The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-19
SoUTH'S COTTON SEED CROP.
CENSUS REPORT VALUES 1T AT
S54,345,677

Total Product of Cotton Seed for
Year 4,66s,346 Tons of Which %
Per Cent. Was Consumed by Oil
Mills, for which They Paid S2S,-
632,616-This Gave a Crude Manu-
featured Product valued at $42.-
422, S35-Estimated Value of Lint
Cotton for Census Year $33S, $780,
92I.
Washington, Jan. 1S.-The census re
port on cotton seed manufacture in 1900
shows that there were 375 establish
ments engaged in the extraction of
cotton seed oil in the United States,
using 2,479 1856 tons Of cotton seed, cost
ing $2S632 SIC, an average cost of $11.55
per ton. The total value of the pro-
ducts was $42. Ali, SS5. The quantity
crushed was SO per cent. of that pro
duced The latter Aggregated 1868, S46
tons, valued at $54,945,677, and the for
mer 2,479, 1856 TONS costing at the mills
s2S, e32, SIG. The available and actual
value of the crude manufactured pro-
ducts are $SO,371, S75 and $42, ,S35, re-
spectively.
The estimated value of the line cot
ton produced during the census year
is 1888 1856 921. The combined value OF
the lint and seed produced is 1898, 1927
59S, and the value of the entire cotton
crop, including the value of the avail
able crude manufactured products from
the seed, s419, POS 296. The quantity by
tons and cost of cotton seed crashed
and quantity and total value of pro-
ducts by states follows:
Alabama, cotton seed 1908 tons;
cost, $2.Ol9OS5; products, s2.s52.254.
Arkansas, 190,015 tons; cost, s2,245,-
10; products, $9,1SS,S12.
Georgia, 271,S33 tons; cost, $3,246, S14;
products, S4,7S7, 100.
Indian Territory, 26415 tons; cost,
s2y7, 739; products, S446,07S.
Louisiana, 250,9S3 tons; cost, s., 1898, :
767; products, S4397, S91.
Mississippi. BEASTS tons; cost, $4,5T,-
1896; products, $6,671, 031.
North Carolina, 107, $50 tons; cost, ST.
313,663: products, 81, $685. OILS.
Oklahoma, 26,425 tons cost, $247, $50;
products, S410, 063.
South Carolina, 1862 tons; cost, ST.
1879, 4OS; products, S3.043,547.
Tennessee, 16S, 307 tons; cost, 81 ,S4S,-
S29; products, $2,937,03S.
Texas, 692,604 tons; cost, 1850 Sol;
products, S11,519 656
All other states, 21,7S1 tons; cost,
1854. 225; products, 1878. $50
Mr.. Merriam's statement is designed
to explain how the deduction that the
South for the first time is now grow
ing as rapidly as the North harmon
ICES with the well-known facts that in
the North the proportion of inhabitants
living in cities is much larger than it
is in the South, and that as a rule
cities Increase in population much more
rapidly than country districts. The
statement shows that in the North the
proportion of the population living in
large cities is more than three times
as great as it is in the South. The
population living in cities of over %, 900
inhabitants increased Al per cent. be-
tween 1890 and 1900, partly by the
growth of the 124 cities of that size in
$780, and partly by the addition, during
the following ten years of thirtysix
other cities to the list. The population
of the country outside these cities in
creased between 1890 and 1900 14.9 per
cent. The $50 cities of the United States.
each of which had over $4,000 inhabi-
tants in 1900. increased in population
32.5 per cent. between 1890 and 1900; the
rest of the United States, excluding
Alaska and recent insular accessions,
increased Ill per cent.
OF the total population of 1894, 575
in Continental United States, 10, us, 312,
or 25.9 per cent. live in cities of $4,000
inhabitants or more. The proportion
of Inhabitants cf the three sections. the
North, South and West, into which the
census divides the United States, fol-
lows:
North. total population. 47,S79, 500;
population of cities of $4,000 or more,
1876, $50 or "a per cent.
South total, 24,523,527; cities of 2h,-
900 or more, 24SS, 553 or 10 per cent.
West, 4O91,341; cities of $4,000 or
more, 1,033,179 or % per cent.
The per cent. of increase of popuia-
ton living in places of sizes indicated
from 1890 to 1900, by sections, follows:
$4,000 and over, North, 42.2; South,
30; West, H.3; United States. Al.
5000 to $4,000, North, 22.7; South,
26.9; West, 179: in United States, 23.1.
1000 to 5000, North, 276; South S7.3;
West, 50.7; in United States, 36.7.
Incorporated places of less than
1000, North, 27.9; South, 444; West,
465; in United States, 80.
Rural North, IL; South, 179; West
%; in United States, ga
These figures, concludes the state
ment, show that the present growth
of population is a resultant in the
North of a very rapid growth of large
cities, slower growth of small cities
and very slight growth in the coun-
try, and a resultant in the South of
rate of growth of large cities below
the average of the country, balanced
by a growth of small cities, and an
increase of rural population twice as
fast as the average for the United
States.