureau of statistics show lat the cotton "printing cloths" were noted at 7.SS cents per yard in 1872, hlle reports just published show an 'erage rate of 2.l7 cents per yard in the 'tton year 1899 for the same grade of oths, the fall in the price of the manu- lcrnred article thus having in this case least near.y or quite kept pace with ~ i.'ii i.'ii III tiie price or raw cotton ana crease in production of that article. It is proper to aid that the prices noted for the earlier years are based pon the currency values Of tbat period, ld II reduced TO q gold basis would be lgnily less. Cotton printing cloths'' nose prices are given i'll the table are the quality manufactured for use Ill rlnting calicoes and accepted as q andard grade by which prices are con. antly quoted.
 The following table gives the pounds