The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-09-12
THE COTTON CROP OF 1s00.iooo
Secretary HOster's Report Says the
Total Was 0.130,41O Bales-SOuth
Carolina Leads In Manufacturing.

Secretary Hoster's Report Says the
Total Was 0.130,41O Bales-SOuth
Carolina Leads I'm Manufacturing.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot.
ton exchange annual report WAS issued
afew days ago. He puts the cotton
crop Of 1899 1900 at 9,436 41G bales. u
decrease OF 1888. 424 ander 1898 80. or
this he says that Texas, including
Indian Territory, shows falling of OF
9G4 600, the group OF other Gulf States,
consisting OF Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Utah and Kansas, 400, ,0O0 and the At
lantic States, consisting Of Aaoama
South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir.
ginia, 475, 900. He places the average
commercial value of the crop at 3S. So
dollars per bale against 25. 0S dollars
last year, 2S W dollars year before last
and 36.76 dollars in 1896 81, and the
total value of the crop 1868, 1856 900
against $292, 773 600 last year and 1922,
553, 900 the year before. He calls at
tention to the fact that the money
value Of the cotton crop just marketed
in $8l, ,0l2,000 over the lS9S-99 crop,
puts the total spindles in the South at
6,267, l63, an increase over last year OF
l,3l5,O7l. These include AIS, ,497 new,
not complete. The net gain in the
number of Southern mills over last
| year has been 1l3. making the total
new 663, and the consumption has been
divided as follows:
| Alabama, lat ,922 bales, an increase
Of 1850.
Arkansas, 1850 bales, decrease Of
SO2.
Georgia, 33o, ITO bales, an increase of
81, 1903.
Kentucky, 27 $50, an increase OF 697.
Louisiana, Ii 42O, decrease of sos.
Mississippi, 22,55O, an increase of
1855.
Missouri, 4,14S, an increase OF 1SO.
North Carolina, 435, ,6S6, an Increase
OF 80, 209.
South Carolina, 497, lac, an increpse
Of So, 16S.
Tennessee, 37,747, an increase Of
3,43l.
Texas, 1S,O37, an increase OF 1878.
Virginia, AS APT, an increase OF 3, 339.
Total consumption OF cotton In the
South ,59I, III, an increase of l97, ,7l3
bales.
In reference to the general manu-.
featuring industry Of the country and
it's comparative progress North and
South, he says that up to within sixty
or ninety days an active demand pre-
vailed for manufactured goods, and
notw outstanding the material advance
in the price Of the raw material, due
to shortage Of the crop and light
supplies the world over every available
loom and spindle In tho country was
busily engaged. The Chinese dihcul-
ties brought this activity TO sudden
halt, but not uLtil the amount of cotton
consumed had reached u figure in ex.
cess OF any year on record. He puts
The consumption Of Northern mills at
2. 800, 900 bales, which, together with
that OF the South, makes an aggregate
for the entire country OF 3, S97 900 bales
against 3 .5S9, 900 last year, an Increase
of 30S,000.
Mr.. Hester further remarks that,
taken as u whole, the year has been a
prosperous one for both the manu-
facturer and grower OF cotton. The
large Increase in manufactures is de-
veloping more strongly the necessity
for an Increased outlet In the way OF
exports, to which mill owners have re-
Gently been giving marked attention.
He contends that the check caused by
the trou bles in the far East is an object
Lesson showing that we have reached
pO.nt where this country can not ab-
sOrb the quantity OF goods manufacture
cd. Tho tendency, he says, is strongly
in the direction Of domestic spinners
working up the bulk Of the cotton
grown in tho United States into yarns
and fabrics. That this is revolution
which has set In so strongly, and
especially In the South, that it is GER
tain In the long run to prove success.
full.
In his special report on Southern
consumption, made up from actual re-.
turns OF all the mills In the South, he
says the facts in relation to cOnsumD-
tion and Increase OF spindles during
the year are phenomenal. Nearly
every Southern State has entered the
field and in all except Kentucky and
Missouri new mills are being erected
and numbers OF others are projected
with certainty OF building in the near
future. Year by year old aud anti
quated concerns have been dismantled
or remodeled and the Southern cotton
factories Of to day are of the newest
and latest improved machinery capable
of performing the best and greatest
amount OF work az d minimum cost.
How the industry has advanced he
shows by yearly comparisons from
1S80-9l, showing an Increase from 1886
mills in that year to 663 on September
l, 1900, gain of 327 mills. He goes
on to state that interesting as the
above showing is, the facts are even
better emphasized by the record Of
spindles and consumption In the South,
comparisons OF which are carried back
as far as 1860. They are :
Year. Number.
1860. ................. 295, $50
1917 O................... 33S, SOO
1851 .........." ".......... 00l ,3oO