The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-08-07

The report shows that tho product
in South Carolina is second only TO
that of Massachusetts in value in cloths,
shectings and tWills, and that the value
of the product in South Carolina of
cloths, sheetings and twils is 800,
1913 ,919. The census bulletin has this
remarkable and certainly most inter
csting statement
1t was not possible, of course, to
account for all the exports declared
upon the clearing Of vessels for foreign
ports, since considerable part Of the
domestics sold abroad are made for the
home market and are purchased for
sale in other countries after they have
passed wholly out of the control and
the knowledge OF manufacturers but,
80 far as the managers of mills are able
to trace their products, they furnished
goods for export during the year 1899
1900 to the value of $15 1857 ,502, or
about five-eighths of the value of cloth
exported during the fiscal year. Almost
60 per cent. Of The total value repre-
scnts the product Of Southern mills
and nearly 81 per cent. the goods of
New England. 1t is an interesting
fact that South Carolina, which was
historically and politically during the
years preceding the civil war the most
conspicuous champion of policy ia.
! vorable to the expectation of raw cot
ton, upon which the planters most re.
lied, and opposed to the fostering OF
manufactures of cotton, spun in its
own mills in 1900 quantity of cotton
exceeding the half Of its own crop and
| exported close upon one-half Of all the
cotton cloth reported to the census rs
having been dispatched to foreign
countries. The exact percentage Of
South Carolina of the total export re-
ported was 455"
The Atlanta Journal, in commenting
upon the census report concerning cot
ton statistics, has the following peril
nent comparisons
| If anybody had predicted twent'
years ago that by this time the Soutl
would have attained her present i'm
portance in the textile industry h
would have been lergheu at. Thcr
has been nothing in the same line any
where comparable TO this advance il
the part of the country that has beer
called slow by those who either knoy
little about it or Intentionally misrep
resent it. The actual facts and figure
.. tell q story of the SOuth's progress il
textile manufactures during the lac
two decades that is more eloquent tha
any words that could be used on til
subject.
. The official figures of the last ccnsu
, show that tho capital invested in tn
q South in the textile industry was bu
1915 ,370 ,140 in 1880 and by 1900 ha
I, grown to $146, ,840,155. The capits
D in the same industry in New Englan
. IN 1880 was $2G1 ,561 ,147. In 1900
n was 1924 800 1862. Thus while TIL
capital IN the textile industry of tn
q South had increased 47S per cent. i
G tweny years that of New England h a
r increased only 10G per cent.
v The actual and relative increase
d the value of the textile products of III
:. South was quite as remarkable.
F. grew from 1876 5,G3S ,24G in 1880
!. $114, 1897 ,GG8 in 1900. The figures fl
{. he New England mills were 1910 ,542
It 362 in 1880 and $4l2 ,875,975 IN 100
d The value Of the textile product of Il
10 South increased in twenty years -
10 per cent. and that of New Englal
h only 80 per cent. The increase of Il
rs whole county in these two items
ID capital invested in the textile indust
% and the value of It's product for /
nt period mentioned was 142 per cent. I
OF the former and 65 per cent. for |
latter.
of In 1880 the Investments in tho