The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-05-27
THE MONEY INFLOW
FROM COTTON CROP
II Brought in More Than $500,
600, 900 the Last Fiscal Year.
VALUE OF The BY-PRODUCTS
They Include Cotton->eed OH. cot
t"n->rrd Veal. Cotton Waste
aud utton seed in the
Natural state.

" as AlAr on. May ~ - ANliNl ana III.
products viii bring more than $780,
100000 into the United States from 9TH
en- parts OF the world I'm he fiscal year
which ends next month Last year the
Total export OF cotton and ita products
amounted 20 $4,000 goo. and state
ment Just issued hy the department o.
commerce and labor through its bureau
OF statistics shows that in raw cotton
aIone the total for the present year eX-
ceeds the figures of last year by nearly
$50 .oooooo thus indicating that The
grand total on cotton and its products
exported viii exceed SiC0.00000O IL
value
The Products "a Cottor.
The products OF cotton. other than
raw cotton fhor which 80 to form this
enormous total, far exceeding in value
those of any other single crop exported.
are cotton-seed OIL cotton-seed meal
cotton waste. cotton seed in the nat.
ural stale and cotton manufactures
The value OF couon-sccd on export.
ed from the United States during the
past decade aggregates a round Slo5.-
100000 In 1850 the total value 81 cot
ton-sced oil exported amounted 10
little more than 81 100000 In 1890
however IL wes over $4,000 600. IN / S95
Se.oooOo0. by 1890 10 had grown &c
Sl4.0o00o and in 1908 10 was Sl4.5O0.
OuU
Couon-seed meal is an article o.
ron M Vel
the country's export trade. Prior TO
1898 The amount exported was not con-
sidered Of sufficient importance to jus
tify ITS separate statement In the list
OF articles exported from the United
States In 1875 the total was about
Si.ooo0oo; in 1895 il was sS.00000o. in
1900. 81 900 600. and by 1909 had grown
10 SD 80. 600
European Countries Buy Heavily.
Z he European countries are he
chief consumers OF both OF these new
ly-developed classes of products of cot
ton seed OF he $4,000 900 worth OF
rotton-seed oil. exported in tho fiscal |
year 1903 more than s. 100000 worth /
went 20 France. more than S3.750.00C |
10 the Netherlands nearly 81 500 600 "a I
Aus trial Hungary. more than 81 200 o0l I
10 Germany and about 81 500 600 worth /
20 other Europeanf,ountries. principal I
" the United Kingdom. Mexico Brazil /
md other tropical countries also take 1
considerable quantities OF cotton-seed /
'il. which is a substitute ia many
asses for olive oil
Cotton manufactures form another
important class in this general grour
If cotton and its products exported
The total value of cotton manufactures
Exported during The present year will
all materially below that of last year
'artly by reason OF the high prices 81
otton. and partly by reason of con
iuons in the Orient. 10 which a large
proportion OF the cotton clothes ex-
'orted from the United States in re-
ent years has been sent
Growth OF Exports.
Our total exports Of cotton manufac
lres mad never reached as much As
lo.o000o0 prior 20 1871 BY 1857 the
otal amounted 10 practically $4,000.
we hf 1870 ~ f-l sfNNNNNt ana IN 1915. I
, SD 10000 In the present fiscal year
he total will probably no; exceed S25.-
5000 81 value
In he nine months ending with
Iarch he total expectation OF cotton
'anufaetures was about s. 0OU 600 ,ess
ian tha. OF the corresponding moaths
las. year and $500 GOO 81 the re-
icticn vas in the exports to China /
here domestice manufacture ~ cotton T,
increasing somewhat and import.
ON India and Japan are becoming
ore competitive each year This e
pecially true in years OF nigh prices.
lch as that Of 1903
The shorter staple cotton of India
-oves very acceptable for U-e in The
ass Of goods largely utilized in China
20 ibis fact explains 90 par, AZ least.