The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-27
GREAT DEMAND FOR COTTON.
Other Countries Think Not and Many
Are Bending Their Energies To-
ward Raising Supply of
Their Own.

! HSilQ0lttl- MGtcli LII 'ullt'
! 1908. there was held in London an
exposition OF cotton produced IN the
colonies of Great Britain and other
continental countries, together with
the products manufactured from such
cotton. All the leading manufacture
ing nations of Europe participated III
this exposition. which attracted gen
eral attention. The movement for
increasing the cultivation of cotton
| in the various colonies was greatly
; encouraged and stimulated by the eS-
hi5it made at London.
Minister Bryan, Of Lisbon. has fur
nished this government with a copy
of the official report Of the Portu-
guese representative at the London
conference together with the official
report Of the second international
cotton congress held last June at Man.
chester and Liverpool.
! In the last thirteen years Portugal
has expended annually for raw cot
ton an average Of about $}.000.OO0
at the present rate Of exchange, and
is now consuming about $4,000 bales
per annum. The annua} average croi
in this country from 1898 to 1903
was 10. 250. 600 bales, which, it IS
declared. is not sufficient for the
needs Of the trade. and unless the
United States can keep up the sup
ply with crops as large or larger than
that of l9O+-05 which IS placed al
Is, ,565. 900 bales, there will be great
unsettling Of trade conditions.
As to America s ability to produce,
in addition to her own increasing
needs ior nun,c manufacture, enough
to supply the constantly growing for
eign demand, it is pointed ont that
the area suitable for cotton c'!ttirc
! in the United States is about 15'',o56.-
| 900 acres. about one-third Of which
is considered good, and of this one
third. 32,000,000 acres are not un'ler
cultivation. 1t is shown that in thlr-
| tv wears it is likely that the United
States will not raise more than
Eenough for her own needs. In other
| words, American manufacturers Will
take the product of all cotton grown
in the United States at that. time.
Even in FIVE years it is calculated tha,
! 1S.O0O,OOO bales annually will be nec~
essarv for the world s, consumption:
and as the annual production Is TO-
100000 bales, at present, there must
be 100000 bales more produced an
| nually, and this is made the basis for
argument for cotton culture elsewhere
than in the United States. Not TAX
! ing into consideration the land IN the
United States capable Of, but as yet
not devoted to cotton raising, inquiry
is made as to. the other countries
! where cotton may be grown. The ez-'
positions at Liverpool and Manches-
! ter we're intended to show the efforts
in these several fields to obtain a sup
ply Of cotton which. in the future will
equal the demand: England IS work
ing through the British Cotton Grow
ing association, Germany through the
German Colonial union, and France
through the French Cotton assoeia-
ton. -.
, At these expositions it was shown
that the United States had in the
twenty years from 1879 to 1899, in
creased her production from 2,4O4,-
100000 pounds to 5,795,OOO,OOO
pounds, and at the same time she In
creased her consumption from no.
100000 pounds to 1,S54,OOO,0O0
pounds. The consumption Of Great
Britain from 1899 to 1905 increased
from 1,626,O00,OO0 pounds to 2,597,-
100000 pounds, and during the same
period Americas consumption In
creased from l,s54,0Oo,0OO pounds to
2,333, 100000 pounds, so that the in
crease in consumption during the LAST
six wears was the same in both coun-
tries, namely, 177,oOO,0O0 pounds.
Throughout the British colonies
France and Germany. the keenest
watch is being kept over cotton cul-
walton in America, and it is more
than probable that during the next
few years American growers will meet
Twill, chow, conratitiOn from prGGuc-