Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-04-26
Cotton Glnned In the United States.

The Bureau of the Census has just
issued the final report on the cotton
crop grown in 1904. The statistics for
1904 are accompanied by comparative
statistics for the crops of 1900, 1901, 1902
ant, 1908.
The crop of 1904, as returned by the
ginners, and including linters, is 1854
457 bales, of 500 pounds. 1t exceeds the
crop of 1908 by 3,491 1886 bales, or 1914
per cent. The largest crop produced in
the United States prior to 1904 was that
of 1893, which, according to commercial
returns, amou nted to II, ,235, 900 bales, or
15.9 per cent. less than the crop for 1904.
The average crop for the fve-year period
ending with 1908 was 9,S92, ,O47 bales, or
$50 per cent. less than the crop of 1904.
Among the cotton producing States
Texas has held the first rank for twenty
years. Its production in 1904 was $780,
GIT bales. Georgia, with production of
1850, 161 bales, was second, having passed
Mississippi, which held the second rank
in 1908. Mississippi is third and Ala
bama fourth. With the exception of
Kansas, Arkansas and Texas, all the cot
ton-producing States show larger crops
for 1904 than for any other year in which
these reports have been issued. The
States which show the most notable in
creases compared with 1908 are .Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina, the largest
increase being found in Georgia, where
the crop exceeded that of 1908 by 812,3 $50
bales, or 1873 per cent. Tho increase in
Alabama is 1875 per cent, in South Caro-
lima 45.7 per cent. and in Texas ~ per
cent. The largest crop ever grown in
Texas was that of 1900, when the State
produced 298, $40 bales more than in 1904.
The increase in the combined production
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory over
1908 is 72 per cent.
The sea island cotton crop of 1904
amounted to 104,317 bales, equal to A.
1S0, ,434 gross pounds, an increase over the
crop of 1908 of 44.3 per cent. This in
crease is distributed between three
States which produce this c. ..on-Flori-
da, Georgia and South Cal Va. The
average crop of sea island CO, IN for the
fve-year period ending with 1908 was
"a, 120,S44 pounds. The crop of 1904 is
20.7 per cent. greater than the five-year
average, and is the largest crop ever
grown in the United States, the next
largest being the crop of 1902, when the
production reached DO, Ala, ,053 pounds.
The total number of establishments
which ginned some part of the crop of
1904 was 30,337, or 92.3 per cent. of the
total number of ginneries reported.
Three States reported ever 1000 active
ginneries = Georgia, Mississippi and
Texas. The total number of the active
ginneries in the States mentioned was
Is, 4S0, or 44.4 per cent of the total, and
they ginned sos per cent. of the total
cotton production in the United States
for 1904. The census figures show that
the average number of bales ginned by
active establishments WAS 445, compared
with 338 in 1908 and 35e n 1902. The
cotton ginning industry is much more
developed west of the Mississippi river
than east of it. Texas, with i4.8 per
cent. of the number of cotton gipneries,
ginued 23.5 per cent. of the total product,
while Georgia, with 1874 per cent. of the
total active ginneries, ginned but 14.1
per cent. The crop of 1904 was ginned
in $50 counties in sixteen States.
The bulletin just issued comprises AZ
pages of text and tables, in addition to
which are presented outline maps of each
of the principal cotton producing States,
upon which the crop of 1904 is shown by
counties.
Daredevil Ride
L.. u. m