The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-24
COTTON AND
ITS PRODUCTS
More Than 400 Million DOL
lars Brought to America
THROUGH ONE INDUSTRY
European Countries Are the
Chief Consumers.
THROUGH ONE INDUSTRY

Guthrie, o. T., May "a bulletin from
Washington states that cotton and its
products will bring more than 400 million
dollars into the United States from other
parts of the world in the fiscal year which
ends with next month. Last year the
/ total exports of cotton and its products
amounter to 376 million dollars, and a
statement just issued by the department
of commerce and labor through its bC-
reau of statistics shows that in raw cot
ton alone the total for the present year
exceeds the figures of last year by nearly
so million dollars, thus indicating that
the grand total OF cotton and its products
exported will exceed 40 million dollars in
value.
The products OF cotton other than tho
raw cotton fiber which so to form this
enormous total. far exceeding in value
that of any other single crop exported,
are cotton-seed oil, cotton-seed meal, cot
ton waste, cotton seed in the natural
state, and cotton manufactures. In cot
ton-seed oil and cotton-seed meal the
growth in exports during recent years
has been very great, and their exports
now amount to more than Is million dol
lars annually, while but a comparatively
short time ago the cotton seed from
which they are manufactured was consid-
cred valueless. The value Of cotton-seed
oil exported from the United States last
year was over IA million dollars. In the
present year. owing to the large home
RI nd nf q
in the demand from abroad.
The value of cotton-seed oil exported
from the United States during the past
decade aggregates round 105 millions of
dollars In 1889 the total value of cotton
seed oil exported amounted to only a
little over l million dollars. In 1890. how
ever, it was over millions; in 1895, mil
lions; by 1900 it had grown to IA mil
lions, and in 1903 it was 14l. millions.
Cotton-seed meal is another article OF
compare lively recent development in our
export trade. Prior to 1894 the amount
exported was not considered of sufficient
Importance to justify its separate state
ment the list of articles exported from
the United States. In 1895 the total was
about million dollars; in 1898, it was
s millions; in 1900 IL millions. and by
1908 had grown to 12& millions.
The European countries are the chief
consumers of both of these newly de-
veloped classes of products from cotton
seed OF the II million dollars worth of
cottn-seed oil exported in the fiscal year
1868. over 2,z million dollars worth went
TO France, over 3a4 millions to Neither
lands. nearly ls millions to Austria-Hun-
p ar1y
and about 1It million dollars worth TO
other European countries. principally the
United Kingdom. Mexico. Brazil. and
other tropical countries also take con-
siderable quantities of cotton-seed oil.
which is a substitute in many cases for
olive oil, formerly imported largely into
those countries. To Mexico the exports
of cotton-seed oil in 1893 were over l mil
lion dollars in value, and have ranged
at about that figure for several years.
Cotton-seed meal, the other recently de-
veloped product from what was formerly
considered waste material, is also chiefly
exported to Europe after supplying the
demands of the home market.
OF oil cake and oil-cake meal exported
from the United States last year. amount
ing to nearly ~ million dollars tof which
l2@. millions was from cotton seed0 AZ
million dollars worth went TO Germany.
4 millions to Belgium. 31a millions to
Netherlands, and a little less than 3i3
millions to the United Kingdom.
Cotton manufacturers from another i'm
portant class in this general group Of
cotton and its products exported The
total value OF cotton manufactures ex-
ported during the present year will fall
materially below that of last year. partly
by reason of the high price of cotton and
partly by reason Of the conditions in
the Orient. 10 which a large portion OF
the cotton clotns exported from the
United States in recent years has been
sent. Our total exports of cotton man
ufactures had never reached as much as
10 million dollars prior 10 1s77. BY IsG
the total amounted to practically IS mil
lion dollars; by 1897. to p millions; and
In 1893 to 32 millions. In the present
fiscal year the total win probably not
exceed 25 million dollars in value.
- In the nine months ending with March
the total expectation of cotton manu-
fscturers was about 2 millions below that
OF the corresponding months Of last year.
and ~ millions OF this reduction was II
the exports to China. where domestic
manufacture Of cotton Is increasing some
what and imports from India and Japan
are becoming more competitive each
year This is especially true in years
OF high prices. such as that Of Iso3 The
shorter staple cotton Of India proves very
acceptable for use In the class Of goods
largely utilized In china. and this fact
IN ha rsarfrf ~t,.yt
in our expoUs Of this class Of goods to
China in ysar OF such high prices for
cotton.