The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-13

Total Export Was s4O4. 200 .2ss.
Number of Producing SpindIes is
1886. 100 i'm the North and SPILL
734 in the SOuth-Large Output is
shown for Southern Mills-In the
Past Five Years Southern Establish
ments Have Increased. Their Con-
sumption From 1.4S3.711 to 2.14O.-
Isl Bales.
Washington, October 9.-The census
bureau today issued Il bulletin
showing the production and distribu-
ton of the cotton Of the United States
available between September l, 1904.
and September l, 1905, to be 14,455,9 1914
bales. OF this, sixty per cent. was eX-
ported, thirty per cent. was used in do
mestic consumption, leaving Il surplus
IOf nine per cent. The domestic con-
sumption includes 3G,776 bales Destroy
led by fire.
The expectation amounted to $751;
1880 bales, the domestic consumption
4,31o, 1876, and the surplus 1,3O5, 300.
of tie total, 13,693,219 bales were in
;cllded i'll the crop Of 1904, and the re-
imainder in that Of 1905. OF the guam
Itty consumed in the United States,
13S,S29 bales were used in northern
land 2,14O,1 51 in southern mills. In
addition to the totals given, 124, 469
bales Of foreign cotton were imported
into the United States during the year.
The cotton expectation for the year
covered, exceeded that of any previous
II months by 1,144,452 bales, and they
exceeded the average for the last 10
years by 2,313,94S bales. New Or
Jeans, with a total of 2,463,4 21 bales
held first rank as an exporting point,
but was close pressed by Galveston,
with 2,3SS,31S bales. Savannah, Ga,
with 1,29O,9S9 bales held third place.
The value Of the total export was
l$4O, POO, 293. The export of raw cot
ton was distributed in bales as fol-
flows:
To the United Kingdom 4,O43 900;
Belgium 161, 151; France S57, JOB: Ger
many 2%,11o,672: Italy 536,929: Russia
I125,463; Spain 2S9,6SS; other 172,112;
Japan 324,66S: British North America
l25,4O7; Mexico 1926; all other coun-
tries 9,461.
The total number of producing
ispindles in the United States is report
ed at 24,O77, 524, of which S,211, 734
were in h sOuth,a and 1866, 100 in the
north. Notwithstanding the great diff
ference in the number of spindles of
1.-THE two sections, the consumption of
cotton is practically the same. The
lannua1 consumption of cotton per spin
IDLE in the northern mills is 81 pounds,
compared with 124 pounds in the
south. The difference in the per spin
idle consumption indicates that the
northern mills are spinning yarns of
very much greater fineness than those
turned out by the southern mills. The
large output of the southern mills this
season has been mainly of heavy fab
irics, to supply the greatly increased de-
Imand from the Orient.
The report shows that in % years
the production of the United States
has increased from 5,755,359 to 1863
219 bales, the total consumption of cot
ton in this country has increased from
D, 671.3S3 to 4,37S,9SO bales. Within
the last five years the cotton consum-
ling establishments of the southern
states have increased their consump-
ton from 1,4S3,711 to 2,14O,151 bales.
During these five years the northern
cotton consuming establishments have
actually decreased their consumption
by 1886 bales, explained by these
mills being engaged during this period
in replacing old machinery by more
modern.
The worlds cotton production for
1904, entering commercial channels, was
1S,041,So9 bales. with a total consump-
ton of 15,414,9SO bales. This indicates
worlds surplus of 2,566,S79 bales. OF
the total production, 100000 bales
lwere grown in the East Indies, 1,1S7,-
700 in Egypt, and the remainder in
Brazil and other countries. Owing to
the sensitive character of the cotton
market, the report emphasizes the i'm
iportance of accurate information or
1.-THE question, and adds:
while there have been some re-
i~fusals in both sections of the country
to supply the data required by the law,
the information has as a rule been
icheerfully and promptly given; and
when the totals are compared with the
Figures of the commercial movement it
is evident that the returns made TO the
bureau of the census have been re-
markably accurate. In these cases
where manufacturers refused to give
the desired Information, statistics for
such establishments received through
reliable sources have been included in
the totals of this report"
The report also says:
'Since the inauguration of the census
reports on cotton ginning, the cotton
Icrop has been brought more complete
Ily within the purview of the statistical
method than any other farm commo-
ldity. The total production of each
lyear is now known. within a few thou