Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-11

one-half million bales of raw cotton. Last
year our exports amounted to more than
seven million bales, which. with the excep-
ton of three years. was the largest amount
of cotton the United States has ever export
ed in single year.
Another thing which is even more i'm
portant," continued DIR. Galloway. Is that
we are rapidly increasing our exports of
manufactured cotton. We are pushing our
cotton goods into every part of the world.
We sent abroad last year more than forty
million dollars worth and We shall SEND
more from year to year. 1t is this that IS
troubling the European nations. AS long as
we furnished only the raw material they
did not care, but they now look upon us as
a big competitor in the sale of the manu-
featured goods of the world We are ex-
tending our markets. not only In Europe,
but in the orient and especially in Japan.
Japan has now about 100000 spindles and
she uses six or seven hundred thousand
bales of cotton annually. large part of
this comes from the United States. AS to
our exports of cotton fabrics. our best Gus
toners are the United Kingdom. 81 ,269 600;
Germany, 81 100000; France. about $25,0 900,
and Turkey, in Europe, SGT GOO We send
more than $4,000 900 worth of cotton goods
to Canada; more than $1,700OOO worth to
Mexico and Central America; more than
81, 100000 worth to the West Indies and
about 81 100000 worth to South America.
$16,O0O,000 worth of cotton to Asia, $4,000,
600 worth to Oceanica. and 1851 900 worth
to Africa. So you see. our manufactured
cottons form small part of our national
exports"
Big Factories of the South.
where are the chief cotton factories OF
the United States?'
Until within a few years they were al
most all in the NORTH said DR.. Galloway,
but some of the biggest and best of the
cotton mills of the world are to be found
in the southern states. In 1884 the north
crn mills consumed 1 ,537, 900 bales of cot
$40 bales. Last year, only nineteen years
later. the nothern mills took 1,966 00C
bales, while the southern mills took
1,95s.OOO bales. In other words. the
within 5000 bales as the northern
mills. There are now in the southern
states more than $40 cotton mills and seven
million spindles. The southern cotton cloth
is, however, less valuable than that pro-
duced in the north. only the cheaper grades
being manufactured in the SOUTH
What kind of labor have you in the
southern cotton factores?
"Most of them are worked with white
labor. The labor is cheaper there, and as
the mills are right in the cotton fields the
cost of transportation is less"
Cotton Raising Machinery.
Can machinery be used IN the cotton
fields, DR.. Galloway"
'Tt is being used and it more and more
will be used In the future. There are ma
chine cotton pickers now made which
promise to be successful. The best IS one
invented by Mr.. Lowry the inventor OF the
round bale BY it's use one man is said to
do the work of four. If 1t proves a sue
cess, it will save thousands Of dollars to
the farmers of the south, by enabling them
to gather the crop before 1t Is damaged by
the weather This would also solve some
of the difficulties which we are now having
in the district invaded by the cotton boil
weevil.' FRANK G. CARPENTER.