The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-26
BRITAIN's COTTON TRADE.
She Stin Does an Immense Amount
of Cotton business.

washington, Jan. % mere dlc ESt
worlds to conquer" for the cotton manu-
facturers of the United States. True.
their exports of cotton cloth have in
creased from 1856 milion yards in 1890 to
25S million yards in 1900, ard would doubt
less have been much greater in the last
year but for the extremely high price OF
cotton Yet when the exports OF cotton
goods by the United Kingdom for the
year 1900 and preceding years are eX-
amined it becom s gu te appar mt that
there is st.ll a large opportunity awaiting
a people who can liant he factory SIDE
the cotton field ard operate it with cheap
er coal, better machinery and mo skill
full and effective labor than that of the
nat on which transports is cotton many
thousand miles, brings it's CT al from
thousands of feet below the surface ana
vet distributes more than hVe Dillon
yards of cotton goods to the world every
year.
The Accounts Relating to the Trade
and Navigation of the United K ngdom
for the year 1900" which has just been
received by the Treasury Bureau OF sta
tistics. shows the expectation OF cotton
cloth from the United Kingdom to the
various parts of the world for the years
1898 1899 and 1900 It ows tfat the total
expectation of cotton p ere goods OF all
kinds in 1890 was 5C3l2 0,6OO yards OF
about twerty times our own exp rus LOT
the year. despite he fact that four-hiths
of the raw cotton from wh en- IL was
made was produced in the United states
The total import ors OF raw cotton into
the limited kingdom in 1900 were 10 736 .1I2
,undredweights. of which l2.10l,lOO nun
dredweights were from the United States
7Sg 1922 from Egypt, 3S3,H2 fir m INDIA
on 462 from Brazil and 40 04 hundreu-
weights from other countries. the tolaI
y,ali,e of the cotton imported into the
rfrlted kingdom in 1900 was
Al .0271s1 pounds sterling, or $lSs'
$50 900. and to total value OF
cotton manufactures exported from .he
United Kingdom in that year was 62'OS2'-
2I2 mounds sterling, or S3000O0,OOO.
True the United Kingdom has not ma
terially increased her expectations OF
cotton goods in the decade during which
the United States has more than doubled
her exports in that line: yet she has
steadily and sturdily held her own in the
markets OF the world against the agrees
sions Of other countries. The exports of
,otton-piece goods from the United King
dom in 1890 were i2i966.OOo yards. and
in 1900. as already stated, 5,U3i'2oO'OJo
Yards. GermanyS exports OF cotloH mar
ufactures. which are stated in her Off
,ial publications in kilogrammes and not
in yards increased from 2s'85,40O kilo-
grams in 1899 TO 81 5000 Kilograms
In 1890 From Frame the exports OF cot
Ton manufactured in 1890 were 1926 900
kilos and in 1899, 32.OO3,OOO. kilos. Thus
while the United States has shown a
Greater percentage of growth in her ex-
norts of cotton manufactures than that
of any other nation during the decade,
the fact that Europe. although buying
most OF It's cotton from the United States,
exported in 1900 more than AOO,OOOO
worth of cotton manufactures, while our
own manufacturers were exporting about
S21 400 900 worth, suggests great future
possibilities for a people for whom ma
ure has done so much I'm her supply or
ne raw cotton and of all the requirements
for its manufacture
The following table exhibits the expor-
tation Of cotton piece goods from the
United Kingdom. in 1900 showing the to-
tai number Of yards and the amount to
each or the principal countries More
than half OF this enormous total Of $780,
0OOOO yards exported from the United
Kingdom in 1900 went to her colonies and
other territory over which she exercises
control.
Cotton manufactures exported from the
United Kingdom in 1900: