The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-10-12
COTTON CROP REPORT
Recent Enormous Consumption of the
Southern Mills
REPORT ISSUED FOR A FULL YEAR
First Census Bureau Bulletin On the
Subject Shows An Aggregate of a.
45s 994 Bales, Of Which 81 Per
Cent. Consumed At Home, Leaving
Surplus of 9 Per Cent.

Washington, Special.-The census
Bureau issued bulletin showing the
production and distribution Of the cot
ton Of the United States available
between September ], 1904, and Sep
trmbcr !, 1909, TO be l4,455 ,094 bales.
0f tins Gl per cent. was exported. 80
per cent. was used in domestic cor
sumption, leaving surplus of nine
per cent. The domestic consumption
Includes 36,776 bales destroyed by
fire.
The expectation amounted to s.
s34,g2g bales, the domestic consump-
tion 4.3lj,136 and the surplus l.3O5.-
300. OF the total 13,693,279 bales
were included in the crop of 1904 and
the remainder i'll that of 1905. OF the
quantity consumed in the United
States, 2,13S,S29 bales were used in
Northern and 2,140,151 in Soutrehn
mills
BANNER EXPORT YEAR.
In addition to the totals given 124,-
400 bales Of foreign cotton were i'm
ported into the United States during
th1 year. The expectation for the
year covered exceeded that Of anv
previous - months by ia ,452 bales
and they exceeded the average for the
past ten years by 2,3l3,94S bales.
New Orleans, with total of 2,463, ,421
bales held first rank as an exporting
point, but was close pressed by Gal
weston with 2.3SS,31S bales. Savan-
nah, Ga, with 1,290,9SD bales held
third place. The value of the total
export was $404 ,209,293.
The export of raw cotton was dis
trlhuted i'll bales as follows: To
United Kingdom, 4,043, ,999; Belgium,
lGl.l5l; France. S57.103; Germany,
2,115,672: Italy, 536,929; Russia, 125,-
1863; Spain, 2S9,6SS; other European
countries, 172,112; Japan, 324,66S;
British North America, 125 5.4O7; Mexi-
co. 1926; all other countries 9461.
SOUTH'S HUNGRY SPINDLES.
The total number of producing
spindleS in the United States is re-
ported at 24,077 ,524 of which SPILL
734 were i'll the South and 1886, ,790
in the North Notwithstanding the
great difference III the number of
spindles of the two sections the con-
sumption of cotton is practically the
same. The annual consumption Of
cotton per spindle in the Northern
mills is 81 pounds, compared with 124
pounds in the South. The difference
in the per spindle consumption indi-
Gates that the Northern mills are
spinning yarns Of very much greater
tineness than those turned out by the
Southern mills. The large output of
the Southern mills this season has
been mainly of heavy fabrics to sup
ply Il greatly increased demand from
China and the Orient.
The report shows that in % years
the production of the United States
has increased from 5,755,359 to 49,
693,279 bales, and that the total con-
sumption of cotton in this country
has increased from 1,671 1888 to 4,31S,-
92S bales. Within the last five years
the cotton-consuming establishments
of the Southern States have increased
their consumption from 1,4S3,7l1 to
2,14O,151 bales. During these five
years the Northern cotton-consuming
establishments have actually decreas-
ed their consumption by 16,955 bales,
explained by these mills being en-
gagged during this period in replacing
old machinery by more modern.