The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-28
TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
CENSUS REPORT MAKES SPLENDID
SHOWING.
OVER ONE BILLION INVESTED.
sOUTH'S GREAT INCREASE IN cor
TON MANUFACTURE.

Total Value of Products in 1900
1891 ,494,566 and Total Value OF
Textiles Consumed in United States
ss05, 5S7 ,5S1-The Imports ONLY 9.1S
Per Cent.-We Lead All the Conn
tries Except Great Britain, Whose
prominence Is in Cotton Manu-
fncture Southern States Have
Sprung From $2O.413,414 Invested
in 1850 to $137,172,06I in 1900.
Washington, June 27.-The census
bureau to-day issued report on the
combined textile industry of the Unit
ed States for 1900. The branches in
cluded in the industry follow:
Cotton manufactures, including cot
ton goods and cotton small wares,
wool manufactures, including wooden
goods, worsted goods, carpets and
rugs, other than rag, felt goods and
wool hats; silk manufactures, hosiery
and knit goods, cordage and twine
linen goods; jute goods and dyeing and
finishing textiles.
The census shows a capital of ST.
O42 997,577 invested in the 4.312 estab-
lishments reporting for the industry
The sum represents only the live capt.
tai utilized and the value of the lands,
buildings, machinery, tools and imple-
ments.
The value of the products is given at
1891. 494, 566, to produce which involved
an outlay of 1923, 2S9, 1852 for salary of Of
ficials, clerks, etc; $209O22,447 for
wages; $63, 122, 916 for miscellaneous ex-
penses, and 1921, S45200 for materials
used, mill supplies, freight and fuel
The value now reported for hosiery
and knit goods cannot be divided be-
tween cotton and wool; but if it be
added to the reported home production,
the total value of the textiles consum-
ed in the United States in 1900 is $780,
5S7,5S1, and the percentage imported is
only 9.1S.
The report says that the table census
seems to indicate that the United
States in 1900 was the leading country
of the world in the manufacture of cot
ton, but quotes other authorities and
adds:
Although the amount consumed by
the countries of the European conti-
nent exceeded that consumed in the
United States. the consumption in the
latter country greatly exceeded that of
any one of the countries, France, Ger
many, Austria, Russia and others.
1t is, however, universally known
that Great Britain is far in the lead in
cotton manufacture. The fact is
brought out in the special report of the
cotton industry that an immense pro-
portion of the spinning in the United
States is coarse or medium VarnA
whereas the average spinning on the
other side of the Atlantic is much
finer"
Great Increase in south.
The report concludes:
The sudden spring of the Southern
States into prominence in the cotton
Industry is shown by the total increase
of capital from $40 Alb, Ala in 1880 to
S.. 1928. 129 in 1890, to $137, liz, 561 in 1900
Ten years ago, and also in $780, Geor-
gia was easily the leader in the
Southern States, but it has now been
surpassed by both South Carolina and
North Carolina in each of which states
the value of products was not much
less than in the states of Maine and
New Hampshire, Where the industry
has been established for half a centu-
ry, and in the number of hands en-
poyed both North and South Carolina
surpass both of these two New Eng
land states. The growth in Alabama
has also been very great, the amount
of capital having almost exactly quad
rupled in ten years"