Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-01-17
New orleans oottOn CONVENTION.

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Association was completed about 4
O'Clock Saturday evening In New
Orleans.
When the delegates adjourned sine
die amid the stirring strains Of q
band Of music, the 1900 or more
stalwart men who guided the delibera-
tions Of the eight SESSIONS to most
successful conclusion had every reason
for styling themselves the "Cotton
Barons Of the New South" They
have met their enemy--the specula.
tor and cotton man'pulator-on his
own field Of merciless warfare, and
delegates are now speeding homeward
self satisfied with the past years work
of the Southern Cotton Association,
aud confident that the future holds in
store for them not only living prices,
but reasonable profits on the vast
amount OF capital invested in the great
plantations Of the cotton belt. The
men whose deliberations closed in the
auditorium OF the New Orleans Pro-
gressive Union Saturday evening pro-
duced 1S,557,OOO bales in 1905; as
against S,9l9, 900 grown in India; $780,
600 bales raised in the fertile valley of
the historic Nile of Egypt; 1885, 1000
bales produced by Brazil and the
plains Of the. country dominated by
Russia's "Great White Gear" These
same farmers of the Southland are the
principal factors in keeping busy
1894 mills, l19, 127, 147 spindles, 2,5ll,-
O16 looms and employing 2,293,12l
persons. The consumption of these
1894 mills is approximately 1851, s41
bales, according to the best known
statistics collected in thirty-one coun
tries of the world, and include mills
and looms, whether in the sunny land
Of Italy, far off Turkey, cold Canada,
the Isle of Great Britain, under the
midnight sun of Norway, Oriental
China or Japan, or antipodal Austria
liza. These farmers sent from their
farms in 19O4.O5 $780,, 29s, 1888 pounds
of cotton, whose money value was
$62S. 195,359. The Southern mills took
of their cotton 2,l63,505 bales, as
against 2,2S2,l45 bales demanded by
the mills of the North. These far
mers in 19O4-O5 exported 4, 14O, 474 bales
to England 657,7Ss bales to France,
S,7A7,1O4 to the Continent, and 0,745,-
S16 to all parts Of the world. The ex-
cess of production In the South amount
ed to S74,919 bales. The Southern far
mer planted 81, 1881 acres and these
acres in 1904 supplied 1885 1856 bales,
whose average net weight was 400
pounds. The average price for the
cotton was sos cents per pounds.
Proud Of this remarkable industrial
showing the delegates are determined
to make their influence felt ia the COM
mercial and financial circles Of Ameri-
ca and Europe. These delegates pro-
pose to get fifteen cents for tho cotton
yet unsold; they propose to extend
trade relations; to cooperate with
bankers in fostering the industry
which has brought hundreds Of mil.
lions of wealth to the South; 20 push
the work Of the Southern Cotton Assoc
citation; to demand more attention and
recognition from Congress; to dictate
terms and prices to the Spectator and
manipulation Of Wall street; to estab-
lish warehouses for holding purposes;
to seek congressional appropriation
for deepening and widening the Miss
issippi river; to make the Southwest
pass of the Father Of American Waters
and inlet aud outlet for the greatest
vessels of the worlds commerce to
rehabitate the agricultural sections Of
neglected Southern farm lands, and
lastly and Of vital Importance to New
Orleans, to make 1t the Liverpool Of
the new world. These are what the
cotton men have pledged themselves
to accomplish.