The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08

pounds Tals 10. however. eniy guess
work.
VERY little cotton IL imported The
Shanghai .-saifs a. ore tine tried few
tales 1s Indian cotton a. an experiment
X sas nat satisfactory hslng ooth dirty
And % a pcor quality OF ns>sr- In sae
LAST TWO years q fsw bales o. ArT1t-s lean
Gotten hAs beeG imported and exrzfz-
nentsd with tn tire Shanghai n.4iis " ssse
II r. NOT 80 white. It's f5@g Is longer. arc
Chinese cotton The hozse demand Is:
however. for coarse yarB-Sc- ard
csArse-
"Aassas 1850 erfrales are we-kizg y
hare been working eight 70 tan Tears, tns
Fsfrls igsssr klsYx fes~ p11 ~ sk1sEe &~ @sffs~
ness war. trase~ssand trait - ne lew
spirstles VII! be pat IN enc OF the sozngazs
rssils ssereay NJ rev NILS a<e bszIEtsng.
Fignty fh0usan. snindfea are working az
waefang, & these. ss.ss have been -
operation f9r aeout GIT years, the re-
rza&nde- cns year.
American Prospects There.
''Tss prospect OF n1arket Ia American
cotton depends entirely On the price
Al wnirh & car bs aid Down here
A. tie present moment the price for na-
are sloidsng back the crop on ts3- theory
.isas tne mills nasas, Use the Chinese cotton.
Practically, the crop g -eo-nerec- Fer
eotf0n delivered at the Shanghai mills.
SO & gold rs Gaelzl per isa i-3 pounds has
beef. pad IL has been a. low as i.4 taeiz
Der 10 Ia pounds The average price for
.lie Last tarse years has been - gold per
70 Ia pounds American cotton may. after
i.s superiority IS fully Demonstrated. bring
CO cents 70 sl.2S per l2s Ia pounds more
than the Chinese product: bat. until the
product is overcome. Il II not safe to ask
more than tia price cf Chinese cotton
In the mills here fhs average wage Is
m.s TO is.s cents, United States money, per
II md ztr Of he s-tsfx.
women II is not. however 10 be assumed
tina. production Is cheap N proportion TO
the low wages. One American will attend
20 as much machinery as three Chinese.
Nor viii the native woTkmen push ma
chlnsry as we do. They are careless, a.
well. and much time and money are lost
long, the Chinese do not work consecu-
ftseiy and steadily. might say without
much exaggeFation that a working day IN
China Is divided equally among work, sing
ed women. when employed IN factories,
must st down often 10 rest their MANNED
feet. The iarge-footed women working
with them demand equal rest. Altogether.
charge or a Chinese factory Is not hap
py one, and the cost of production Is not
cheap In proportion 10 the days wages"
Cotton of Russia.
Russian cotton has not yet fnterfered in
an apprecsative extent In Japan. owing to
remains TO be seen whether freightage over
the Great Siberian railway, when IL is fin
,sfstsi. viii not be too great an expense for
that product with the Lsasted States. Con-
ostio;as OF the Russian commodity are set
forth IN the following report from Con.
sal J. G. Moysaghs~. al Chemnitz, sent tc
the state department. April "a, iSaT:
I'm isi3, there were $500 cotton spin
dies. each turning off thirty-six pounds OF
yarn. at present. there are 5.0yooD0 spindles
each turning OF more than seveHty-two
The demand for raw cotton IL being
slowly. bat surely. supplied by the p.anta-
tons IN Central Asia ard the Caucasus
The cotton district in Central Asia has in
acres, The land Ill for cotton cultivation
In the Turkestan territory amounts to
s.sss 80 acres: and Of this 4.eis. $50 acres Is
already irrigated. Besides Tnrkestau
lands beyond the Caucasus grow cotton.
yielding already 2. ss51 10 pounds Russia
uses Il. 1850 pounds. one-teuth OF all
the cotton produced in Europe and Amer
lea
Expectations Decreasing.
Stree Russia began 30 build mills and
spin for herself, the imports OF cotton
yarns have steadily decreased. In isa2
s,fh' .2l2 pounds wss imported. In 1Ss4 S.0ia-
5A pounds. The quantity imported bears to
tho home product a ratio OF one 10 eighty
From 1873 "a 1880. an average OF 5.0ss5,sso
pounds OF sewing and knitting yarns was
Imported; in the years 1881 TO 1894. 1t was
not more than i.sS. 60 pounds The I'M
ports Of cotton cloths amounted In lisa to
y Ea s.s pounds, and decreased IN issa 10
Z. s2s pounds.
Russia Is sending large quantities az
eottons 70 Persia. Turkey, Roumania and
China. &C Persia's cotton cloth imports.
Russia supplies 20 per cent. Hs greatest
competitor In the nations named n Eng
land. From 1857 10 1850 the average cotton
cloth exports were !, gS3 sc pounds. IN the
which went to Persia. The total value Of
kussia's cotton trade. with a production
OF 1Is.ilk.tu1 pounds. amounted to so ns 60
rabies fthe consul does not say whether the
geld or silver r1bse s. meant. The value
Of the gold riihle II 1f2 cents: the silver
ruhle, Anrii ]. 1881. was 81 centsl. giving
i the FIRST place among the empires in
cu@trtes.
10 farm and manufacture so much cot
ton. Russia reeds machines such IA have
been successfully used In The United States
Gins pie ksrs cards, sinbbers. spinning
frames. mules. and warplng, dressing and
ayeiug machines are needed 10 carry on
knssia's c0tton and textile industries. BY
come ans these things must he supplied
% Russia Many AZ Saxony's large spin
ming concerns have hranch houses here"
Philippine Deterioration.
The cotton industry "a ,he Philippines
has flstsTjorated SO "a 20 be almost value
hess az = shown III the fsliHwing extract
from fhe Hnaetin ds Ia societe de sseog-
ranille Con- fnerr.Aie. Paris. vol. xix No. 4;
The iFo8aetion ef cotton is diminishing
u AfG&~ IN kf.t htnNfffCF" Ut &1FiH anu
SstGta ilaCGA. Union. Atra and pangasf-
ran. The ground Is almost never rrepar-
Cd ard the cotton IS silky IN quality ard
would easily become a valuable product
Il atssnt3an WIRE given 70 the cultivation.
II fhs two provinces y Hocus. too great
humidity ~ rot 10 NJ feared far sEEs plant
far re ssesson 81 rain g well defined here,
fsGsn Iuna "a October; ard the land ia
aGsu}e3 80 its rn|stSat tnn. Nevertheless,
the insioience % the rndji0s has caused cot
tor e take an tn1fer'og rank among ths
gfoIacgs ~ the colcuy
q ". JENNINGS.