The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-14
WILL RAISE COTTON.
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in America.

in America.
The recent visit Of several cotton
mill men OF Lancashire, England, to
the United States is apparently about
to bear fruits IS the following state
nent issued BY the department. Of
conmsrcs and labor will show:
"a sequel to the Washington cot
ton conference and the visit Of the
Lancashire manufactures to this
country last spring is the proposed
investment OF Lancashire capital, in
the rasing cf American cotton. We
are informed that two Lancashire
manufacturers will arrive in tie Unit
ed States with in a few weeks and
complete arrangements for the pur.
chase and management Of large cot
ton plantation in the South, probably
In Texas. The plan Is to adopt the
most improved methods OF cultivation,
ginning and ba!l'ng, and to ship the
cotton direct to the Lancashire mills
controlled by the promoters. There is
said to be ample capital back OF the
enterprise.
It is to be hoped 1t is said IN Eng.
land that this venture by English
manufsc. urers will ba entirely SUCCESS
ful. It's success will mean much for
the cotton trade. 'We have had 8
surteit OF precepa they say as to the
evils that oppress the cotton trade
and their remedies, all to no purpose.
The evils have erowl greater, and
these responsible for them have treat
ed al protests With contempt. What
we need now Is an example. The ex-
ample of q large plantation In the
South, producing cotton properly
balsd ahd shippsd to Lancashire and
there received II good order at the
mills would mark the beginning OF the
end of the present disgracaful methods
of baling American cotton. The e1.
issing combine of ginaers that blocks
all attempts by planters and manu-;
factures 90 i'm prove conditions might
for Tina resist even the irfuancs OF
good example, but eventually they
would be forced to adopt the inprov'
ed processes. It may be safely as
sumed shat the present methods Ct
preparing cotton for market cannot
exist permanently along OF right
methods Toe sormer have continued
because all American cotton has been
and is balsd In an equally bad way.
Tho influence Of such q plantation
on the other evils that .ca the cot
ton trade are not equally evident.
There ia no doubt, however, but that
such influence would be entirely fol
good. a large and well managed cot
ton planlotion, owned by cotton manu-
facturers, producing cotton for the
mills OF It's owners, forming q COM
ponent psrtcf one complete industry,
might net eliminate the specu!atol
from the cotton Market. bat it could
not fail to in5ic .ts to the manutao
turer refuge from the speculaso1' 1
attacks. !"
The commission that Is coming
! here to make purchases will in al
probability go OVER much OF the same
ground as 5ha5 covered by the folmsl
! commission when 1t toured the South
and Southwest In quest Of good cot
ton lands. Their route will prob2 bls
take them through North and South
Carolina an6 the other cotton grow
ing states east OF vhe Mississippi river,
with their final survey in Texas.
/ While the object Of the commission
will primarily be to secure land fol
cotton-growtng, it is said chat there
Is a possibility Of some large mills be
ing erected by them, should the COZ
ditions prove favorable. Il is kno@r
that scme of the members OF the trsi
com mission discussed tie mill builei1l 6
prtj sca with nen in the different
ssctions through which they passed
and that the amount OF dividends de-
clsred annually By some OF the mills
In the South struck them with con
siderable forcs.