Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-15
OUR COTTON INDUSTRY
Bureau of Statistics Furnishes
Some Startling Figures Oh
Its Possibilities
GREAT PROFITS I'M SIGHT
GREAT PROFITS I'M s'eA-
When Americans Manufacture Instead
of Export the Raw Material For
tunes Will be Made in the Industry
Some Of the Bureaus Statistics
Are Given.

WASHINGTON. Feb 15.-Thc possibil-
the cotton manufacturing industry IN
mis- country AS set forth in u state
mont furnished to Il member of con-
eress by the bureau of statistics, are
50 vast as to be almost beyond com
prehension. When American manu1ac-
turers are able to convert the cotton oil
this country into finished products, IN
stead of exporting the raw material.
The profit TO the United States will De
almost incalculabe.
The figures in question show merely
the exportation of cotton manufac-
lures from Japan to China thru u term
of wears but as Japan draws largely
from the United States the raw cottoa
with which it produces the manufac-
lures i'm question: the suggestion which
hey offer is naturally an interesting
one TO us. These figures of exports
of cotton manufactures from Japan 10
China. show that the total value oil
cotton warns exported from Japan 20
China i'm 1893 was $29.5SO, and In 1913
$141l2507 and of other cotton man
ufactures in 1893 $221,1S3, and IN 1913
s2.OiS.547, making the total OF cotton
warns and finished cotton manufactur-
es sent from Japan to China in 1893
s251 1868. and in 1903. s16, 126.o54.
Meantime the quantity of raw cotton
exported from the United States TO
Japan has grown from 793.242 pounds
in 1899 to 161,6O1,219 pounds in 1900.
the value of the same being In 1893
s6s 42S. and in 1900, $12,712,6l9. The
quantity and value in 1903 We're some
what reduced by reason of the ve'y
high price of American cottons and
the fact that Japan in years OF hlsh
prices in America turns for part or
her cotton supply to India, where she
finds a shorter staple, and therefore
lower prices. The general fact. how
ever, that Japan increased her ptlr-
chase of our raw cotton from $6S,d05
in 1898 to $7.50O0OO in 1903. and in the
same period increased her sales or
manufactured cotton to China from
1851 900 in 1893 to $16.000000 in 1903.
suggests the possibilities which await
the cotton manufacturers of the Unit
ed States when they may choose to
lulIl tHe COllOll lJlOtuSNi ~ S'Ais' NSSN.i',
try into the finished state before per-
hitting it to pass to the cotton con-
Sumers of the world.
This industry. which has recently
sprung up in Japan, of buying Amer
lean cotton, turning it into the manu-
featured state, and selling it to other
countries, is. of course, merely re-
production of a process which has been
going on for many years in the older
manufacturing countries of Europe.
The United Kingdom, for example,
took in 1908 $125, 100000 worth of cot
ton from the United States, baslng this
statement upon our figures of exports
to that country, and in the same year
year exported 1922 100000 worth of
finished cotton goods, and $36.0oO,0Oo
worth of cotton yarns. Germany, In
the same year bought cotton worth
SS5.0OO,0OO from the United States, as
shown by our own figures of exports
to that country, and exported $S0,0o0,-
900 worth of cotton manufactures OF
which, ST., 100000 was finished goods
and the remainder yarns.
E,rance took i'm 1909 S35 600 900 worth